Long Commonest Poems

Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...

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                Interview with an Angel

After a long surgery brewed in urgency,
I lie supine with the body pining with fury
With eyelids...

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Adultery is an amiable adulation 
Excessive praise and admiration..! 
Relationship with love outside marriage is divine
Relationship without love inside marriage is un-divine..!!  

Though we all value love
Still we engage with wow
In extra marital affairs...

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Silver and gold are the deceiver.

The Material World is maya, is illusion.

(Succor and destruction, the glittering 

night turns outside the poor, beleaguered poet's basement window.)

He carefully sets his life's work --- a steamer trunk 

filled...

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Two thoughts come to mind this morning.
The deficiencies in our systems of governance–local, global–
and the first two pages of The End of Faith
in which he mistakes acts of war for religious acts
but recognizes understanding the...

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LONG LONG AGO. I JOURNIED TO THE VILLA OF TAFT. TO MY SURPRISED, I BEHELD 
THIS PERPETUATING SIGHT.  SHE HAD LONG SILKY DEEP BROWN LOCKS, THAT SURELY, 
REVEALED HER NOBILITY.

SHE WAS THIS RADIANT AND...

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The poem requires a mind
that finds meaning, even divination, 
in language. Non-fiction, 
up to academic standards, demands
evidence. Nothing less will do.
Most of us read fiction and this
needs a taste for action, motivation.

Lately, as have you,...

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Now we are breathing and living here.
But anytime we have to quit this sphere,
So, have maximum control of life’s gear,
And to solid values, we must adhere.

Fill your heart with the elixir of love.
Champion the cause...

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It’s, for me, not nature’s just one aspect or the other;
But, each creature of nature is greater than the other.
An ant moving unnoticed under any leaf or flower,
Rolling food, even under feet of animals much...

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JAMES PHRASIS
AN INMOST SOUL AGLOW
Art,a universal spirit with
many distinct manifestations
with spontaneous productions.
The human genius of inward
attraction sheds divine splendour
with infinite riches,to generate
a ray of activity as an idea or
conception in the mind.Art is
positive,a substantive majesty,
an...

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In the dark
Beyond the reach of light
When the day is clothed in black cover
And color, height and size exit the stage
When all, without exception is levered
By the highest commonest decimal of nudity
Devoid of illusion of...

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In the sunset eve of my life,
A recurring thought plagues my mind:
How can I, as a parting soul,
Discard my past and leave behind
My shame, like shoes put off in porch,
Pain, prejudice, like clothes worn out,
And...

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Dust
by Michael R. Burch

Flame within flame, 
we burned and burned relentlessly
till there was nothing left to be consumed.
Only ash remained, the smoke plumed
like a spirit leaving its corpse, and we
were left with only a name
ever...

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Observe

When you think you have beauty in your life and it is taken
When you think a world is born of your own minds eye creation
When lies are the commonest words spoken without deprecation
When the dark...

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