Long Embitter Poems

" Hello dear duckling!
  I know it's been a while.
  Every time I hear your story
  I cannot help but beam a smile. "

" Hi! How are you? Yes, my story travels...

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To the Western Statesmen

How long on earth do you ever wish to close your eyes to truth,
To waste your precious resources, to embitter your dear lives,
To take sinless souls of babies, the old as well...

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Further observations in the THIRUK-KURAL on those* who would be King: K389 and K390 WITHOUT COMMENT

[* such as short-term presidents, chief and prime ministers, governors, dictators and the like]

K389: chevikaippach chotporukkum panpudai veenthan
  ...

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Choosing whom to love...is an unsolved dilemma, we humans seldom attest;
how can love be shared equally among the ones who delight our very heart?


I can't love one person more than the other, it's utter unfairness...

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Across my street with sidewalks
shaded by fluttering oak trees,
there's a gardener with the army cap...
while rascals laugh and play nasty rap;
how well tends to his garden without weeds,
how glad he is when neighbors clap, 
and...

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This thing called love in all its multiple forms:
a mother’s, a partner’s, a spouse’s, a child’s, 
a friend's, a pet’s, a stranger’s, a sibling’s love.
And the very incomprehensibly incredible one:
God’s Love, with a capital L,...

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Fitting in isn't like me at all
Faking hand gestures 
School girl laughs
Fragranced by the imortality of high school dreams
Sometimes life handed me a wilted flower
Made me nurse it back to health with impossibility
I just watched...

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The heartbreak would forgive God's fire darkly
Suicidally they shatter her heart: I am spiritual
Darkly destroy my all too dark wings
Your conscious chains would rise up against our mind rhythmically
So mystically you remember that fire: I...

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Flickering like candles in the slightest breeze,
Raw with emotion, they are seen so easily worn on sleeves.
Asunder they may break, so
Gentle you must be! Gossamer
Is the flimsy sweater of protection that they wear.
Laugh or look...

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Insult the sun and embitter the world
as you live for the day's demise.
A current of crumpled up silver wishes
passed you in the rising tide.
Once in your hollow attractive youth
the world was fooled for a moment.
It...

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