Long Consigns Poems

K167 and K168 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[Here, again, in these two couplets Thiru-Valluvar is having the time of his life making his followers dread the consequences of what he...

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TO ACCLIMATE ACADEMIA - SOCIAL THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Once God confused the languages, humanity processed out to form religion.
Yet, creation had given us our own separate places
WHEREFORE, the Berlin Wall was placed to confront differences in opinion.
Was...

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The USA is not perfect
  never has been
    never will be 

Unlike Russia, which has
  ‘no alcohol problem’ 
     ‘no civil disobedience’
    ...

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Journey Journal Page
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS
By Leon Enriquez


New year bright
So set your sights
On living light 


New year hopes
So frame your scope
Sage, fool or dope


New year sighs
Goodwill to try
Moments now ply

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New year thoughts
Nice fragrant lot
Kind play and...

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Sunrise, Oh aural hymn of spirituality,
Vibrant in it’s splendour and magnificence,
Sending nocturnes to daytime slumber,
Bathing life to a yawning earth.
 
Piercing the day’s birth with colours and hue,
The Master’s tableau, a glorious canvas,
Fiery paints, swirling...

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Our thoughts suspect, if rooted in desire
Swirled in the storm, monk alone stands erect 
Oh hermit! Let love set our heart afire
All ego borne cravings, lead to lament

Desires precede thought, which we then project
Seeming reality,...

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He keeps himself confined,
to bluster now, and remonstrate
the struggle being more than he can bear.
Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from
the sweat of his own making to a glimpse
of the immortal, just a glimpse, but not
the...

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When all there is might seem a mess, 
Adrift, far out to sea
When all there is seems somehow less
Than what it ought to be
We cannot know, but we can guess
We are the fantasy.

As planets move...

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I sit and watch
Contentment seizes --
Magic happens


Pathways within
An unseen mind --
Manipulates madness


Logic questions sense
Molehill reservations --
Rapture says nothing


Re-discover pulse
In tired ways --
Let zest escalate


Time comes and goes
Breezy as the zephyr --
Cool tonic water


Opinions stacked
Feedback confronted...

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Falling leaves
Paragraphs wind blown;
Telling a story

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Two carrot cakes
Different recipes;
Delightful outcomes

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House work calls
Busy with home work;
Fastidious hands

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Watch what happens
Random rain wets;
Harsh heatwave irrigates

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Yes once again
That time of year;
Haze adds colour

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Geopolitics confers
Conflict confronts calm;
Uneasy peace

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This great stretch
Sea...

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Purpose firms act
With steady poise,
Passion with tact
Can manage choice.


Motive and sense
Seed a sure fate,
Go beyond tense
To live fond date.


Song and story
Adapt to style,
Dance feeds feisty
To curl a smile.


Salute the day
That comes with fest,
Align cheer's say
In...

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He keeps himself confined,
to bluster now, and remonstrate
the struggle being more than he can bear.
Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from
the sweat of his own making to a glimpse
of the immortal, just a glimpse, but not
the...

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...inspired by 'An Artist' by Seamus Heaney


He keeps himself confined,
to bluster now, and remonstrate
the struggle being more than he can bear.
Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from
the sweat of his own making to a glimpse
of the...

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...inspired by 'An Artist' by Seamus Heaney


He keeps himself confined,
to bluster now, and remonstrate
the struggle being more than he can bear.
Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from
the sweat of his own making to a glimpse
of the...

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...inspired by 'An Artist' by Seamus Heaney


He keeps himself confined,
to bluster now, and remonstrate
the struggle being more than he can bear.
Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from
the sweat of his own making to a glimpse
of the...

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Heart
Starts
Bold art
Joins all parts
To fill soul's sure cart
As glimpse bestows love's fond impart


Mind
Finds
Truth blind
Charm designs
Beauty that aligns
Finesse and poise where cheer consigns


Soul
Moulds
Unfolds
Sense of whole
Stray pieces  now hold
Ancient kingdoms in pristine gold


Form
Storms
Prior norms
Yet transforms
Our modern...

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Chizzie,
Your magical kiss electrifies my poor soul,
it soothes my dry tongue with your salivary honey.
It satisfies my innate needs like money
earnestly sought for to meet every set goal
listed in a schedule of a lifetime's needs.
Any...

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Live lovely looks
Bright blessings book
Craze consigns crook


Oomph orders ooze
Beer bottle booze
Senile sense snooze


Go gather good
Mix motive mood
Fashion fine food


Leapfrog lame lines
Flavours frame fine
Muse mellows mine


Do design deed
Free fragrant feed
Waste wallows weed


Live lazy light
See sparkling sights
Blooms...

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Touch me, like the morning touches faith
without the waste of time,
and holds it, as my thought holds rhyme.

Touch me, that a look beyond
tomorrow not define
some hopefulness, that today reminds.

Touch me ~ for a grant of...

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We feel the surge of magnetism divine
filling our emptiness, as we align
with the love pulsation, choosing to merge
as bliss currents benign, gently so purge
core of our consciousness as God assigns

Shifting from I-me-mine to Thee-Thou-Thine
self existent...

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Meet that strange choice at life's fork road,
Yet risk consigns a confused mind;
Sense knows a voice that bears the load,
Teaser aligns conflict in kind;
Impeach odd times with awkward glitch,
Queer curious sighs flavour the scene;
Urge punctures...

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Also named the hummingbird vine
the hummingbirds adore this bud
it is a perennial beauty 

a star shaped flower so divine; 
with varied shades it loves to flood
the garden, she is so lovely 

that the bearded thornbills...

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