Hair In Glare
...
Traditional Indian hair composition
of a girl gets attraction
being curly and long
and that's the criterion.
Inheriting my maternal gene
I was proud to have
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Categories:
habituated, hair,
Form: Other
The Soldier’s Covenant
...A wind-induced smile greets me. Cradling the baby’s head, floccose like a ripe raspberry; I’m both filled with wonder and dread. The fragrance of the care products is a stark contrast to the latibule...
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Categories:
habituated, baby, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Date
...The Date
Growing up you are forced to learn the dates
Write in your notes book today’s date, , learn your birthdate and know each festive date
Then some dates turn into annual celebratory d...
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Categories:
habituated, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Hemmed in by belief
...Born into a culture,
conditioned by belief,
we pray as we are told,
deepening delusion,
from birth till we grow old.
Born into a culture,
following ritual,
we trust the holy book
but if we ...
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Categories:
habituated, faith, religion, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of ti...
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Categories:
habituated, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product
eternally preserved within
annals, chroni...
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Categories:
habituated, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Portrait Or How To Be Both Happy and Sad
...Dead to the world
he turned to face the wall,
it was an interesting wall,
it had a painting
of his semi-naked ex-wife
hung upon it.
Usually that wall picture
made him both sad and happy,
bu...
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Categories:
habituated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Zen Mode
...habituated to joy currents
we encourage bliss magnetism
to dance within our body as it likes
but it's pain that we choose to resist
and therefore feral residue yet remains
within fee...
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Categories:
habituated, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Tribute To Every New Poem
...Here on poetrysoup, the newest poem,
pops up on-screen
like the latest off-shoot, or newborn babe
or like a newest floral bud,
in the orchards of poetry.
Or like a fresh wave of words
crashing...
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Categories:
habituated, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Habituated In a Rain-Spell
...Habituated in a rain-spell
Crowned which lesson to bide
Is with relief, as bright-faced
Sky-bursts the other side
Bear, too, this short episode
Down-weeping, for sorrow
Can you, in just the s...
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Categories:
habituated, rain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
The Melt
...December did not call him out
to the creek,
it was a prod from a walking god
whose legs had grown stiff.
The softening stream is smoky,
a recuperating sun is unlocking the frozen,
slivers and...
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Categories:
habituated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dynamic Stillness
...Bound to form, habituated to conditioned patterns of experiential thought and aspirational imagination interpreting sensory signals, yet recognising the inherent limitation of such stuporous indulgen...
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Categories:
habituated, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
Great Transitions
...Great transitions became part of human experience
after we gave up on daily nomad lifestyle,
perhaps too bohemian
to have ever actually existed
out of nutritional nurturing choice
As contraste...
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Categories:
habituated, appreciation, earth, health, moving
Form: Political Verse
When You Will Be Free -Waqt Jo Miljaye Tmhe
...When u will be free we will meet sometime
If not on land then somewhere in sky
Your hesitations and the way you tried
Your every movements dwell in my eyes
All those nights all tho...
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Categories:
habituated, crazy, death, feelings, grief,
Form: I do not know?
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
(thus forever experiencing craving to eat cheese)
Nothing but gridlock traffic
(far as thee eye could see)
heading east on Schuylkill Expres...
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Categories:
habituated, anxiety, books, childhood, creation,
Form: Bio
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