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Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan

Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member John 3: 16 Rewrite
If John 3:16 is read as,
For God so loved Earth
that S/he gave up Her only begotten-beloved Child,
so all future regenerating generations
might have eternal timeless love lives.

it doesn't feel quite right.
It doesn't even sound rational,
nor consistently...

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Categories: extracts, destiny, earth, gender, god, health, war,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
 
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, america, creation, culture, film, race, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- Ii By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - II by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, america, angst, drug, emotions, future, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- I By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - I by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, america, angst, art, friend, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- Iii By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - III by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, america, angst, character, conflict, future, howl, sick,
Form: Free verse
Spilling Some Ink
Spilling some ink as quick as ya eye's blink,
These freestyle writings are the missing link,                    ...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, meaningful, mentor, poetry, wisdom, words, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Animus
A hiding place, a warm and darkened room,
A lit doorway, bright against the dark,
Cold against the warmth, a frame for odd
Assorted stranger-forms whose faces loom

As quarrels over (what?) convulse and rend them,
Leering laughter giving in...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, dream, imagery, psychological,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Gabab
A human anti-neuronal autoantibody against GABAB receptor induces experimental autoimmune agrypnia
Article (PDF Available) in Experimental Neurology 204(2):808-18 · May 2007 with 63 Reads
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.01.012 · Source: PubMed

1st Giovanni Frisullo
37.12 · Catholic University of the Sacred Heart 

2nd...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extracts, health, , cute, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Make Way For Lovers
she asked for a great thyme
a day for festvel and enjoyment
a day to marvel in the creativity
of love
and day for people to come together and celebrate the need
to love


she made beautiful drinks of
cucumber jucies and...

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Categories: extracts, music, sports,
Form: Ballad
The Prospector
The Prospector: 

He packs his tack in a great canvas sack 
And then drives away in his car.
Nobody cries as they wave their goodbyes; 
They will await his return from afar.
When he reaches the track...

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Categories: extracts, adventure, friendship, inspirational, nature, places, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Color My Day
In pitch black night there is no color, 
For light is color's revealer.
In daylight, your eyes see an object as white, when all light is reflected, 
White is all the colors from a billion rainbows,...

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Categories: extracts, color,
Form: Free verse
FLAME OF ASCENSION
FLAME OF ASCENSION
 

No-one can escape Flame of Ascension 
           a glance, a glimmer, a gestalted shadow
ghosts or gestures guarded Hearts to
   ...

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Categories: extracts, 12th grade, allegory, extended metaphor, god, humanity,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Aphrodite
Aphrodite, the goddess of love
 Breathed a charm on my skin
  Telling it to feel like it was dancing
   When the one I love happened 
    Within sight, where...

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Categories: extracts, god, love, lust, muse, nature, passion, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ice King
He grew within a frigid place
No one thought those legs would ever part
A Dark Prince thawed her frozen heart

A member long and stiff like ice
Penetrates
Cuts through the cold
His seed 
His power
They both take hold
Invade
Satiate
Invigorate
Skin white...

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Categories: extracts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
For All the Beatniks of San Francisco
Shirley Brown was a very beautiful girl, 
And her brunette hair 
Hung down her back 
And as the wind blew thru the window, 
It waved around. It waved around.
She was making sandwiches,
And was packing them...

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Categories: extracts, culture, girl, music, political, rights, teenage, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heavenly Matters
Toilets are uniquely designed for one purpose only,
And as we know them, they are dispellers of waste.
Our human waste is a byproduct of consumed food.
The body extracts useful nutrients and expels the rest.
We excrete the...

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Categories: extracts, christian, heaven,
Form: Verse
Our Ship of Life
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life pummels us from side to side 
randomly dictating its capricious ways 
lacking logic the tossing grips us and seeks to take our lives    

Death,...

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Categories: extracts, life, perspective,
Form: Didactic
Rising and Falling In a Tempest
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life, pummels us from one side to the other 
randomly dictating capricious ways 
arbitrarily gripping our lives

Life, like the ghost of Christmas past,
comes at night, tells its tale...

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Categories: extracts, happiness, life, remember, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soup To Go
~Soup To Go~

This summer~ all I want is a bowl of soup 
A secret flavor that combines every veggie group 

              ...

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Categories: extracts, imagination, mystery, natureme, sweet, me, poetry, smile,
Form: Couplet
Tears
Tears
(for A, I shed)

When I herd these tribes and fashion cities
With my words, you are what's missing.
                  ...

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Categories: extracts, introspectionme,
Form: Free verse
Power of Love
the spectacle of beauty claims supremacy
inticing soceity in spells which last endlessly
portraying tendencies to embody our community 
no defense of immunity- all fall victims to its feet
from the commons to the elite- its facits are...

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Categories: extracts, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Road To Over
Unwrapping both a blessing and a curse, extracts	
Love’s essence painting souls and framing them abstracts.
 
Too brazen into Jung’s collective we were when,
Our fists were punching holes up through the floors of Heaven.
  
We...

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Categories: extracts, christian, jesus, lost love, moving on, trust,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Saraswati's Song
Each morning when I rise before dawn
Before I open closed eyes I may see
The essence of my soul’s *etheric body
That dwells deeply inside of me.

As I look at my face in the mirror,
Or is my...

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Categories: extracts, devotion, inspirational, introspectionlonging, universe,
Form: Quatrain
What a Life
What a life!


If I man enter your house, eat your food, and have your wife, just because I can.
I say unjust.
If I man wear your suit, drive your car, and sleep in your bed, just...

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Categories: extracts, allah, bereavement, faith, history, judgement, poems, religious,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs