Lapses Poems - Poems about Lapses

...___________ The dejected heroine stands up to her beloved’s deceit, suffers a slew of mental states: despair, deliberation, weakness, weariness, and indignation. ______________ Despair writ......

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... This urge to exhale without restraint into the softness and hardness of days heightens; my own center accepting those lapses when our frail bodies can readily perish amidst borrowed......

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...Written for all people who are sick of being treated badly. Particularly kind people like Lightworkers and Empaths. If they don't appreciate your presence, you may need to teach them about your a......

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...the steady light of a white votive candle reflected and amplified in highly polished brass symbolises devotion talents never to be hidden under a bushel but the secular world isn’t privy to ......

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...I couldn’t hear anything for a few minutes. I tried to read their lips, but they morphed. It was strange. We all get tired but… Not everyone has lapses in time. They don’t stare in the mirror fo......

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...At this very moment coolies screamed, ‘train', We scampered packing up our bags and bales, A long-awaited train’s a certain bane, But this one turned a boon, such were the tales, An English g......

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...To office when I rushed to ask old Khan, To tell me meaning if at all of all, And what I learnt from the old man was this: A story of countless unrequited, Unfulfilled longings, lurid flames ......

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...A pair of slave girls waved chamar to thee, As diamonds flashed with light of lamps well lit, A king of kings must have fallen to knee, To strip out bejewelled shoes from thy fair feet, While......

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...As I was set to go out on my horse One eve, despite pleads to stay from my course, Prone I was to take my hat from the rack, A whirlwind crested from the dusty tract, Lifting dead leaves from......

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...Let me not delve deep on what panned out thence, The gloom of nights deepened still further dense, And there was time I felt a puny pawn, My wanderings meandered when till dawn— A pawn being ......

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...With trembling heart, as an attempt I made To leap across, he woke up with a start, The sword fell from his lap with a sharp clang, A terrifying scream when made me jump, I saw me leaping fro......

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...I saw no one but felt a gentle nudge, As I woke up, she uttered not a word, But beckoned, gravity of time to judge, To follow her— wordless like a mute bird, I got up but saw no soul save wha......

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...Newspapers read and a grand dinner done, I put out a large lamp awake like Moon, And stretched into my bed wishing deep sleep, Some stars twinkled through the open window That framed in nearb......

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...In time when night turned to dawn, I could see, It all appeared like sheer fantasy. Light-hearted, I put on my office hat, And hurriedly in my horse carriage sat To drive away myself to sink ......

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...I felt a sharp thrill in my heavy heart, But hardly knew if that tip of a dart Was caused by delight, fear or curious mind, And felt an eerie, strong urge truth to find, But naught was seen b......

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