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A learned man in his discourse once said,
Fear sin, fight with and save from sin your skin,
To which a long silent sage objected:
Stop this slaughter of self, sink in your sin.
The learned man looked up from his discourse
To say, what a fine mantra: Sink in sin!
And asked: I’ve got the cart, pray, where’s the horse?
Here ‘tis: Seek thy solace from what has been,
Beware, never to think of mind’s monkey.
It’s hard still to keep one’s monkey at bay,
More ye try to miss, more it gets naughty,
An humble man from crowd had this to say:
Fight nor fear sin, nor run away from scene,
As witness watch from wings— involved, nor keen.
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Sonnet | 05.02.14, revised Jan 2025| humour, mind
Poet’s note: One’s true Self is atman, body nor mind, nor intellect. Atman is an enabler and never acts, but merely watches as a witness. If you try to keep mind away from sin, the mind will think all the more of sin. So, watch the mind’s monkey as a witness.
A cage not of your making
your own expiration date
Your mother branded you with it
and made you wear it even to date
It was announced at family dinners
with strangers in the room
It was told to every family friend
of my own impending doom
How it made me feel was not considered
not given a meager thought
She just had to get that out there
because it was important and fraught
And then when I grew older and objected
she did it on the sly
Took aside my companions
and injected them with her sick dye
I was told I should never have children
I was told I should avoid many things in life
She colored my world and put me in box
and invaded my personal space causing strife
Till I ran away across several states
and she came to fetch me back
And then there was a kind of truce
as she knew I could leave and be free
And I also knew it, so I worked at emancipating me
So she instead worked on my boyfriends filling them full of lies
And I stopped bringing anyone home
and I lived completely outside
And I started a professional life and never again did the two meet
and she was not able to control my life again nor even make a peep
and then I had some peace.
The kicker? I was not sick, she was, but I was too young to know.
Artimus 9/23/23 9:25AM (C) Susan Manley
The marksmen took their position a century away from the target
The silhouette shape stood defenceless at the far end of the range
A clear sign of an alarmingly unequal contest in difficult times
Fred was unhappy with this situation of involuntary manslaughter
Had objected on conscientious grounds to Armed Forces conscription
But the killers knew his values and morals seemingly better than him
Align eye with sight and with aim breathe out firm grip on the trigger
'Better dead than red' the sergeants had shouted and 'men don’t refuse'
'Hit the bastards right where it counts be kind with a quick speedy death'
His shooting lane was number three and he deemed that good fortune
‘Bang’ and he released the bullet and felt only mild pain in his shoulder
Like a true connoisseur he waited for the results to be transmitted
Tension mounted the drama unfolded and Fred was an unlikely champion
Lane score results: One 48 Two 48 Three 0 Four 48 and 48 Five 48
Fred had a fine subtle point of some opposition and Either Can Win
02nd May 2018
Written for contest: crap shoot
Sponsored by John Lawless
I took the contest description as offering 4 possible sub themes to chose from
I chose 'Either Can Win'
Shadow World
Wondering off the world are shadows
Trees tried to stay behind
To settle with the sun of red, to make it right and just
Beyond its light
Something wrong had happened to its core
The star focused on objects in reflection
Had nothing left to give to life but death
Objected to moving things in general
With indifference there
Exploded with anticipation of the night
Could not contain dark places looking for escape
Colors could hardly stick to trees
Stationary in their place as was their nature
Seemingly anesthetized to numbness by the sudden blast
Anathematized or cursed
Trees were the last to stand
They held themselves in dirt
And could not reason with the star
Executed on the spot along with every form of life
For failure to do their job
No one or thing had a say in this grave matter
All things destroyed in one quick flash of light
To become a splinter in the eye of sun as it went nova
And when the planet settled into total darkness
To become an empty orb
When the sun lost power
To become the dark
Sunk in on itself and vanished
No one said a prayer
For no one was there to care
Or left alive in Shadow world
A burnt out cinder
A meal is not a meal to me
Unless it has dessert.
When looking at a menu,
I kick in to high alert.
I have my favorites but at times
I’ll sample something new
And that is how a special treat
Came up for my review.
When dinner ended (Mexican),
We gave our guest the choice.
“Tres Leches cake” is what he chose;
I didn’t quite rejoice.
For it was unfamiliar
And like flan’s what I envisioned;
Since we were sharing, though, I’d bow
To what I’d not decisioned.
To my surprise, Tres Leches cake
Was heavenly delight!
With berries and meringue on top,
I savored every bite.
Had I objected, ‘twould have been
A terrible mistake
And the proof is in, not pudding,
But within Tres Leches cake!
The left produces people, who sometimes give themselves away by quotes
Its amazing how many fall for this, and still give them their votes.
Bill Ayers said to kill all the rich and to bring the revolution home, kill your parents too
Amiri Baraka wanted poems to be daggers in the belly of the owner-Jew
James Carville said if you drag money through a trailer park, there's no telling what you'd find
Hillary Clinton despised the deplorables, her attitude wasn't kind
Chelsea Clinton called her Secret Service agents "personal trained pigs", a phrase that was terse.
They objected, then she said her parents also called them that, which made things worse.
