Long Foregoing Poems

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Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar

Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate

         For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of 
the THIRUK-KURAL

Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foregoing, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form: Villanelle


I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now

I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...

despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before undergoing
voluntary drastic makeover
as iterated in a previous poem,
and briefly recounted here
as foregoing Samson...

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Categories: foregoing, 7th grade, absence, abuse, age, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Struggle To Write

Struggle to write

Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.

This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...

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Categories: foregoing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line

Courtesy severely receding hair line..., 
yours truly enveloped within morose mood

I (Samson incarnate) 
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.

Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...

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Categories: foregoing, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form: Rhyme

Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed Ken

Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken

Analogous to black box
holding untold secrets,
(after deadly plane crash
no survivors except 
a journeyman foreigner),
I share the following self
introspection with ye dear readers,
which purported hidden truths
might...

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Categories: foregoing, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful, crush, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse


Argh, I never got muffin top before why now

Argh, I ne'er got muffin top before - why now!?

Once upon a time yours truly did allow
himself to consume anything in sight
eats of mine in the mein 
included an assortment of chow.

Impossible firm me 
(read...

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Categories: foregoing, adventure, age, angst, appreciation, body, food, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Field Daze For Bookworms

Cabin Fever door closes five dollars,
a-Bag Used Book Sale
Sunday, February 23, 2020
hence less than twenty four hours
before avid readers bewail
foregoing scampering across Hillandale
vital poetic proclamation

yours truly doth broadcast,
albeit apologize short notice,
while courtesy warden
at Highland Manor...

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Categories: foregoing, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, books, freedom,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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The Longing, Remembering the Sway of the Primal Guide, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem

Carlos Bousono’s poem : Recordando a pastora imperio

                         for Damaso Alonso

(Poem...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foregoing, devotion, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
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The Hawaiianism of Ho'Oponopono

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The Hawaiianism of Ho'oponopono

A word, astir, in undulating waves surges and awash a clear open black shoreline of Hawaii nei, as it recedes in cycles dashing back...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foregoing, forgiveness, power, prayer,
Form: Didactic

Relinquishing Emotional Fixations

Toward Material Trappings

Gold and silver upholds
     true value capitalist money tree
Thrown down upon gaunt
     lit alter of Midas,
     treasured as current sea

Countless denominations
...

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Categories: foregoing, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Epiphany At Union Station

The Station was littered and in disrepair, 
'Out Of Order' signs bore witness. 
Discarded chewing gum and empty bottles, 
and the smells emanating from untended 
trash baskets... and in the midst 
of all this dislocation...

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Categories: foregoing, inspirational,
Form: Verse

Epiphany At Union Station

The Station was littered and in disrepair, 
'Out Of Order' signs bore witness. 
Discarded chewing gum and empty bottles, 
and the smells emanating from unemptied 
trash baskets... and in the midst 
of all this dislocation...

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Categories: foregoing, writing,
Form: Verse

An Innocent Little Book

Once upon a time on a table lay an innocent little book;
Do not open it, a label warned, not even to take a look.
You want to know, don’t you, why so many have come back,
To...

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Categories: foregoing, inspirational, life,
Form: Lyric

Epiphany At Union Station

The Station was littered and in disrepair, 
'Out Of Order' signs bore witness. 
Discarded chewing gum and empty bottles, 
and the smells emanating from unemptied 
trash baskets... and in the midst 
of all this dislocation...

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Categories: foregoing, angel, imagination, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry

Epiphany At Union Station

Union Station was littered and in disrepair, 'Out Of Order' signs bore witness. Discarded chewing gum and empty bottles, and the smells emanating from unemptied trash baskets... and in the midst of all this dislocation...

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Categories: foregoing, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Prismatic Persona

   "I try to share my  thoughts with Poetic touch through contests being Rational Analytic , 

   Courageous  and Righteous not Religious and surely not to win but to...

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Categories: foregoing, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
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Man Will Know War No More

We are an ignorant, foolish species.  Unaware of our potential and unwilling to love each other unconditionally.  We are infants in the grand scheme of creation.  We are children among men and...

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Categories: foregoing, faith,
Form: Blank verse
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Legend

I walk this earth, unbeknown to human kind
an heir to Legends, men of mighty deeds
who through the force of fire and stars we find
those such as I the offspring of their seeds.
Hercules, his power and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foregoing, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
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Punkin Man

Dominic Venetucci - 1911-2004

Outside, snow gently fell upon the barren punkin patch.
Where happy children once romped was now a forlorn thatch.
Inside the aged' couple reminisced about happier times and shed a tear.
Alas, drought dashed their...

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Categories: foregoing, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme

November 13th 2017 - Part 1

November 13th 2017 
Happy 83rd birthday to thy cremated mom

Harriet Harris fought tooth and nail
Mother succumbed 
to terminal illness without fail 
Ovarian/ Uterine Cancer to no avail
hosted by death feasted fancy 
at Oyster Bay metastasized...

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Categories: foregoing, dark, grave, happy birthday, heartbroken, obituary, son,
Form: Ballad

Argh, I Ne'Er Got Got Bran Did With

Argh, I Ne'er Got  Got Bran Did With...
A  Muffin Top Before - Why Now!?

Impossible firm he (reed myth self)
to compete with Adonis, no way no chance
asthma gut busts over
waistband of sweatpants,
the choice couture,
asper...

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Categories: foregoing, addiction, appreciation, celebration, environment, freedom, heaven, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Shangri-La

I just hear bugles i just hear trumpets and horns
I am the fool a slayer of rule an androgynous clone of make believe
thought a trance, sometimes not knowing what's real as free a rational ability
I...

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Categories: foregoing, lifelife, life,
Form: Verse

Release My Mind From Churlish Chains

Sometimes in churlish chains
Fed up with ribald refrains
On my mind inflicting pains and strains

In the morning, afternoon and night
When from life I gain no delight
Sinking into sorrows on the flight

From illusion
Conflated with delusion
Carved from collusion

Between...

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Categories: foregoing, poems,
Form: Free verse

Incomplete Metamorphosis To Manhood Phase 2

Matthew Scott Harris deprived himself
relishing, savoring, and tasting
chromosomal biologic metamorphosis
including wreaking havoc, nixing, and
foregoing heterosexual interpersonal experiences,
thus sparking woeful regret

disallowing, disenabling, and not providing
natural encoded healthy growth
of body, mind, and spirit triage
regarding fluke of universe...

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Categories: foregoing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse

Brotherly Bummer Plods Along His Staid Usual Humdrum Life Part One

Methinks lame excuses poorly explain
absent presence gnosh hoe wing up to
acknowledge our papa's ninetieth orbit
around sun, nor dearly beloved eldest
commencement successfully, modestly,
honestly (applying her smarts) as freshly

minted (sage) University of Pennsylvania
graduate, now where webbed wide...

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Categories: foregoing, grief, heartbreak, hello, husband, identity, loss, self,
Form: Free verse
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