Long Bemuse Poems

Yes, the title says it all, says it all
I will not make a fall while I stand tall
I won’t be pushed down by gravity still
I will make sure that I am your windmill

Dementia won’t stop...

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TIME WILL TELL

A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
 Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
 Quiet corner of the galaxy. No foreseen surprise to bemuse

The ruling committee were in contented...

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16th & 28th may 2012.
By: SASHI PRABHU (ZEAUOXIS) 

A fortnight back, an evening drove me to Sernabatim shores,
To calm my mind’s fury that was churning galore.
There, I listened silently to what the ocean waters were...

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IDENTITY

My Identity’s in question.
Who am I?
What am I doing here on earth?
Oh Jesus, tell me why?
It’s difficult to understand.
My query is “Where will I land?”
I sometimes feel in party mode
And then I crack.  A...

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I live a little more, when i am with you.
Irritates you,frstates you,
Crazy enough ,naughty enough,
Forgets the populace when i am with you.

I say a little more when i am with you.
It was silent crowd,now silence...

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I live a little more, when i am with you.
Irritates you,frstates you,
Crazy enough ,naughty enough,
Forgets the populace when i am with you.

I say a little more when i am with you.
It was silent crowd,now silence...

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I live a little more, when i am with you.
Irritates you,frstates you,
Crazy enough ,naughty enough,
Forgets the populace when i am with you.

I say a little more when i am with you.
It was silent crowd,now silence...

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Oh thorn of my heart,
Why do you linger,
You raptured on the ramparts,
With gentle coos to bemuse and beleaguer,
My antagonist persona of strangling vines and petrified bark,
Entranced by your words of amber,
I found solace in your...

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* A collaboration with the wonderful poetess Subhadra Naryann. Please check out her heartfelt poems here on PS.

In transcendental dreams a lover's voice
seduces from beyond a distant star.
Enchanted by her song I face this choice-
to...

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A fledgling reporter discovered the story of a lifetime
Tim O’Hara came upon an alien aircraft that had crashed
He took pity on the sole survivor who’d committed no crime
Helping him out of the strange orb that...

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Bully Rules


Pick your targets carefully
Soft and easy
Gentle and less inclined
To fight back

Choose them wisely
Look for the touch of timidity
Some frail weakness
Or physical oddness

Manage the brow beating
With loud and threatening words
To drown down
The quieter voices

Swagger self-assured
Before...

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Behind a frozen glass window I peer,
but not for long despite the pending thunder,
to spur an inner gnawing  gumption,
I turn a chilly doorknob,
with great stealth born of winters  past,
sleet-ridden gusts, swaying tree leafs,
slippy...

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Whispers of Light color the Night in lifeless hues
Musical Notes arrayed in soft Quotes for a muse
Filling up Lives with captivating Archives in cues
For moments of Bliss, feels like a Kiss to bemuse

Gentle Insights soften...

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That transfixed in bliss, God may uplift soul,
conscience urges presence to heed love's beat,
to imbibe rapture, all scriptures extol.

Awaking from stupor being life's goal,
void of stillness invokes magnetic heat,
that transfixed in bliss, God may uplift...

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There's a river that twists in the mind
that I plunder and ravish with sieves,
on crusades to the summit of rhyme
where my Phoenix of tropes and schemes live.

In a war to free diction's fair Queen
where the...

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I Write-
poems      for brouhaha contests-
perhaps of love
or nature or some gobbledygook interesting

but, I am left gobsmacks and dumbfounded 
'cause I took one point blank and sharp
to the heart . ....

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I read other people's poetry and I wonder to myself, 
Where do they conjure up their massive vocabulary?
The words I don't know, I write down; and I have quite a list.


Some of these English words,...

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“Life ephemeral, death inevitable 
Soul eternal, so dear heart, be free from fear”

Loving hearts entwined, tenderly holding hands in seeming eternity
A flicker in space, gong of death, rudely interrupting delusion reverie
Within the lucid dream, attachments...

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As mind-body grows, our soul knows,
truth of being, so gently flows
but then fears and desires bemuse,
so inner light no longer glows.

Succumbing to lower mind’s ruse,
we strive and toil, both win and lose 
but seeing how...

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You are my soul's hinterland Huntress
methodical in seduction
beautiful in bashful entrapment,
capturing this man's mania for erotic offering
leading me into open fields of forbidden fantasy,

Disrobe my desire, denude my fire
that spires hot for you,
you are my...

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“Close your eyes, Adam”,
But he didn’t understand,
“Cover with your hand”,
Insisted the first woman.
 
“I don’t enjoy this game”,
Said he, “you try to bemuse,
Choose other or I will refuse”,
Unable to see Eve’s shame,
 
“This is not...

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DESIGNED WHILE RECLINED

Would you like to stay up late watching T.V. with me?
Perhaps we two could share a shard of star shine
Would you like to sit on a sumptuous sofa while we soothingly recline?
On a...

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I hold my breath, impatiently
anticipating spring
and dress the sky delicately 
in stars your bright eyes bring.
Spring days are flushed with love’s warm glow,
the nights untamed by sparks.
Our rhythmic dance for two bestows
full moon to light...

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Gaze deeper into the peaceful midnight sky,
aren't the diamond-shaped stars beautiful angels' eyes?
They turn everywhere and with their cheerful smiles,
they immediately hush the loudest baby's cry.  


Feel safe when staring at them, awesome thoughts...

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Tyrants of the Ruling Sun

Let the universe swallow my slaving soul
As the sorrows surround the sinking shoal
The light lingers before it falls on my face
Edacious echoes engulfed will embrace

Sisyphean stars of sadness will defuse
The barbarians...

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