Long Borrower Poems

Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...

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How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history, 
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...

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“All Scripture is God-breathed

 And is useful for teaching,

Rebuking, correcting

And training in righteousness,

 So that the man of God

 May be thoroughly equipped

 For every good work.”

To receive anything that

Will last you have to run

Righteously...

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We all meet Friends like these and sometimes we keep them!!
Written with a bit of Jamaican Patois thrown in.

           
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Factory Recall

I looked beyond The Open Door 
into a mystical Soul Factory
There amidst  the unboxed souls
was Invisible Jim and The Ghost.
The ghost’s skin was reflective like a mirror 
allowing me to see The Lines...

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We were miserable and exhausted by the rife. 
We leave the severe planet to fight for itself. 
Be patient, though! We admit in another life. 
Will toss the earth; however, we will not strife.
 
We...

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Its bad enough with millions out of work
But many of those millions have loans
They struggle to make due to get out
With all they can gather together
Just to have enough for another day.

One job isn't enough
Two...

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Because of no exchangeable things you are
I cannot buy you, O Love

By the most beautiful fragrant flowers of the earth
I do not want to buy you, O Love

By the amorous poetic verses, erotic devoted words
I...

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Will I if I can't?

My will was mine, I'd blindly assert.
These hurting hands attached to a machine mind, 
a Martha of tasks, each feat to complete,
but scarcely succumbing to bask at Your feet.

In dominance she...

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Welcome

Some people pray in silence
Some pray out load
Some can’t pray at all
If they’re not in a crowd

Some pray for peace
Some does pray for health
Some prays are honest
And some just do it for wealth

Some times I...

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Change aint easy, 
lover and a hater times two.  
The quiet one, looking for psychedelic sound.
Who am I? The Borrower, weeping unanswered questions.
When you can’t get high enough, call the listener.
Do you hear what...

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Monopoly, game of life – play it

Monopoly, childhood board game, moves as per dice
Life, real game, moves as per the game one plays   

As  grew older, realities faced squarely
Had semblances with the...

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THE REAL YOU

I went to the cemetery to the grave today
But there's only dry bones under the blades of grass
Your remains lying in the casket

Tissue skin muscle doesn't seem to last
As all matter eventually does...

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JESTER


	I act in a quizzical manner
	Speak, like a joker
	But nobody could ever try to discover,
	That I’m just a smile-borrower

	I used everything as a sort of merriment,
	I’ll never stop though I’ll be an asphyxiating object
	But if...

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Is my awareness limited by my bad habits?
Within the absence of engine sounds I find time to sigh
I should be searching for the cultivators of my net dreams
Instead I’m buying paper for the books I...

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In the face of war
Loudly our fears drum.

The lioness ready for a feast
I heard Lucifer is angry against God
Battling to get Him to His kneels.

Blood is reigning
The blood sucker awaken
In pieces the sky has fallen
The...

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This someone you loved, died,
It is hard to find the words to describe.
I wrote a poem that might comfort you –Now-
~
To the grieving family--------

O’ what a borrower,  I am;
What a borrower, we are;
It’s hard...

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She hears it with her eyes and ears, you see it in her smile;
She hears it in the smell and say...Oh you cook so well.
And when she looks into your room;
She hears how well you...

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I am here to catch your words before they die.
Reciprocating and recycling emotions
crawling, without fuss toward my heart's chamber.
Locked, without comotion, for the remainder of time.

You are my light borrower. You wear the cast-off
from the...

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A book out from the library
Occasionally holds
A paper with a message
Or a list within its folds.

The borrower who left it
May have used it as a mark,
Reminding her whence in the tale
She needs to disembark.

I’m used...

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Oh mother mine, you're a friend to the end.
Seen you be a borrower a lender and a fixer of broken men.
You see your sons  you have grown, we are true of heart,
You see you've...

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A stitch in time could save nine that makes sense
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, that’s recompense
By hook or by crook, by the skin of your teeth, as old as the hills
You’re as...

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Quietly and late at night, they move down dim lit street
looking for that wayward car, the payments incomplete
The borrower five months behind, tries to keep it hid
won't give it up without a fight, their life...

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Your lovely,
you're lovely;
You are beyond beautiful
Lovely you are;
You're lovely;
You are gifted from God;
Holy bride Halleluiah;

And you are His and His alone;
You are God's Holy daughter;
He has leant you to me;
I am a borrower;
Together we are...

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Always look down –
You might find something - maybe even money
Never a borrower nor lender be-
You might not get something back that is dear to you 
Or it could come back with dents

Always have a...

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