Long Eminently Poems

Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats

If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrained,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To...

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I romanticize the single room without a jurisdiction
If only I could filter through a voice of logic over reaction 
Would it impel my inner child to regress into an illusion?
My mind composes a structure but...

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Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; meaning yours truly actually a virtually married Pennsylvania man,...

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There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridiculous theory
that straight homophobic preachers
and teachers,
prophets
and kings,
pharaohs
and rabbis,
old crows
and magpies

Throughout too...

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Is ARANJUEZ a pining after the composer's mother ?

(Joaquin Rodrigo - 1901-1999 - who composed the " Aranjuez " concerto on piano in 1938/9 and which later was destined for the guitar and orchestra, turned...

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GET OVER YOURSELVES 

In the beginning, the biblical poets had
the creator declare “I am that I am!” 
Later in the text, the biblical poets had the
creator command with authority and grace
“Be still and know that...

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"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done," I began to sing during three weeks of prayer from 9 in the morning till 5, a full "work" day. I challenged my church, If you want the...

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Mine fervent aspiring political activism...

Gunning gusto, (while rosy axles grind)
for Bernie Sanders dagnabbit
nipped in figurative bud triggered zilch
prospects to germinate, 

cultivate, and amalgamate
late blooming spore port as 
schlocky, reedy, quirky, political neophyte,
whose aura, charisma, dogma
enigma,...

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Mine fervent aspiring political activism...

Gunning gusto, (while rosy axles grind)
for Bernie Sanders dagnabbit
nipped in figurative bud triggered zilch
prospects to germinate, 

cultivate, and amalgamate
late blooming spore port as 
schlocky, reedy, quirky, political neophyte,
whose aura, charisma, dogma
enigma,...

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Who Are You ¿


What can you see of you
When everyone around you
Only sees the worst of you

When they are addicted to the weakness
Which plays to their ego

What truth of you
Is shown you

In the guise of...

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Information superhighway bumper to binary bumper. 
Stark contrast versus deserted macadam thoroughfares.
Magnification rendered visualization coronavirus
alias covid 19 courtesy electron microscopy plus

sundry computer technology yours truly (popeye
Olive Garden variety generic layman) breathtakingly
held spellbound, née utterly transfixed...

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She was eminently qualified in numbers  
Held fast to the beliefs in physical objects  
Felt every molecule down to her mortal soul
Religion guided Sue through water and soil
Down in the mud of love...

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In our scientific
secular
sometimes ecological
paradigms

We speak
and feel monocultural solitude
versus polycultural amplitude

Colonizing internal dry complexities
versus creolizing moist outside chaos
decomposing uncreative tensions
lack of creative intentions

Meanwhile,
within our gospel choirs
sacred
systematically theological
polytheistic 
and polyphonic 
transubstantiating polynomially 
equipoised poetic
polytheistic paradigms
expressing timeless robust...

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It was no longer a vague errand, 
She was determined to accost him 
She had overcome at last the dread 
Of having to face her painful dilemma 
With a vigorous jerk of her head 
She...

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CONFOUNDED    ( COLLABORATION )


by~ S.Jagathsimhan Nair

When tension grips and the head reels
In its ever accelerated twirl
When two rays dangle from two flayed poles,
And the dumb loss of a moment’s truth
Looks so conspicuous...

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Alas, we've elected bozos on both sides to again guide the nation!
(Some folks are sobbing in their ale, others are filled with jubilation!)
To rid this great nation of such knaves, here is what I would...

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Confounded

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

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My cottage becomes a mystical Universe                             ...

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Sacrificing her childhood at an early age of sixteen ,been wedded to an elderly man of thirty,lacked intimacy and understanding with my dad, amid lot of risk & struggle had given birth to me at...

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Just a glance sparked a fire of love that burned so pristine
As a farm-girl fell for a handsome farm-hand of her dream.
Love blossomed like early Spring, though both were married,
A romantic desire flamed spirits as...

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Love Story	

Oh, how I remember days full of ardent cheer
Enamored in prospects of romance so sincere!
Believing love so precious would never end
Floating on emotions that eagerly befriend.

Despair then ravished my young tender heart 
And all...

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Whispers

How can I ever forget the evening we first met
Under the twilight of placid sun about to set
When your sweet whispers ably set me afire 
As I embraced in earnest your loving desire.

You held me...

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Miles stretch before me, and many behind -
as many are the thoughts tonight on my mind.

I began this trip giving my body more ink,
more art to describe one more family link.
I will end it the...

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The sound of fans returns me to the pores

of alone summer nights,

sweating pulses of dream echo...

You came to me

in your deep, sweet fear

of lonely desire to be filled

with a gently undulating completion

while our mutual nightmare...

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