Shikata ga nai
When the twinkling trust
of tamarind tides,
cascades in catastrophes
and turmeric-tinted tulips
become a treason for sun temples ~
I slowly drift like a diluted drop,
ruffled in the consciousness of Nyx,
where the nefarious nightglows
unfurl a midnight rose-glazed moon,
resting in thunders of the third eye
and our spirits are but ~
a shimmering mirage
sequined with glittering glaciers,
and refracted through
those
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Categories:
ga, dark, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Shikata Ga Nai
“Shikata ga nai” is a Japanese term meaning “It cannot be helped.”
Please journey with me as I attempt
to be a small change needed in this world.
It is so much easier to look the other way,
or hurl insults at the homeless standing on the median,
sign in hand, begging for change.
Compassion should be first and foremost, not
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Categories:
ga, change, family, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Shikata ga nai- POTD
Time speeds away unmindful,
ages added on to eons,
piling changes on change,
it moves on,
seldom posing lull and loll.
With the current rushing swift and fleet
we race past from old to new
from times primeval to times neoteric
watching the ceaseless chain of births and deaths
tasting life's vicissitudes of joy and pain
In this unwinding circuit of
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Categories:
ga, change, identity, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Shikata Ga Nai
“This is love: to fly toward a secret Sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi
Life can be a pilgrimage through rainless moors
and solemn seascapes draped
in mists of soundless mayhem,
where bleeding butterflies reflect
the fading stars etched with
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Categories:
ga, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Trails of Sanity
The Trails of Sanity
Why do I care if the disturber carries on
Why is it I cannot just wait it out, bide my time
Be more mindful, try and bond
Embrace what I don’t understand
Welcome the scorching taste in my mouth
I wait, I watch, and watch and wait
what seems a millennium
The afterglow of embers still burn
Just sit tight…
The
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Categories:
ga, change, character, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Shikata ga nai
In an old bus, patience thinned by
midnight
As bitterness drifted long, feeling bleak
Wiping hours with restless air in
dark light
Not a robin cooed through skyline's
mystique
Finding unrest from a breeze in dull
shade
Where time slept with eyes open, a pale
flow,
A peasant beside
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Categories:
ga, change, character,
Form: Sonnet
Shikata Ga Nai
The world I used to love seems upside down.
I use my phone, and I get a robot.
Oftentimes I just hang up with a frown.
The tempers of stressed folks can get so hot
good manners seem to have walked right out the door.
Why aren’t people thinking their actions through?
Must films use nasty words and so much gore.
Profanity
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Categories:
ga, society,
Form: Sonnet
Shikata Ga Nai
Pervasive personal questions people ask,
shredding to shards what truly is me.
The pieces are of no use to them though,
the effort seems at times
to stem from veiled spite,
incisive curiosity or even subtle affront.
I forcefully flinch to introspect,
ask myself why I’m under their prying lens,
and don’t answer.
Caustic comments people often make
on the manner I behave,
that
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Categories:
ga, character, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Shikata Ga Nai
Shikata ga nai !
I won't lie
Dear, I am crushing
on you ,
My yearnings are rushing .
My passion is thrashing.
Romance is flashing.
Nothing new !
Quite
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Categories:
ga, desire, dream, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Shikata ga nai
“What the heart can’t speak of, poetry does.”
Quote- Poets own
I wish I were the who I used to be
Before I began with anxiety
So much has happened to stir fear and dread
That stops me sleeping peacefully abed.
Once I was as joyful as one could be
Till worry came and stayed inside of me
I smile through each
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Categories:
ga, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Shikata ga nai
You say you're leaving me now?
This cannot be! Why? How?
I cannot say goodbye.
Tell me what you want from me.
I'll be what you want me to be.
Give me one more try.
Still, you walk out of the door?
For time to grieve, I implore.
I need time to cry.
Now, I have things
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Categories:
ga, break up, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
ga, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis
Categories:
ga, word play,
Form: Epigram
Shikata Ga Nai
Some things cannot be changed.
However, you need not react;
It is nonsensical to do so.
Keep your focus on the things you can change
And let the things that you cannot change go.
Take time to let them roll off your back
And stay peaceful.
Getting injured cannot be helped with cries or screams
And requires the positivity of focusing on rehabilitation.
Naturally,
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Categories:
ga, wisdom,
Form: Acrostic
Categories:
ga, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
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