Long Estimations Poems

Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...

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I Am Who I Am

Date: Wed, Dec 23 2015 at 8:11 PM

I don't wear no disguise
My True Self I can't hide
Without God I don't want to Rise
I like to look at the Storms Rage an...

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Unbeknownst to me, WoodenMan enjoyed quite a cotillion of female admirers. With 
his rosewood
dimples barely lifted in permanent bemusement, women found him adorable, though 
decidedly eunuch.

 It all began the night I visited the local...

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1.618 :

Number of Golden Ratio, mystery of Kaaba, Miracle of Islam and Koran, it is the high time for Divine Secrets, Divine Mysteries. Soon on display!

In a little while, you will see scientific proofs of...

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years of writing and learning
working
guts spilled
heart ripped out
torn to holes
stabbing myself open
and spreading myself thin

learning this about that thing
this thing about that stuff
computer whizz i am not
but one comes along
and i am forever lost in...

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Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical magician
Because even I know
all things aren’t equal 

I don’t know...

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Away...

Spot her  from far.
Have a tingle mingle all over your skin.
Award your forehead a scratch
As you do the arduous estimations
Of the remaining catwalk steps
Before her beauty kisses your eyes.
Let sanity flee from your mind.
(That's...

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Is life truly good healthy wealth
because I wanted it to be that way,
or because it truly is good health wealth
that we all want to become?

Yes, probably both.
And the reverse might be pathologically true as well.

One...

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Hiding behind a mysterious facade
As they wrongly charge me with 
blatant estimations of who I am.

Drowning in scorched tears, 
not sure about this voiceless 
and veiled existence.

Feeling displaced as they examine my
New York inflection, while...

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Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the exchange of craftsmanship, 
lately I have been preoccupied with my...

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thick hair, no hair, wow
young man, then older man now ...
it snuck up on us





3/18/2023

Poetry form: Senryu

Photo credits:  Billion Photos via Canva Pro

At times like this, I'm drawn to the lyrics of "A Hazy...

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Calmness enlighten soul. .
With sensation 
Situated within he's heart: compassion,  uniqueness of the perks only I will know. 

Who's going to care about
Acting those meanful words. 

Who's never going to offend .. 
Who's going...

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Wisdom’s palace of excess                               ...

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HIDDEN

I hide behind a mysterious façade as
they wrongly charge me with blatant 
estimations of who I am.

Feeling displaced as they examine my
northeast inflection, while their obtrusive
glaring resulting in false postulations.

Every encounter, I’m never able to...

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Waiting
Hoping
Not in the traditional way
Not in the way that sets the mind
And the heart up for a fall
I wait
I hope
For the unexpected good
For the sweetest surprise
For the seeming chaos
That will sort itself out to the...

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How unfortified are favored mystics; 
ripened men devoid of backbones, 
ladies with bogus analogies,
others, their nuisances known.

Some put fools on pedestals,
without attention to outcome, 
but things are much different 
when dealing with intellectuals.
If recollection tallies,
them...

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No hell no fail 
Can't tell ?!?
Criss crossed hands nailed railroad
Nervous nails chewed low 
Crisscrossed knees with broken elbows
Smile on the face 
hanging from the spikes like velcro
Head held up high
just a guy, who wants...

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Damn your hands and soft skin
Shamelessly proclaiming
Barefaced and audacious 
You keep my tongue on a leash

But how I take my share
Always hanging on your estimations
Where there is place enough for laughter
Never tasting the guilt with...

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