Long Elucidating Poems

"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and 
turned over 
replanted
sunnyside down
expunged and 
wrung out

eventually,
not totally oblivious, 
they...

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Doing absolute zero endeavors

Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
other wearing out rugged groovy
Tuesday (three day) experienced...

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K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...

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Over harvested fields —

I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern   a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones

Fog an Erebian curtain...

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K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...

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Off kilter

Yup
I sobered up
despite expressing regular
(unleaded and unlettered) 
urge to shtup
expunged courtesy 
system of a down
with shuga (mush)
and everything nice.

	The following crafted some time ago,
when empty nest syndrome 
pulled me psyche taut 
analogous to an...

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Vapors of emerald and jade ribbon the hauntingly beautiful sky,
and I sat in wonder, transfixed, mesmerized
For me, it moved, more like danced
to a melody that only the heavens could hear
For it moved me, danced into...

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Over saturation with 
welter weighted Yuletide
drenching world, web, wide
equal and/or greater
effort demands energy tide
to global warming,
lest apocalypse doth ride

high and mighty mandating,
inculcating, buoying... pride
toward planet Earth, the
apathetic, demonic, horrific,
plastic... malleable passive
can no longer run and...

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Robodore Planetoid
 15 Terra Terrain
Beta Curd Way
Multiverse 
Dt: 12th December, 3097

Once while traveling in space in the year 3078
I happened to meet an awesome alien straight
He was tall and multi-jawed predator pretty
Had communication with me...

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Organic form goes through birth and death
Thus man too did believe in death’s inevitability 
Until Jesus practically demonstrated resurrection
Signalling that we too may so transcend, as did He
Upon lighting the three fold flame of Christ...

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An iridescent celestial being 
Anarchic yet effervescent adolescent 
Frolicking freely in the omnipresent forest, 
Like a breeze through the leaves. 
Barefoot & star gazing — native & trail blazing.
Like a clever, fearless fairy exploring the...

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Confounded

                  -1-
When tension grips and the head reels
In its ever accelerated twirl
When two rays dangle from two flayed...

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This life fell apart at the seams
His wife met the part of her dreams
  Enraptured hearts elucidating
  Her captured hearts hallucinating.

With a poetry sweeter than pillowtalk
To know me and follow my walk
 ...

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Water you are crystal clear 
And you pour,  you're in elucidating body that rises 
Onto the shore 
And I often wonder,  why 
You're in all of us
Elemental molecule you reside within us 
And...

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can we know the truth
was the question before Ludwig Wittgenstein
the thought pondered by all the great minds
philosophy, theology, and science could produce
and i have pondered all of this
then you enter the room
the smile you wear...

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WE'RE THE MATRIX OF LIFE
 
'Dark times will reflect how bright you are.'
Challenges will amplify you as a star.
Darkness creeps in shadows deep,
A glimmer of hope, our spirits keep.

In shallow depths of the darkest night,
Our...

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I
of
warped words
& soundless mind
out of mindless sight
no(some)where
blurring into
the No-Go Realm
(chasing cunning
cryptic clouds
of thoughtcrimes)

I touch
no man's land
out never
where I'm supposed
to be or
not begin

I am there
not here
catastrophically
contemplating
caricatures
of contorted
mindscapes

I am here or there
out of control
cleverly out of sorts
sorting...

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Enlightened I, Look Beyond

Cacophonous chatter reverberates down congested hallways
Human minds stir anxious thoughts
Yet amidst the scattered, clouded banter
I force myself to read on.
The world spins on, a chaotic top
Trying not to fall off the coffee...

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Natural is the new synthetic 
Its all hoax of aesthetic 
Clear skin is the new frenzy 
The pressure is too profound , you see!
Five to ten bottles consumed of lake 
Might as well call it...

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I think form in poetry
(in all sorts of writing) 
is akin to math: without meaning
until we are talking the likes of
apples and oranges; buildings
and their elucidating inhabitants:
what goes into, and then comes
from our hearts –...

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I gazed upon the crystal
only hard before the thaw
and as you warmed to melt
your gem-like qualities seemed
of mine to adore

unlike the slush of snow
unlike the muddies of rain
unlike a city's drainage
a heart needs only another
willing...

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My eyes
Inseparably focused 
On the plain, colorless canvas
And yet
Still ideating
A bright, elucidating palette,

The golden curls
Falling over the strong, pensive face
Shown glancing 
At something unseen,

“Oh,” I wonder,
“What might it be that fixates you so?”
Do you heed...

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Admirable ... water copulating with nippleless sand
Utility ... industry caressed by the gentlest hand
Desirable ... I drip memories from my heart like a gland 
Respectable ... yet voluptuous and hard to understand
Elucidating ... lighting the...

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