Long Institutes Poems

Scotch Tape Sweepstakes

The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
applied in an innovative manner
allowing, enabling, and providing me
the means and ways to affix...

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He had sleepless dreams ....

Admiring trillions of Indians, he rose like a rose with colours of valour
Born in Rameshwaram village, to Jainulabdeen a poor boat owner.
Dreamt of changing the world with his venerated ardour 
Using...

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February 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 6-10

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do...

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Of course no one can predict the future and what is to happen.
History has a way of repeating itself that’s the way of things.
In Europe, Germany has the strongest economy that’s amazing isn’t it.
When they...

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If we have to make a new India we will have to do reforms in our education system and all these reforms have to start primary to higher education. We will take up reforms from...

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I saw tomorrow beckoning us just ahead, and it looks so unlike today.
I saw neither evil nor deception blocking our view and standing in the way.

I saw no race, no creed, no bad seed or...

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February 21 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 23-25

Key Verse – Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he...

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November 8 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Corinthians 5-7

Key Verse – 2Corinthians 6:2 For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now...

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My roommates and I
always have something to say.
We talk incessantly, like chirping birds.

We’re all reading the same large print here, and It suggests that college is almost over.
We’re bleeding time and there are dreams in...

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This is a friendship I would like to develop
from their time periods so different indeed
Joan the brave warrior for God's cause
John valiant for truth poor souls to feed

Joan, John says what was prison like?
being interrogated...

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We play in the streets shaded of grey
We sing and dance but in the saddest of ways
Duplessis turned us into little clowns
In boarding houses of very strange towns

Our mothers cried, we heard them we did
Crying...

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May 31 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 119:1-176

Key Verse – Psalm 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.   

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME

Thank You for teaching me Your...

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(This piece is dedicated to those innocent youths gunned down inside institutes of learning, by guns improperly regulated, and utilized by cold, heartless entities who committed these crimes without an iota of guilt or remorse....

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Compassion Towards Humanity

As I take a look around myself, I see
Life, so full of sufferings and strife;
Let me render a service towards humanity,
Before I welcome the sunset of my life.

What I see is natural calamities,...

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All true power that manifests, and creates comes from The Almighty Lord God.
We did not create Love, Love created us and supplied us with this bountiful earth on which we trod.
We are a living, breathing,...

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Prevention!
The stars sing to me
to set up games
to look for players
to save my life
from the sick world of satanic cults....
I know you're thinking
How do I know?

I'm the modern day
David Gayle
She swallowed the key
She wrapped the...

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We have a beautiful liturgy
so dramatic and impressive 
that one may be glued to it,
be involved and participate.

It presents a new movement,
along with its recurring theme,
a celebration of life and promises
that God, our Savior, makes...

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A paradise of nature eloquent flowers bouquets sculpted by a spiral maze:
that has yellow, orange, pink, red roses with a rich redolent scent phase

Lilies, lilacs tulips, daisies, daffodils, buttercups of bountiful blooms; 
all have an...

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Who cries for them for they do not weep?
Who cares for them for many do not keep?
Who sees for them for their eyes are shut?
Who eats for them of serving an empty gut?

The sun is...

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Thelonious Monk
piano keyboard prophet
harmonizing scales

Melody from flat to sharp
rhythm soothing to the soul


Comments:  Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is recognized as one of the 
most influential figures in the history of Jazz. He was one...

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Depression

Its an overbearing

Feeling of sorrow

There are therapists

Counselors

Mental institutes

and prescribed medications

to rid this word called depression

in ones life

many people don't

know the defined meaning of

this word called (depression)

but I myself do

it's the striving attempts of

oneself to live...

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In time, days, months to years

Is the failure of relationships
In January to July to December

And the shallow of rivers
In July, August to September

The destruction by earthquakes
In January, February to December

The reshuffle of accidents
In lakes, roads...

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Not
the dripping words from rotund cheeks
Or 
the mesmerized audience in fashionable conferences
Not
the frantic letters pawned from sacred pages
Nor
the cowering force of conviction in hallowed institutes
Neither
the skewed statistics manufactured on swivelling chairs
Abi
omniscient,omnipresent hard-mini-traitors know me
Rather,
I am...

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In time, days, months to years

Is the failure of relationships
In January to July to December

And the shallow of rivers
In July, August to September

The destruction by earthquakes
In January, February to December

The reshuffle of accidents
In lakes, roads...

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Two-digit growth rate
Is essential for
Least developed countries
To come out of
Vicious circle of poverty
Within a short timeframe
But it’s not the only precondition 
For higher standard of living
Of the people
Since if a LDC achieve
Two-digit growth rate
But its...

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