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Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse

I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad fool,
and the one who...

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the beginning, angst, dark, i am, identity, psychological, self,
Form: Rhyme


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The Story of My Life

I want to tell you the story of my life.  I was born in a barn at dawn.  There
were eight of us but I was the only one with spots.  I was...

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Categories: in the beginning, cat, life,
Form: Prose
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Echoes of the Angel's Fallen

Invocation to the Muse

From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly, 
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...

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Categories: in the beginning, allegory, angel, christian,
Form: Epic
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Why I Strayed Part 1

Why I strayed, I know the reason, but do you? You’re the one that I fell into their arms, the one that I turned to
Although I told you then I never got too deep, but...

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Categories: in the beginning, heartbreak, hurt, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 6

Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 6

Brahmari Pranayama or Humming Bee Breath

IMP. NOTE: Temporarily I am stopping new episodes 
of Yoga in Poem due to personal reasons and will try 
to restart Yoga in...

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Categories: in the beginning, health, life, love,
Form: Free verse


Pen Errand

I know that even when others deceive me, you can't decieve me with your blossoming ink of truth.
Go tell them what has happened to our budget,
Tell them that our budget is missing in a broad...

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Categories: in the beginning, art, universe,
Form: Epigram
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Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1

SHE was my wife, once ...

long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,

supplying...

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Categories: in the beginning, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form: Free verse
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A Friendly Goodbye

Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.

he made...

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Categories: in the beginning, beauty,
Form: Free verse
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Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan

Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan


(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the beginning, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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Health Predicts Safety

In some primordial 
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication

An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive 
win/lose health today or safety tomorrow survivalist
life or death revivalist

EcoFeminist MotherYang Warriors for GreenPeace Experience
or DeGenerative LoseLose...

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Categories: in the beginning, education, health, history, integrity, light, peace, planet,
Form: Political Verse

Hilda's Family Reunion

Paddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many...

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Categories: in the beginning, family, marriage,
Form: Prose
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The External World of The Internal



“The External World of the Internal”

when the Internal 
finally woke up,

it was like all the words 
in that book, flew at It 
like flaming arrows, 
an external barage, a tale, 
of trading 10 for 50,
a...

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Categories: in the beginning, humanity, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative

A Different Tune

Everybody is singing a different tune
Everybody is dancing to a different beat
Everybody is praying to a different God
And here I am feeling very sad
I am here, you are there but I have no fear

The politicians...

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Categories: in the beginning, america, appreciation, christian, community, endurance, faith, growth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Goose Eggs

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the...

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Categories: in the beginning, abortion,
Form: Prose

Church Bulletin For Today

Venite
Come let us sing to the Lord;*
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving*
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
For the Lord is...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the beginning, analogy,
Form: I do not know?

Where My Soul Belongs

While a part of my soul longs,
To be carried away,
Far far,
From myself,
To another world,
To a mountain top,
To a lonely place,
To where the air is thin and light,
To where sensations stop,
To where feelings end,
To where noise...

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Categories: in the beginning, identity,
Form: Free verse
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Heavens's Poker Game

In the beginning after God had finished creating this land.    
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky 
He watered the...

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Categories: in the beginning, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form: Rhyme
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Ten Interpretations of John 1-1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Take your pick! Or better still, self realise your own insight.

Interpretation of the agnostic: 

Original thought is energy created...

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Categories: in the beginning, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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Faded Dreams

Since my early teens until I reached about 45,
I had pursued my life's dream of working fulltime
in the Gospel Ministry.  There were many aspects
whereby such a dream could express itself and be
fulfilled.  For...

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Categories: in the beginning, america, career, christian, freedom, happiness,
Form: Narrative
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The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World

I.

In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of consciousness striking against the drumhead of reality.

Listen: the Buzz Roll...

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Categories: in the beginning, childhood, identity, introspection, loss, memory, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Spoken Word

The Shelter In the Night

The blue sky with its bright light is moving over my head and the
wind is dancing in the poppy bed, the deers are scampering on the
shores and here you are holding up the process and...

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Categories: in the beginning, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, community, confidence, courage, leadership,
Form: Narrative
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From Spirit to Flesh



Peaceful existence as a Being of light;
Not of flesh, not of clay, nor soil, yet made.
Created with the Breath of Life. 
     Spoken into miraculous awareness from the lips of The...

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Categories: in the beginning, angel, bible, creation, death, evil, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
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Lgbt Liberty Litany

Lord, please have mercy. Lord, please have mercy on us
Father Christ, please have mercy. Father Christ please have mercy on us
Lord, please have mercy. Lord, please have mercy on us
Father Christ, graciously hear us. Father...

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Categories: in the beginning, america, christian, god, jesus, men, spiritual, women,
Form: Narrative

Jesus Christ a Perfect Sacrifice

Jesus is the word of God, through him all things are made
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 
And the Word was God
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us
So...

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Categories: in the beginning, baptism, bible, blessing, christian, dedication, devotion,
Form: Rhyme Royal
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The Echoes of My Past

The echoes of my past come
as a rumbling noise or a murmur
reminding me what I had gone through
and how I got to where I am now.

The twirls, the turns, the detours,
the deviations I took in...

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Categories: in the beginning, break up, family, freedom, heartbreak, loss, moving
Form: Free verse
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