But at least Chelsea has honesty and explains
Novak described Hatred of George Bush unprecedented in a half century of campaigns
Judi Bari said that to save the ecology, we must destroy our free market, others agree
Jimmy Carter trusted the leader of North Korea, for his stop-nuke treaty
Lyndon Johnson said he would have black people voting Democratic for the next 200 years by giving them money
Doesn't quite show respect, the hypocrisy is quite funny.
RFK junior said that disbelief in Global Warming should be treated as treason,
If I were Trump, I'd stay away from him, just for that reason.
George Soros said that the main obstacle to a just World was the USA
Michael Swift, a gay activist, said "we will seduce your sons" and make them gay.
All this is depressing, from what rock do these types emerge?
Perhaps we should add to poetrysoup a U.S. funeral dirge.
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?I sat before a jury I could not see,
?Yet I felt their eyes — cold, unblinking — pierce through me.
?No one told me the charges I faced,
?But deep within, I knew each one by name.
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?My thoughts were called as witnesses,
?And they did not lie —
?Each memory spoke with vivid clarity,
?Reciting every failure I tried to bury.
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?I objected to the pain —
?But the judge in my mind overruled me.
?My silence was mistaken for guilt.
?My reasons, twisted into excuses.
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?I tried to plead — to explain the scars,
?But they asked why I never tried sooner.
?Why I let the days drown me without protest.
?Why I waited until now to speak.
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?I said I was afraid.
?They called it weakness.
?I said I was tired.
?They said I had time.
?
?I said I didn’t know how.
?They said I never asked.
?I said I was doing my best.
?They asked, “Was it enough?”
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?I cried,
?And they called it performance.
?I laughed,
?And they called it madness.
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?I stood still,
?And they asked if I had given up.
?I fought back tears,
?And they accused me of hiding truth.
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?Every word became a weapon.
?Every pause, an admission.
?Every breath, an echo of shame.
?
?I turned to the judge —
?Only to find it was me all along.
?
?The trial ended.
?The sentence:
?Live with the weight of your own verdict.
?
?And as the gavel of thought struck final,
?I whispered a prayer —
?Not for freedom…
?But for peace.
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SECRET OF LOVE
Secret of my love sank in despondence.
Love once flashed, flourished in fervent fervour.
Preserved -reserved feelings on confidence :
Two hearts to flow in romance for ever.
Rippling in rapture me floated in tide.
Bubbling blood flooded yearnings to swim
Frolic feelings I never tried to hide !
But allowed free fly to soar high on whims.
It seemed I achieved all my fulfilment.
To live with my love felt earnest desire.
Even to die just now, I won’t repent.
I have attained victory for life entire.
Life unfolding soft petals of amour.
Rolled on glorious gorgeous glamour.
Rolled on glorious gorgeous glamour.
Me the happiest powerful being.
In vibrant youth thought self an emperor.
Every season appeared as shiny Spring.
Blown breeze carrying romantic aroma.
Dormant dreams welcoming pearly passion
Emerald emotion in dilemma.
Urge oozing surging in graceful fashion.
Promised to continue joint journey.
Devotion - dedication not much less
Yet I lost you my sweetheart, my Honey !
Destiny objected further progress.
Inevitable was separation
Love not tied on social unison .
Love not tied on social unison.
Territory of love was built in vain.
Complexity coiled on conclusion.
Emotive urge ended up in piercing pain..
Bound to move in different directions .
Absolute no chance to meet on this life.
as thrown on separate destination .
I could not honour you as my sweet wife.
We met again to sigh on bygone days !
I asked" Has our amour lost its flavour? "
She answered " Stars are hidden in Sun rays .
I am and will remain yours for ever. "
Tears flowed and flowed and flowed in opulence.
Secret of love sank in despondence .
My children begged me to get on Facebook
Because they are girls and changed their names when they married
They knew their friends could spell my name
Few people have our last name
And almost no one spells Karen with a C
Like my mother did
I opened an account, not understanding it much
Looking up names of people I used to know was addictive
I spent hours sending friend requests
I also found other Carens with my spelling
I sent them friend requests
Got a warning from Facebook
There were complaints about this
If I did not stop contacting Carens, they were shutting my account down
I put my grandchildren’s pictures up
My children objected; apparently sex traffic people can use those photos
So, I took them down
Now I post photos of my dogs and my artwork. I feel safe so far.
Europe is stuck in the past
Europe’s leaders have to see that the world has changed but continue to pursue a globalist agenda through the EU, where all of Europe’s nations from the cold North to temperate Spain should speak with the same voice, in happy unity
The Great Victor Orban disagreed and was hated, he believed that individual countries should decide their own future to create, if you like, a multi-power structure; globalists angrily objected to this state of affairs
Up from dark minds the Russia hatred arose among the leaders, suggesting they could arm Ukraine to go on fighting a lost war but the people do not fear Russia, in Norway it is a place for shopping, buying Russian vodka and so on
In Norway, whoever party is in charge lays down laws restricting what their inhabitants can do or not do and think, knowing what is best for the people believe, and they are not ashamed to bring religion into this. This is a micro-cosmos of
Europe’s strangulation of people’s free will and they have the nerve call this social democracy which to a set of rules that is an enemy of free will, free expression where people are banned for having an opinion contrary to officialdom
You might think restriction of booze and how much vodka you can take home after a trip to Russia, by-laws are made to make you safe and before you know, you can be arrested for carrying a cigarette lighter in your pocket