Long Hard put Poems

Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e.,  cantos...

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Unquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII

Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral waves dashing on the beaches of their consciousness.
The only unlicensed...

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K167 and K168 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[Here, again, in these two couplets Thiru-Valluvar is having the time of his life making his followers dread the consequences of what he...

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All throughout I shooed the crooked thoughts away. 
For a doll such as her Dolly, with her unrealistic
Curves and flawless skin, would be hard put to 
Find comfort onboard daddy’s ship. She’d find
That loneliness is...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake: Part Thirty-Six

Hardly had the CS drawn tight the net round the mosque and lake
The red phone on his desk at the Préfecture signalled a break
Through at the Orly Airport end:...

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Parlous decisions
Have been made
Regarding our plants
Wrong hands played 

China now top nation
In terms of output
By manufacturing jobs
Leads USA hard put

Where do our parts
Come from for repairs
Where does our military
Gear appear~ despair 

Where do our vehicles
Arise?...

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Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet


Worn down landscape
Ridden hard and put up wet over eons of time.
Buttes interspersed with ravines and wadis,
Vast irregular symmetry.

Clumps of purple blue green sage
To have been seen by the riders of...

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How does on measure the worth of a man?
How does one try to surmise it?
Can a man be appraised like a parcel of land?
There are so many things that comprise it;

For the gem of his...

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Hard put as Homo Sapiens to prove,
Far off left have we oh, home of love.
Lose virtue, watch in vain Sita’s woes,
Jatayu long dead, scarce can we move. 
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Translation |05.09.2024| history, women, world
Poet’s note: This is...

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Dazed n confused
Not knowing how to help if its not spoken of too
Expressing is like a suggestion of how deep its roots
Dazed n confused 
Not knowing how to help if rooted out too
Just feeling bruised
n...

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The edge of a knife
Between hell and heaven
Rode hard, put up wet
At age twenty-seven
‘Twas never in doubt 
Inspired, these artists
But those who fly high
Oft crash down the hardest
They wrestled their demons
In public displays
Poor young tortured...

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Autumn's crisp, dry leaves crackle underfoot;
adding a crunch to the grandeur of Fall.
Squirrels scamper about as if hard-put
to gather acorns, then bury them all.

Nature crochets a shroud for Summer's death;
using colored leaves that fell from...

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SWAK

Pucker up, my fine man, 
trim that mustache, I have a plan.
I'll write you a letter in cursive, long hand,
sealed in a kiss [from a dame named Susann.]

Your wife or your lover
will be hard put...

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