Long Palanquin Poems

Stately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...

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I remember the first time I read a book,
then I went to the era of Robin Hook.


then eventually I used to become a character,
that I admired the most because of the chapter.


I have dined with...

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The sun rises on silky dunes that look like breasts. 
You are lost in the desert,
The air is dry and sandy residue explores your crevices.
Peripatetic genetrix,
Protector of sublime gifts passed on,
Heart of a warrior,
A duty...

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As I was set to go out on my horse 
One eve, despite pleads to stay from my course, 
Prone I was to take my hat from the rack, 
A whirlwind crested from the dusty...

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Guarded by towering hills on the East 
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell 
That lulls the restless waves to sleep, 
There is a land, my...

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Once upon a time,
When peace was at its prime.
The moon was always the light in the night,
Seeing flashing of teeth under the moonlight.
Songs from the heart rented the air,
Because it was an honor to bear....

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Cousin Donald Comes to Town ...

Elroy was all cock-a-hoop cos
cousin Donald was a-comin'
a visiting & they were so darn
chuffed & tremblin' in anticipation
that friday night the seven of them
in the one bed had a real...

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The old dog got a bit long in the once powerful teeth

Crushed his fangs on carrion left by the rest of the pack

	Pack of cards delivered by being

	Pack of lies suspended in truth

It was time...

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Afterwards, Mithila

Mithila, you may never know,
But I can sense- deep, unshakable…
Something strange stirs on my horizon.
Perhaps, a festive awaits,
A celebration of fleeting mortality
That rushes in, disrupting my dreams.

This life, Mithila,
Was never a weaver bird’s nest
Weaved...

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Crowned with a tiara,precious white,
crashing at the heels turquoise tide.
here all known colors exude through ,
at every step diversities brew.

The winds of past,
would forever last.
waltzing around the weaver's needle,
or reverberating through the artisan's chisel.

through the...

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the hill many people passed over
the hill, like a one, not too high or rough 
extended from the backyard of a hometown, 
the hill that is smoother and easier than a half moon

nevertheless, the people...

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From time immemorial, 
Man has been on an audacious quest,
To unravel the mysteries of life!

Like a mirror that sends back the rays, 
Falling on it, never letting them pass through,
Disabling us to see what lies...

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My heart is a plume renditioning over a lyre, my soul. 
You are but the fume of frozen fire, on parole.
I am a scintillating bud of ray in the moon,
You are a void sphere on...

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Oh ho! Hairstyle of hers has changed!

So different she looks today; mature and confident.

I like it. But oh! Her long old long tresses, I do miss...

Gaze I do, at her shining face, everyday

But I'm sad;...

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Oh man! Going in a golden palanquin
Ever thought, what is going on in those minds?
Of those, who are bearing your burden?
And those hundreds following your path, blind

Why they ignore their aching shoulders, and
Laugh at your...

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Night stirred memories, once forgotten of the days 
I burnt in love when you consumed my days,
and I carried you like a queen in the palanquin of my thoughts!

without forethought, to elbow out the marauding...

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Give me a drink for I have a 
prayer to say
A hard native brew for a strong 
supplication to Mawu. 

I shall call Okplejen the mighty 
God who bears the earth and 
her siblings. 
Then...

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In the hush of a fading twilight eve
Heard the passionate crooning of a dove
Under the eaves, it sat close to her love
What delight, that sound instantly gave

Sudden was the change it could impart
Brought forth a...

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Ludwig Leichart

This perplexing country,
(such an under statement),
where rivers run upside down,
marbles are strewn by the Devil
and Songlines
etched in memory are
sung by those few who know.
Seeking Victoria, 
the blazed trees could not help,
the Prussian collapsed, looking...

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Someone get me a Catholic Priest.
I have a confession to make. 
About how I doubted God-
By not believing in the magnificence of his creation. 
ME!

I told me lies that I believed like the Bible.
Chanted my...

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when a leader of the pallbearers stands high 
on the front of a funeral palanquin recites a dirge 
ringing a bell held in his hand

the pallbearers’ response to the dirge 
stepping one on forward and...

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1.Nothing betters life to
eminence and affluence.
2.Nothing profits than charity
forgetting is worse.
3.Perform charity wherever possible
thy can do.
4.True heart is charity
rest all exaggeration.
5.Evade envy, avarice, annoyance and
 coarse-words for charity.
6.Performing charity in youth
without postponing lasts.
7.Charity needs unexplainable...

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Holding the delicate hands of moonlit
I walked through the quixotic garden
Dragonflies flew over the pink flowers
As the starry neon light twinkled fairs

Wandered I sitting on the cloudy boat
Where the sprinkled fogs spread scent
Poetic loving sonnet...

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