HUNGER UNFED
...HUNGER UNFED*
"He satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good." Psalms 107:9 (NEHB)
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**I am a hungry soul starving for m...
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Categories:
lecturer, 12th grade, addiction, food,
Form: Free verse
My Hair
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As a teenager, I was so lean and lanky.
My mother worried over my physical stature.
She believed that all the nutrients in my diet,
were rapaciously devoured by my hair.
From childhood ...
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Categories:
lecturer, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Other
Who Are the Politicians
...I chuckle soft when people fume,
And blame the lot in suits and gloom.
“You see those leaders? All a scam!”
But who’s still selling free yarn?
Was it not your own cousin’s name,
On that campaign...
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Categories:
lecturer, africa, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Wasteland
...Like the dead fossils of the once tyrannic dinosaurs laid bare into the diminishing soils of the earth, is what the aging world appears to seem like, the battle for survival pride and honour from the...
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Categories:
lecturer, age, anger, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
a warped tree edited
...A Warped Tree
Today, when not arguing with Walter the Jew on Facebook
the ambiance in the house was surprisingly calm since
I got a key to my study in peace to read my latest collection
and found...
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Categories:
lecturer, adventure, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Bellamy on botany; then pffft'
...Ernest working, ethical man..David Bellamy!! not at all overstated
And grand, a speech impediment, did not hold him back
A lecturer at Durham, he taught many to track. The plants
And blossoms; tha...
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Categories:
lecturer, appreciation, betrayal, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Ahmad Faraz translations 2
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No Explanation! (I)
by Ahmad Faraz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Please don't ask me how deeply it hurt!
Her sun shone so bright, even the shadows were burning!
No Explanatio...
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Categories:
lecturer, angel, body, hurt, love,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
lecturer, appreciation, teacher,
Form: Etheree
Milly Molly
...Milly Molly
1. Milly Molly - brown-eyed, kinky-haired she was, seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. She had so many dreams, but love was not one of them until she met him.
Wis...
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Categories:
lecturer, devotion, for her, future,
Form: Free verse
A Poet Plus Mathematician PS
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A Poet Plus Mathematician
Basically Mathematician
yet poetry and rhythm of poem
embedded in mind.
Analytic approach
in every poem gets priority.
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Categories:
lecturer, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
a warped tree
...A Warped Tree
Today, when not arguing with Walter the Jew
on Facebook or Twitter
the ambiance in the house was surprisingly calm since I got a key to my study in peace to read my latest collect...
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Categories:
lecturer, absence, africa, allegory, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Best Guest Lecturer Ever
...He is distinguished they said
And they were not wrong
But what is he doing up in the day?
Aren’t owls nocturnal?
Mr. O is not your ordinary fowl
We attended his lecture
He taught us about owls
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Categories:
lecturer, 10th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Changed Life
...CHANGED LIFE
Just by chance once I got acquainted
with a Bengali Writer and Novelist in a festival.
I had special admiration about his writings
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Categories:
lecturer, appreciation, memory,
Form: Prose
My Doxology
...My doxology moves up the roof
Hastens highly, and highly with its proof
As the crop of the counting days
One by one in all ways
I don't want to be an ingrate
Just like that of bandit
So,...
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Categories:
lecturer, appreciation,
Form: Other
Passing By
...You defy belief
Thanks dear
I mean, seven in the morning, and you’re sober
Pub went on fire, early night
Someday you will die a lonely man
My God, that philosophy degree has done you good
Why, ...
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Categories:
lecturer, desire, drink, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
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