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Deception Part 2 - Translation From Tagore

This is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted. 




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Categories: poverty stricken, life, women,
Form: Narrative


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The massive convoy of threats

Begins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction 
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break 
hard causing us to panic my spouse and I both disabled 
this has cause severe discrimination and victimization...

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Categories: poverty stricken, allah,
Form: Kyrielle

Stardust and the Ivory Castle

Once upon a time there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren, holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...

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Categories: poverty stricken, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
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Hunger Pangs

The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature 

Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name

Kanja meaning water born and his parents had hoped he would...

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Categories: poverty stricken, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Alms Za Try N To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe

Alms Za Try'n To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe

Yukon pots sib bully challah me Jude
dish hiss literary panhandler schlepping
along virtual figurative boulevard Asia
brogue kin bloke rattling tin cup aware
how quickly passersby dodge away as
if I...

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Categories: poverty stricken, dream, fate, happiness, hope, humanity, humorous, joy,
Form: Narrative


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The myth of white privilege and white supremacy part one Q and A

Q:  How did I realize the Woke Marxist anti-God is lying to the American public
      all about both white privilege and white supremacy? 

A:   This commentator and...

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Categories: poverty stricken, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose

A Ghost Longing For Mother

There was a man who survived through 
everything against his will while he was alive.

One day this man’s ghost arose, walked out of his grave and followed his footmarks on a rugged trail, hard and...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty stricken, longing, mother, son, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Chasing Dreams Is All I Have Left

He had high expectations. I was supposed to be one of his kept women. One of the many he had forced in his underground prostitution.

He realized the mistake he made

When he made an unsuccessful attempt.
...

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Categories: poverty stricken, anger, anxiety, black love, bullying,
Form: I do not know?

Memoir of An African-American Man, Achievement, Ii

Achievement, 2 of 2
                         —Time to share—

I cried and bewailed 
while...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty stricken, black african american, giving, military,
Form: Epic

No Better Tomorrow

****"No better tomorrow""***


Before the sun could have made its appearance,
her eyes are forced open,
with the outburst of the little one's patience;
Frustrated, sleep deprived and irritated, 
She jolts her head with the steel roof,
roof of sufferings,
covering...

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Categories: poverty stricken, absence, abuse, pain, poverty, truth, women,
Form: Lyric

Telling White Lies

Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,
experienced grinding poverty, no
matter maternal grandfather (Moishe
Kuritsky), a tailor he lacked drive
(and felt neutral...

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Categories: poverty stricken, abuse, age, america, anger, betrayal, cry, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Love Falls

You, my love, you
Entrusted me into the burning arms of fervor,
Rested your knowing fingers upon skin ever glistened with tears
Graced the breath I dared to breathe when moments masterfully collided

We stand upon the edge like...

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Categories: poverty stricken, adventure, body, for him, imagery, imagination, lust,
Form: Romanticism

Last-Minute Autumn

 dodoitsu series (rhymed) 

Winter is taking the reins
speeding past days of autumn -
Jack Frost smears the windowpanes
forefingers and thumb.

You who have no house to own,
too proud to seek charity,
you choose your path all alone
that’s...

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Categories: poverty stricken, 11th grade, home, winter, word play, work,
Form: Dodoitsu
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Unrequited Love

An ambitious druid set out to recover an omnipotent ancient fluid

She was a kind witch with a wee twitch about to discover a glitch

Laboured with great force to go back to the Source and in...

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Categories: poverty stricken, care,
Form: Rhyme

Telling White Lies

Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,

experienced grinding poverty, no
matter maternal grandfather (Moishe
Kuritsky), a tailor he lacked drive
to support his...

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Categories: poverty stricken, abuse, age, america, child abuse, cinderella, city,
Form: Ballad

Tethered and Toothless

beyond these shores
people live in destruction
they scramble from day to day
their existence is created by
the the ways and means of war
they are divided by doctrine
and each alliance
exploits their well being
beyond these shores
the tyranny of might
causes...

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Categories: poverty stricken, america, analogy, business, character, conflict, depression, humanity,
Form: Imagism
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The Passing of My Granny New

I deeply loved, my granny New,
The first to show me, she loved me too,
I remember in, my childhood days,
Together we had, very special ways,
To pass the hot, hot summer days.

We would go swimming,
In big Piney...

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Categories: poverty stricken, devotion, lovebeautiful, husband, beautiful, husband, love, me,
Form: Rhyme

Behind the Cold Bars

Poverty stricken,
Defrauding them was unintentional,
But the magistrate's judgement and sentence was constitutional.
We have been on the street,
Hustling, surviving but making money remains strict.

In prison,
the Black Maria opened and the warder uncuffed him like a preath,
There...

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Categories: poverty stricken, poverty, prison,
Form: Free verse

Fury For the Masses IV

Weapons of mass destruction 
a time for mass production 
this is the way the world will end 
in silence, this is the way the world
is ending in violence 

chaos, religion, and super media 
stars in...

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Categories: poverty stricken, allegory, allusion, anger, art, beautiful, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Economic Disparity Created During the Corona Phase

Economic Disparity created during the Corona Phase 


Death equalizes all at the end 
But sufferings are hugely different.
There cannot be any comparison 
Between the daily wage earners like
Vegetable vendors, itinerant traders
And the white collar employees;...

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Categories: poverty stricken, angst, conflict, international, social,
Form: Prose Poetry

Blinded By the Illusion

The multinational interview was easy and simple,
Even the unskilled and skilled passed, including the married and single.
Yet, he was denied. At home and heartbroken, he sobs in agony,
Life was just hard like a Mahogany,
His poor...

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Categories: poverty stricken, death, evil, money,
Form: Limerick
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12 Brothers Bearing Gifts

12 BROTHERS BEARING GIFTS

A Mother weeps, her child is born,
A Father poor sits all forlorn,
The wind howls through their shelter rough,
The wood for their fire is not enough.

And though no gifts can they bestow,
Of riches...

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Categories: poverty stricken, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
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12 Brothers Bearing Gifts

12 BROTHERS BEARING GIFTS       
 	
A Mother weeps, her child is born,
A Father poor sits all forlorn,
The wind howls through their shelter rough,
The wood for their fire is not...

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Categories: poverty stricken, life, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

"poor Castle"

I am what I am said a man,
                           ...

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Categories: poverty stricken, life, social, people, people, poverty,
Form: Couplet

Please Quietly Build Me a Flibbertigibbet

(alternately titled:
this stoned temple pilot ready for Styx)

I hate tubby a nuisance
     boot ma checking account...
suffered a major hit strafed
     with a shock king
   ...

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Categories: poverty stricken, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
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