Long Incurs Poems

“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.

Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...

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"Circadian"



In the garden
I planted for you,
somewhere in 
the unplundered
Territory of Hypothalamus,
I found a flower 
who’s name was
You Wouldn’t Know the Truth
“God Help Us”
cried the lost 
Praying Mantis,
“Hear this, the journey
towards Light 
incurs a deep dive...

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“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch

Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games which now threaten to leave us
merely meaningless footnotes?

Someone’s...

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"Louis!",she calls out.
Yes,ironically I am the namesake.
A signboard-Please don't hurt me.I'm blind.

"Are you lost in thought again?
You and your stupid world!"
My stupid world.
I see her bite her tongue in my mind.
A smile on my lips.

"I...

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Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

The following extrapolated 
thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house ass-sized.

As a former ace procrastinator, I abhor
putting off doing...

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THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897

[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to respect and fear....

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(the following extrapolated 
     thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
     how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house as-sized).

as a former ace procrastinator, i abhor
 ...

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Creativity emerges with two wings,
One aids her flying.
The other like a sting,
That aids her on intuity piercing.
But she looses her wings,
Left with one but nothing.

Music pitch her tent on the mountain,
She travels from dale to...

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Perhaps sometimes you wonder
When life seems misery and pain
How do you rise to greet the morning
Or begin to smile again?
Where do you find the strength to go on
With dear ones so cruelly lost?
How can you...

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Now, as a general rule, sergeants are rather decent guys,
Compassionate, reasonable to a degree and uncommonly wise.
But woe to the private who incurs a sergeant's wrath;
That young feller is destined to tread a very treacherous...

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Sheltering myself from unhappy thoughts,
is recalling those serene days on deserted shores...
picking up empty shells discolored and broken,
they mean squalor to the vagrant who has awoken!

Instantly I'm overtaken by the somber winter's blues,
it's the sureness...

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To be on water is to be of water I'm told
The sea a deep blue and unsettling cold
Offshore waves roar in and relentlessly roll 
Cleansing rounds that forcefully come and go
In many ways water is...

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In youth, I wrote many poems of rhyme,
	quatrains flowing freely on the lines.
Here and there a couplet would unwind
	and on occasion quintains undefined.
As time progressed, I tried my hand
	at Japanese Haiku and tanka you
	but mine...

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Advice from Kaali Hindu Goddess
Cry for the birds whose babies have fallen out of nests
Cry for the wolves who could not feed their young
Cry for the streams polluted by companies who did not care

Cry for...

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What price must we pay,
To simply be?
The toll for existence,
Incurs a fee.

Each breath we take,
Each step we make,
Extracts a cost,
A price we must pay.

We pay for food, water,
For all resources consumed,
For heat, power, light,
For each...

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When hues collide, a stark and brutal scene,
Black bruises blooming where the light once played,
And blue, a sorrow, silent and unseen,
Beneath the surface, where the heart's betrayed.

Is this the canvas where our truths reside?
A testament...

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Invoice for work that you have done;
Make sure you know how much to charge;
Print out and jerk the actual run;
Accrue and show the cost of touch;
See to the cause of all that noise;
Sense what must...

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