Long Charioteer Poems

glanced at one last rose in my garden!           
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Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, courageous of heart, father of warlike Victory, able ally of Themis and Divine Law, dauntless defender...

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II

for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...

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What is the true meaning of Yoga?

The understanding of Yoga as a physical and mental practice is widely observed by people all over the world. There are training schemes and centers for the ones who...

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Greater Consciousness - For Contest

A bird at its will, soaring high in the sky
Symbolic of liberty for the worldly we
But actual spirituality throws different light
It crosses all frontiers of worldly delight!
The aroma, the taste, the...

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With darkness scintillating in my soul,
And the seven of wands in my hold,
I take up the challenge upfront,
Paper planes ready to fold.

The sea washed away my sandcastles,
But isn’t history made of the remains?
Lies may plunge...

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A Plea to the Charioteer

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I suppose since time immemorial - Dads have provided tutorial,
Doing their best to strive - To teach their kids how to drive.
Though Dads were never all that keen - Kids pestered him once a teen,
To...

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written by Mpho Leteng (Botswana) and Donald Kuutsi (Zimbabwe) 

When sunrise whispers secrets sweet,
My undying spirit of determination rise,
Like morning dew, my curiosity awakes,
Demanding answers for the puzzle that awaits.

The shadows of the earth, they...

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Perusing the tomes of esoterica,
One truth I've learnt indeed,
Not one book contains it all.
There's always more to read.
Axiom mixed with allegory,
Abstract salt and misty sulphur.
Is this that famous alchemy?
I'll find the quintessence myself.
I wonder will...

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Lion 'bout grabbing tiger by tail

Holy mole lee
watch out fowl, balladeer
look out... i.e. donkey kong
primate doth share
footloose slothful writing,
essentially swiftly tailored hare

reed styled mountebank
gets made by mice elf,
an imperfect triangulated square,
while "fake" charioteer
looses neigh scent...

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Face the west. 
Face the stone and turn your back on your chains.

A wraith you arrived, but now life overflows with every ragged breath.

Let your heart brim with resolve, your eyes with the mountain and...

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Hail, O Storm Bringer
Your lightning cracks up the sky
As you roll onward

Your thunder pounds Earth
Trumpeting your arrival
Storm Charioteer

You ride the cold wind
Dark grey clouds your chariot
Winged horses flying

Torrents of cold rain 
To soak a dry,...

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Cupid's Joyride

Emitting star, meteor, act alike,
Some piece gleams a sky, oust our atmosphere,
Bow bends, arrow aims our sky ere a strike,

Cupids arrow tips when pierced are dreamlike,
Heirs beguiled senseless on a plains calm mere,
Emitting star,...

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Dip the light of happiness has come TODAY!
When darkness comes sun run it!
The charioteer Arun anger comes from the red!
Then the whole world bathed in happiness!
The logo sentinels Banti awake!
Dip burning in the minds of...

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A Liquified Desert

A peacock glissades as a trail triggers,
an ambience of turquoise and chartreuse,
for it sparsely spreads as its glass mirrors,
neath a ceiling stain aquamarine blue.

Ghostly strands of lit fingers, it searches,
for soulless wanderers, offers...

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at the other side of river 
are the stolen roots of healing-moon-giving trees 
left by wayward wind. 
my skin whispers—
wind is traversing to reach the corn field of druid 
for another robbery;
that it’s a good...

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In the closing days of Rome 
when the end was drawing near,
There appeared at the cities edge 
a noble charioteer. 

He gazed down from atop the seven hills 
at the city’s crumbling glory,
And let his...

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Yon there, the charioteer of Sun
Heralds the arrival of dawn,
Seen dawning her demur more smiles
That spread on to far spatial miles.
She inches close with a pleasant face,
Her beau, Sun, to embrace,
Ever so slowly baring her...

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Once in a while my brainpan looks alike
a hackney carriage full of hackneyed clichés
and tired words. In times like this, my psych
advised the psycho to unharness wishes,
to burn the carriage down, to make love
to the...

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REASON


“…For what is seen is temporary,
but what I see is eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18
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Oh, Reason,
You wise charioteer of
Our senses,
Firmly into your
Hands hold my
Perception’s bridle
And guide my galloping
Insight
Onto the veiled
Path of reality that,
Among myriad trails of
Phenomena unfolds
Undetected...

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