Long Elaborating Poems

Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the...

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A funny thing happened this evening
My littlest daughter sat too far back on the toilet, slipped in and was stuck
(Have we all been there? I remember my experience well...)
She found it hilarious and shouted for...

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Only so pleased by sacrifice
Proffered through sacred flame,
Graceful gods do give gifts of choice
So deserved by unselfish aim;
He that eats fruits by them bestowed,
And gives not so in turn,
Who gets, not so does earn,
A thief...

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Emotional conviction from a minds depiction
Lays out mind restriction 
But will only bring friction
I can try to explain my explanation
With the utmost diction
Elaborating the reasons for stitching a heart that needs fixing
The slightest concern never...

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Stop it! Quit being hypocritical about freedom
What type or what kind that you are talking about?
Be serious! Keep on talking about freedom
Until you drive me to boredom
Until I am strong enough to eat a live...

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It hurts me to see you hurt and it all just upsets me
A friend so dear that your tears also too affect me
To me you explain your problems and ask for advice
Like why does this...

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A big part of being my most special favorite-est:
my desire to contemplate her more does persist

I'll write more soon, even if it takes me an hour!
On my fave poetess: St Therese the Little Flower

I'm back...

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Temper in my voices circling a man they break.
Vapors of a flame the scars of a love so fake
Breaking through the layers of a dream their aspirations
Imitating reflections of the pills we call medications

Am i...

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Words, some times be brief
Words, never a full sentence
Words, like those of belief
Words, that bare reference
Words, can be powerful
Words, sometimes stark              ...

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Quietly he goes about assessing situations,
Searching for the weakest link,
The source of consternation;

Seeking out the places where you need to make improvement.
He'll be your guide, a rudder,
The source of your inducement.

Evaluating habits, of each one...

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Our religion forbids all 
games of chance guys
We ain't allowed to 
indulge in that harmful 
enterprise
But no one can claim that 
gambling is at all wise

To more has gambling 
brought much misery 
and misfortune
Trying your...

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Under the canopy of the pine trees we lay
Enthralled in saffron shades of flaming fall-forest
As feisty robins sing and zesty sparrows play
Nestled in thick branches of evergreen foliage.

Enamored by blue-sky assimilating orange vibes
Twilight illuminates scarlet...

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The garden was abloom
Life passed in glee
They were close friends
In a happy levity

He never felt that
She had started believing
The whole canvas of his poem
Was her exclusive possession

When he got the morphed photos
Involving him with a...

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He wished it to be  full of sound.
round about the way successful
collaborations are done.
Fun: done: and Right.
Sought of like taking the featured
artist's position and elaborating on it.
People still love rock, urban 
contemporary grooves
and soulful...

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in-breathing             in-dwelling
                     ...

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mr.X may have said,"By any means necessary." In elaborating, I'll say,"By any means necessary which is sensible, logical, rational, ethical, and most of all moral." Lately, all I'm starting to see is a Dead Sea....

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Approaching life with no scrutinizing dispositions.
Relishing their youth,
Basking in the freedom of their most lively years.
Or so they say.

Young falling minds:
Everything is limited by perception,
Perception leading to misconception,
Misconception gradually surging to holistic pessimism.
Fallen minds don’t...

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The squirrel who played like a kitten is dead
    found her stiff and rigid body where she used to tread,
    on the ground by the pond she lay still...

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Principally, pretty Penny the poet gave the ILLUSION of preening
Outside the Palace in the portico pre-party. 
Edward the Bard entered elegantly, elaborating with an INFUSION of
Trendy calligraphy pens and colored inks of CREATIVITY.
Ralph, the Shakespearian...

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Remember the street is a dryeR
Easing out fears into a flat pastE
Memories may be seen as an imaM
Entering into convenant with hastE
Minding the time he coiled on kiliM
Beauties of the street are folded like bulb
Entertaining...

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A time for rest,
a time for enjoyment,
in order to keep our mind at peace,
we venture out,
in search for something quite special indeed,
these are known as memories,
in order to keep these memories as lively as possible,
we...

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Eclectic is the night, with its potpourri of smells and sounds...
A perfect muse on this lit, but dark, city street...
This town seems to change after the days' sun fades...
The streetlights bathe the place in a...

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Literature
In a kingdom full of textbooks
There stood a documentary brooks...
Literature
Take thy literacy from out my heart
I am sworn of my descartes
The paper bound proficiency pretesting
My encyclopedia festering
Literature
I awoke and flung the philosopher
'It's that rhetorician,' I...

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As time unfolds it's decadent myriads
As from an embryo thus born
A living pulsating form
Bringing in a new era of life

The clock strikes an hour
Making place for amendment 
elaborating on trials and perfection 
Encountering bliss and...

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Tiny humming birds
Buzzing like bees
Fluttering fast
Fluctuating
Flying like a fleet of 
Helicopters sucking
Up cargo

Red and black flowers
pollinated by
crews of workers
not colliding but collectively
Cooperating
a church on mission
absorbing, ingesting
cadre of co-laborers

Elaborating on service
A herd of helpers
Feeding, fashioning,
Fueling and...

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