Long Handed down Poems
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Justice Is Crying In the Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
handed down, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Adieu - Part 2
The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...
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Categories:
handed down, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
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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Categories:
handed down, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Truth Is All An Act In Government Exposed
One small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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handed down, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
A Haunting Wooded Tale
,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
handed down, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
handed down, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Easter Origins
"Worship in spirit and truth"
With Easter approaching, many people Christian and non-Christian are exposed to this celebration and may have questions concerning the various teachings, rites, rituals and traditions that are promulgated by public worship...
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handed down, bible, christian, easter, god, gospel, jewish,
Form:
Didactic
Anything For a Laugh
I’ve always been a prankster and a lover of a joke.
I love to see the puzzled look on an unsuspecting bloke,
when he looks around and lifts his hat - totally confused.
Some take a joke for...
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Categories:
handed down, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Love Letter
Oh to vacation behind the heavy metal door
To escape another election year.
All news is stopped at the door by the guards
Whoever sit in the same place
Waiting
Always
Waiting to retrieve all banned goods
And outside time.
Between med...
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Categories:
handed down, addiction, blue, mental illness, new york, political,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Lawyers - Xx
Unquotable quotes – Lawyers: XX
(No aspersions are willfully or otherwise cast on the honorable profession of the Law. Though I’m not a Barrister, I passed – through self-study – all the subjects at the...
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Categories:
handed down, abuse, culture, dedication, humor, judgement, money, word
Form:
Epigram
I Was There
Where was I on "Bull" Conner's day,
When the world saw white-hate on display?
Attack dogs, hoses, and lawmen's feet,
Blacks felled like timber on a southern street.
As fists and batons flayed the air,
Hate left the wounded laying...
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Categories:
handed down, emotions, imagery, perspective, racism, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
The species and genus
known as Homo sapiens
predominated across the webbed wide world
for tens of thousands of years
until many brain children teamed together,
(though nevertheless select individuals
such as Fred Flintstone and Barney...
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Categories:
handed down, adventure, age, allusion, america, appreciation, atheist, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
White Column Ressurrection
‘WHITE COLUMN RESSURRECTION’
Even now you stand poised with memories of a corned cobbed pipe in one hand-tight gripped lapel in the other-perched against thick southern charmed columns positioned on a once so powerful veranda .
Peering...
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Categories:
handed down, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Famous Last Line
India (Original Poem)
I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.
I feel love in the language
Swelling in my heart.
Reverence for God and Goddess
In beloved families...
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Categories:
handed down, hindi, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
A Madman's Remembrance of Lost Love
Bugs are crawling in my brain
I want to go out into the rain
And laugh and sing and dance all night
But mine is not a happy plight
You see, they say I am insane
I say, I just...
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Categories:
handed down, allusion, analogy, child, death, memory, metaphor, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
The Idea Is To
The idea is to...
...
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Categories:
handed down, angst, courage, fear, grief, introspection, life, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Some Men Die To Survive
Some men die to survive
the Hard endures
the Soft succumbs stews in juices reproduces exults
disappears
the heartless breaks cracks crumbles
drags
the Ephemeral down the ravines of the also-ran rivers
...
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Categories:
handed down, death, destiny, god, history, religion, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Journal Entry, September 12, 2016
It snowed last night and outside my window is a winter wonderland.
It is -6, sunny and the wind is 24 kilometers, the afternoon
temperature will be about -4, that's not bad for Canada.
The first thing,...
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Categories:
handed down, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the kids
just naked silence, from raging of black rapids
From heavens above,...
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Categories:
handed down, beauty, fate, hope, pain, passion, romantic, sweet
Form:
Rhyme
Women's Hockey Gold
Down to the two final teams
it's Canada against the United States,
three periods of hockey to watch
which team will meet their fate?
The game started at one pm my time
I could not...
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Categories:
handed down, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Luke's Purpose
Luke’s Purpose
Luke 1:1-4
Luke: “Many people have applied themselves,
to the task of compiling an account of the events,
that have been fulfilled among us [the shelves].
They used what the original eyewitnesses [gents] -
And servants of the word...
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Categories:
handed down, angst, atheist, christmas, history, irony, jesus, religion,
Form:
Quatrain
Brick Mason's Daughter
My dad is a brick mason and so were my 2 grandfathers so it’s easy to say I would
know a thing or two about laying brick. It has surely come in handy a few...
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Categories:
handed down, life, sadme, life, me, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Jury of His Peers
An old man long in years, in threadbare coat, with grizzled hair, and eyes aged and heavy.
Stood with withered hands once strong and true, which clung to an old cap.
For years he had tilled the...
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Categories:
handed down, daughter, death, father, father daughter, judgement, life,
Form:
Free verse
Hand Him Your Hands
It was such a simple act but it had a significant meaning
the Disciples had no idea what the Lord Christ was gleaning
they had witnessed His death with their own eyes
and could not grasp the concept...
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Categories:
handed down, day, devotion, faith, grandmother, hope, inspirational, me,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Grass Is Greener
We’re not called upon to choose anything we live through;
Neither parent nor sibling nor school nor form of sinew;
Neither colour of hair or eye or skin,
Nor love or hate, nor loss or gain
Nor opportunities nor...
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Categories:
handed down, africa, hate, history, home, love, memory,
Form:
Limerick