Long Hard facts Poems

K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...

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His name was Alex Bergeron,
grew up west of New Orleans,
from a line of backwoods Cajuns,
went to school to follow his dreams.

He grew to become a doctor,
quickly built a name for himself,
Alex built himself a good...

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Someone please
answer me 
I'm gonna scream
I was weak 
but Why'd 
I hide Beneath
The streaks n stains
for weeks and days
Feel so week
For these things
I feel i
Reak of shame
So now These
streams of pain
Leak down
my face
every day
I day...

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Someone please
answer me 
I'm gonna scream
I was weak 
but Why'd 
I hide Beneath
The streaks n stains
for weeks and days
Feel so week
For these things
I feel i
Reak of shame
So now These
streams of pain
Leak down
my face
every day
I day...

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They say New York and California
are going through an exodus,
fleeing jobs, increasing taxes,
they loose more and more people's trust.
And given what a mess they are,
I can't blame those who want to escape,
but there are things...

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I did see the buoyant bubbles of bliss
fizzing out of my charming muse's smile.
A bubbly butterfly that she is,
was fluttering and whirling around me with verve.
She was so excited to explore the beauty of nature
and...

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Someone please answer me I'm gonna scream I was weak but Why'd I hide Beneath The streaks n stains for weeks and days Feel so week For these things I feel i Reak of shame...

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Here are the cold hard facts everyone.
If you have given birth to a daughter or a son,
their future is going to be a very harsh and dark one, 
as will all of their future generations.
No...

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This morning - just before I’d finished dressing in his office - my doctor said, “I’m going to give you something new to try.

This drug’s a little pricey - and it’s still experimental - but...

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I remember growing up in foster care waiting for my dad to show up 
I tried to let go of the pain, but the sadness holds up
I bottle it all and then the madness explodes...

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Would you do something if you knew it hurts another?,
and try to keep this thing under cover.
 Why would someone not have little consideration?,
let's think about this and look for an explaination.
 Does it matter...

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Standing at the proverbial crossroads,
tapping into the game like Morse code.
Cutting my loses as I've lost loads,
Nothing more to lose, I'm like frost...
Froze my assets switching to boss mode.
Are ya out my ass yet? Its...

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Mr. Frost was right.

It felt good that night, 
laying on our backs 
at the end of the dock 
looking at the stars.

It took us forever 
to find the little dipper.

It was one of those nights...

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Down on my knees praying to you
My heart now broken, the world is askew

I am sad and confused and tears fill my eyes
As I watch the news I’m beginning to despise

I hear nothing of good...

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In another plane of perception
There is a doppelganger of me
Who is disconnected from the hive
And a lifetime of reacting
Where I still my mind
As I focus my intention
And my understanding of boundaries
Is honed almost to perfection

Casting...

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Let's start this issue with hard facts 
believe it or not the seed is now planted 
from our Lord's spoken words lets address this world openly honest

It only fills us with the wind and the...

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There was a man that took a fall & was broken
in many ways
He had the strength to rise again after being betrayed
& led astray
Sometimes the pain is so great that it can throw you
off paths
When...

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Solid Ideas

A solid idea has a myriad of concrete corners
When you step off the curb take one with you and iron boots
It follows you with definable mass and weight
With cold hard facts to anchor
A solid...

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To put on paper
that which is true
to make indelible 
that which is hidden
and to accentuate
that which we like covered.
This is the essence of poetry 
to turn a boy into a believer.

In a cold mould
where words...

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Confident stride in a broken face.
Can you guess who lost the race?

Straightest line along a path.
Can the stray cat do the math?

Every time in every way,
Our hero fails to save the day,

And has to try...

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Highlit noon terrain, sun blatant 
       Bathes their shadowless landscape 
          Endless brilliant sheds radiation 
    ...

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If you or 1 wish to
live based on reality

Live in the real world you
awaken to every single morning

You then also sadly have to accept
these cold hard facts of life as well

As these few simple fundamental...

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she could not handle the truth
easier to live a lie
just the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
does it still exist
 
when none believe reality its still truth
if all believe lies they are still falsehoods
authenticity...

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Hard facts 
(Poetic Form :: Nibor)

His last word
to break year long
relation;

Broke her heart
she tries not to
remember;

Memories
don't obey her
mind's command.

Avoids places where
they sat hours together
to share their future
still he comes to her mind.

His number many
times she...

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An awakening call is coming in,
do we change, or stay
the way we have always been.
Voices are heard, they rally loud,
is there any truth,
or are they just pleasing the crowd?
One has to really, autopsy a speech,
who...

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