Long Atonements Poems

Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]

K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
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There lives a woman in the West of Arira 
To whom life denied the rights to live
The woman alive, but short of living
The life, like periwinkle shuts its doors
The troubles her children will inherit
To an...

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Sun, moon, stars, and universe are captivations,
Scenes, sceneries, lands, landscapes are activations;
Like a child, at each lovely scene, I do wonder,
Today, to a certain concept, I surrender..!
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While third-degree punishments of severe beating,
Depriving prisoners - ...

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Let go -  and fly
Every morning Rising Like Displaced ether 
Merging into the miracle of life
Such grandeur I cannot guess 
Why We are blessed this way
To wake not once,, But twice. 
First with life...

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Crimson robed closed eyes
in the Holy See
	that don’t say

Upper chamber veiled deceit — 
A wizard wand wave
in the Sistine Chapel cache cave

Young boys’ virgin olive oil innocence
sacrificed on the sunken altar
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MY COUNTRY
bear my heart above your snare dear friend.
let us daily cluck than the daily nourishment of my church.
your works in the past have blown this land.
with no cane in your hands our boys are...

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Who remembers subway token, 
Nickel, penny, silver dollar
Man who wrote his inuner story
Was he stranger to the glory?

Moonlight dust and darkness blurry
Lipstick lost its cherry color
Love transformed into tradition
Havoc mirrors intuition.
  
Acts of God correct...

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Written: June 26, 2023
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The sun is alive, and all creatures are awake.
Even the green leaves seem to be breathing.
And the air is crisp, cool, and pure for our sake.
Little black and gray birds sit on...

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My heart is overwhelmed with the burden of what is to come.
Death or life non can declare,
For our hands are tight in that which we love doing.
I'm in regret for creating man,

The declaration of the...

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It is such a lovely thing.
Through rain and sun it will bring.
Though mildly sad when they cling.

Cling to the lost.
Deny the cost.
Sadness over what it caused.

It is a lovely thing.
Oh it is such a lovely...

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I look in the mirror,

I gaze at my eyes and see my soul,

No longer a pure shimmery white light I once had as a child,

Now it is stained with red ink,

Absorb inside my skin,

Like water...

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Not even the shadow of its massive brick walls
Stands sentinel over the place where Ur once stood;
Gone the sound of trumpets in the banqueting halls,
Long decayed the temples framed in fragrant woods.

Its proud people, among...

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*Image of Sun by A Shared Soul.

The Fifth of July
(Pondering A Newness)

A gold sovereign wakes, dimly rises
afar, a relic of sorts once revered the
world round, except occasions when 
a quondam ebbs loyalty, ergo, limbo.

Exchanging trenches,...

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On this loft I place my head. 
Lost in thought and deep in heart.
Not of a thing for glorification
But that which has gone
Beyond spirituality itself.

Despite all atonements made
To appeased the gods of the earth.
Even medications...

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I remember places
Sunny places
On a road that never
Seemed to end
A long lost story
A radio glory
That was without
End.
And I sit and sigh, again.

Sharp remembrances
Long lost chances
A day when I could
Have held your
Hand.
And I sit and laugh,...

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