Long Fasting Poems

This is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India. 





Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons! 
Life is a difficult  salvation, they don't have that knowledge", 
After...

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The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
 rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...

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*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.

The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay

Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...

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Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath

It echoes through me, this deep ambition
Half...

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Through the still small voice, God speaks to me;
Through horizon skies, God speaks to me;
From the face of a small voiced, child
God speaks to me;;

From a mountain top,
From a dew pin drop;
Heartbeats soften, postures holy...

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If death had a fee I would gladly pay
To see my beloved father everyday
How can I forget this good man
Who left us on the 10th of May
Despite that I prayed to the Lord each and...

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WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS


In the delicious womb of all beginnings 
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things 
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts 
warm gurglings of God’s dream for us

Morning glories were waiting 
deep...

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I

'Fine boy looking ugly',
Dread lock,crazy jean,vassace palm,
Gucci wrist-watch,Iphone 7s,painted roof,
Eight damsels,twelve olosho and three extra
phones.
Frosh!

12-5am; his internet vigil.
Hunting wealth in wealthy forests.
He doesn't give a shit,if the culprit is his
niece,
Or rather blood bond of any...

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Considering the church's present plight
the evils of sin have breached the walls
just as it was in Nehemiah's days
we need to learn from Jerusalem's fall

We must see the need of the hour
prayer needs to be our...

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Love and Gratitude
                                ...

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Why I love the Prophet Muhammad
(SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam)

If you ask me, why do I love him, the
Prophet Muhammad (May Peace be upon him) -
I love him because he cared about us
Muslims, and loving him...

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1.   My ex-girlfriend tried to impress me when
          She told me that she is "Fasting"!  And I knew
     ...

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We are of no club 
In the race of destiny
There may be team work 
To avoid setback filming to drub
Trials and luck making lot of agony
Despite the unrelenting years of paperwork

To me school is cool
Inspiring...

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6)  Q: What is meant by the sixth Beatitude in Mathew 5:6: by "blessed are they which 
          do hunger and thirst after righteousness?"

 ...

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So, I play my game
Yes, play your own too
If mine affects your aim
Change strategy or rather boo
My efforts than trying to clear my path
For redress would fire back my math

My morning is to learn
From the...

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Blare the sensational movement that invade my heart.
Neither of money nor of fame.
I would have glorified upon the simplicity of the trends of this move.
It's of a young looking damsel my ray slashed of a...

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We pray to Allah, not because He
Needs us, but because we need Him so
God is the One who keeps us alive
God is the One who helps us grow


How dare you walk on earth as though
You...

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Coming Out
By Jan Beaumont ©

I may very well start a new diet 
I think it's a good thing to do
Let's face it, I've been a bit naughty
And my figure is showing it too!

The trouble is, which...

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My Beloved, 
My fervent Solemn passion
My LOVE bound to you
My Darling, I am entirely thine
As kindling in pure Formidable flame
My Beloved, My precious love
My better self,
If the moment of Immortality 
Unveil to exist between us
I...

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You're an individual.
 You're unique. 
And it's important that you 
create the space to 
express your uniqueness, 
and become the fully expressed, 
fully unleashed, 
fully unlimited vibrancy that you are.
There's a stage in a mans...

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I had seen - her calm, cool, composed - like a soft soothing breeze,
Though she could turn tempest or tornado or weakly wheeze;
Like a formless cherub in an endless garden of love,
She covered the earth...

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Pharisee went into the Temple to pray
Sure of his goodness and love for God
He prayed confidently about his deeds
Fasting, tithing, praying, He did faithfully
 
This man was glad when the sinner came
Into the Temple with...

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Life of A True Muslim 
I am a Muslim 
And God I praise 
For all of  his blessings 
In one God I believe 
He is alone God of All His Beautiful  Creatures.
He sit...

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Confession is the telling of our sins to a duly authorized priest, for the purpose of abstaining forgiveness

We are bound to confess our mortal sins. But it is well also to confess our venial sins.

The...

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we need to let go of that welfare mentality
and let God bless us with a new and positive reality
just start believing that we deserve to be blessed
believe that through God our testimony will progress
God will...

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