Long Anil Poems

I wanted to write & testify, one-time suicidal Dr. Anil Deo, is reborn during second half-century on earth! Yes, Jesus is real to me, to revive hope and the desire to live or write, or...

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Staking Claims: For Yucatec Maya & Native Peoples

The stones of the desert cry with me
They are brothers and sisters, but no bloody kin
New hearts see just cold rocks … no warmth or charity …
Might you...

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I am a foodie, I must confess, I swim a few laps for exercise
Along come the Mollusk, and to my pleasant surprise
I have no restraint and they look so yummy
I just open my jaws wide,...

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Layli Long Soldier speaks ...
Legalese: with lots of "Whereas"

Her Lakota people make other news in praying -
She really believes in prayer as resistance

Yes, "Indians" are so very different
But I have not read, ever, they fought...

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JERUSALEM
Collaboration with Dalia Shahein (Jordan). Posted here on PoetrySoup, 04/21/2017

I, First
My Salem, my shalom, maybe yours as well -
Be well; build a well again – we’ll all be well, or
Better than before in Jerusalem of...

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OUR RESPONSE TO JESUS: MAGNIFICENT PSALMS

Glory to this confusion: man and God
So simple, and so mysterious, a Triune Godhead!
Glory, glory, glory to our glorious God
LORD and King, Yahweh and Adonai, Elohim and El-Shaddai
We all must...

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You must have heard many rags to riches stories,
this one is one such fairytale with happy ending.

Once upon a time, in a remote village,
lived a happy boy, called Manik, in a farmer family,
up until his...

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My Salem, my shalom, maybe yours as well - 
Be well; build a well again – we’ll all be well, or 
Better than before in Jerusalem of the heart 
Whose Jerusalem made Jesus weep? 
“O...

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DR. SHUSH'S POETRY CONTEST

This contest isn’t as easy as it looks
The topic is Dr. Shush, his life and books
Send in your un-rhymed senryu
Or enter your well-rhymed haiku

The judges won’t mind
Not that they are really kind...

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Today is Good Friday around the world, which even non-Christians respect, or know about. It is also the first time in history that online worshippers during Easter , outnumber in-person Church worship, and overwhelmingly so.

So,...

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It’s truly Greek to me and you
“Agape” may sound like the English, agape
I gape; are we awed by Christ loving me and you

The human in me is a swine, sloppy and greedy for love
Consumers-Supreme, like...

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Mother India
 
Each August 15th since 1947, a day of expectant waiting –
Either terror from India’s enemies and frenemies
Or the terror of weather, some natural happening
Or holiday hazards, even hospital tragedies …

This year, 2017, has...

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 Dedicated to Anil Deo and Belle Bellevue

My muse had taken a nosedive.
No inspiration whatever.
So I was inspired by two great poets,
And snapped off a leaf from a tree.
      ...

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I
Here lies a small brown man, maybe average, with heart, mixed
nationalities
Sounded and spelled AMERICAN, spoke always of Africa
nationalistically
Loved words, could not communicate career choices
realistically
Johns Hopkins Professors joined ones at Indiana University (Go Hoosiers!)
mercilessly
In noting his...

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1984 or 2017 (For Contest)

I ran as far away as I could
It predicted we'd fail, that all would ...
We humans revolt against "ought" and "should."

Orwell knew better - O well, you say!
In 1948, as one...

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When the two hearts united....
And their souls, delighted!
When love blossomed between the two....
Excitement, happiness.... And nothing else they knew....

They longed to see each other....
Counting minutes one after another....
Excitement to be together....
In good or bad weather....

When...

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Quasars (definition)  
a massive & remote celestial object, emitting large amounts of energy,   having a star like image in a telescope. Been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes, and may represent...

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 Was he wrong to suggest
“All poetry, in a way, is about death.”
He was in such earnest
I was obsessed with that research

One may write of the loss of family:
Usually a parent, more unusually of a...

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Some say you are lost
If you are not found
On their ground

Some think you are blind
If you do not find
What they find

I am an atheist who believes

The universe is a tapestry
Not a thread

The science to chart...

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UTOPIA POETRY CONTEST BY 03/28/2017

Hell cannot tell of its attractions, I assume
I searched for brochures on the internet
I even went to the Library of Congress last June!
Does heaven win merely by default?

But neither have I...

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“Forsaking All, I Trust Him,” 
Worked as an acrostic for FAITH
Until of late, some of God’s children
Smile and say, “Forsaking All I Trust Her,”
I have no personal beef with that, but I cannot concur -
Myself,...

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My Real Pearl
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Some pearls I have in life, to describe
Something I will share and something special to find
I love Jesus and I love His Life,
I follow HIM till last battle I fight
In Christ body number...

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Dear God, 

Your imagination...they created...
Your thoughts into life...they translated....
You gave me life and sent me into this world...
They honored your wish and gave me birth.


They nurtured the seed that you sowed...
Treated me as a blessing...

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Weaver birds near Escombe, where I was raised ...
Doing their weaving with palm leaves, cut precisely
With little beaks, for bare Acacias across the yard ...
Now nests like fruit: wide downturned mouths - not for hospitality...

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This poem was inspired by “MOUNTAIN Senryuor Haiku series 022021”
 Written by: Anil Deo - who received poem of the day 14th November 2021
Instapoetry
If leaves on trees revealed poetry
What a harvest there would surely be
Ripe...

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