God breaking griefs chain
Things are a mess, not because they had to be but because familiarity outranks togetherness. Corner wall has cobwebs, the bed not made in months. Curtains taped over trapping any light out of the room. The shower handles rusted. The fans on high causing the peeling wallpaper to tear more. You can't see the floor
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Categories:
griefs, december, deep, god, grief,
Form: Free verse
SUFFERING PAIN GRIEFS HURT DEFINED I WAS-
SUFFERING PAIN GRIEFS HURT DEFINED I WAS-
Suffering pain griefs
Hurt I was defined
To inflict with mental pain: Wounded
Was seriously hurt within my physical self
You're hurting my arm!
To do substantial soul harm so: DAMAGED
Caused emotional pain or anguish to: OFFEND
Never meant to hurt, placed in remorse
Got feelings so I hurt
Detrimental to: HAMPERRED
Charges of graft soiled chances of
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Categories:
griefs, absence, depression, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
Faiz Ahmed Faiz Translations
These are English translations of Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose name is also frequently spelled Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
Last Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart ...
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens,
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts,
as a patient suddenly feels better, for no
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Categories:
griefs, heart, love, memory, night,
Form: Verse
Rhaspody
You hardened griefs robed in base linens red,
Whence cascade your endless prickings sore?
Each searing tear squeezed from low eye wet,
Breeds more noxious throbs that come and go.
Once when sweet relief your brutish whips
With belated solace and little mercies clips,
I mistaken think all of your wild rages gone;
Past ill turns now-free
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Categories:
griefs, allegory, allusion, fear,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Yesterday's Griefs Are Today's Joys- Lune
Yesterday's grief, today's joy
through a gloomy night
twilight tears
turn to morning dew
Kelly's lune- 5/3/5
Inspired by pic#1
Written August 2nd, 2015
For contest "Pretty little lunes" by Andrea
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Categories:
griefs, blessing, hope,
Form: Verse
Its Leaves,Their Griefs
Autumn oak sheds its leaves to live,
Birds that thrive in leaves begin to grieve.
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Categories:
griefs, autumn, bird, tree,
Form: Crystalline