Long Firmness Poems

When you came to me...

Not that you wanted me.  Oh, no!  It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...

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When in the Course of Earth’s anthro-supremacist events, 
it becomes necessary for polycultures to resolve political bands 
which have connected Her with human nature, 
and to assume among the powers of Earth, 
separate and equal...

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PART I

The girl was walking with the boy. The color of her cotton saree was lighter green. Her face was a little worried.  Some might not fully understand the situation, some might see her...

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we came from different worlds
cowboy boots and motorcycle
she carried pen and paper as did i
hers was to communicate with the world
mine was the labor in poems
i walked the high iron
she taught the deaf to speak
a...

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Niitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar
(In these kurals, I give both the "unrefined" versions using connective particles and modified post-positions (in Tamil: according...

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Start

On the sixth day of the waxing moon
In the sixth month*, there is a boon
Mother Durga comes to her father’s home
On top of the Himalayan dome  
   
She is the epitome of...

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My mind wanders to the stillness of a field
 where wild asters used to stud the grass with blue
 I seem to hear the echo of a voice
 Lamenting over the vast stretches where my...

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Can we share some words?
Maybe that seems to be your test,
The relevance of your beauty spreads fire all over me instead.
It tells a marvelous story about nature to which I think is the best.
Anytime you...

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From England's dark blackout
We came to these shores
I and my siblings
In refuge from war.
How enchanted we were
With all we saw.

First Sydney's fine harbour
And her bridge of one span
Then the azure blue sea
The long beaches of...

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We mere shadows seek supports
When somewhere else lie our beings
Uncared  for  in inarticulate shores,

By  debris  left of uprisings.
Before the delayed departure
Does our bliss alight for a while

On  precipices. In the...

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Golden leaves, sheet music written by the unforgiving hand of time,
Fall in the slow rhythm of years that slip away like sand in an hourglass.
We are violins tuned to the melancholic tone of the eternal...

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At first it's just a glance or two
Then a blush before you knew
What was going on
Denial begins to dawn.

There is no way 
That I could be gay…
But that girl is so pretty
She looks so soft,...

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The mind wants to believe in positivity around the globe & when this desire sets its roots, what happens next is a world wide disease 'Globasity'
It spreads like a forest fire but unfortunately its end...

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She is the voice that once voiced my heart
Which makes thoughts run through my brain
She is the ray that lights the candle of my art
By which God's wisdom enlightened its campaign
Then I started hustling non-stop...

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December 23 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Revelation 7-8

Key Verse– Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a...

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September 12 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 23-25

Key Verse – Matthew 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY GREAT MASTER			

Lord God, You...

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Patradoot or The Messenger28 /Many 
  
English version by  Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor


These men and women have incarnated in them 
Peace with...

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January 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 46-48

Key Verse – Genesis 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God...

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April 12 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 6-9

Key Verse –1Chronicles 9:11  And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son...

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March 30 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 8-10

Key Verse –1Kings 8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God...

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May 13 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 9-12

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for...

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September 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Micah 6-7, and Nahum 1-3

Key Verse – Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee,...

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I'm that my words and pen can't express my weakness.
Nobody could have foreseen I felt such happiness.
My bald secret is now included in my poetic liveness. 
I'm at a loss for words to define my...

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Remember, mummy…

Remember that I am a gift from God, the richest of all blessings;
Do not attempt to mould me in your image, or my dad’s, siblings, friends or neighbours; 
I am an individual and should...

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I drifted to this place	 
When might I drift away?			
Am lost in time and space		
Cold feet encased in clay		

Afraid.  I am offbeat			
Next year I will as well		
Shamefully repeat			
Tucked inside my shell			

Are false masks better...

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