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Premium Member Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
This is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India. 





Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons! 
Life is a difficult  salvation, they don't have that knowledge", 
After...

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Categories: pretext, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI  Part One

Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Kingdom of My Embrace
"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
possessions of the heart,...

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Categories: pretext, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxix - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like An Un-Licensed Dog
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXIX -  Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Dog !

IF ever I had a country, a country certainly 
not subject to the whistle of a...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, america, fantasy, firework, humor, power, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Double House
I was charged one morning with the task to consider,
That certain notions of who I was,
Had merely become a pretext for avoiding
Becoming someone else. 

In the world I faced a new coordinate system was needed.

I...

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Categories: pretext, allusion,
Form: Free verse



A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte
A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte 

specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
but proceeded as this scribe 
didst git linkedin with the cutting crew,
mow or less feeling grassy us,
yet not the...

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Categories: pretext, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration, confusion, fashion, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Communique From Gethsemene
The pretext of my residency here seems to have exhausted itself. I now find myself in need of offering an explanation for the immediacy of my departure. No doubt certain obvious reasons will come unprompted...

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Categories: pretext, allegory, dark, solitude,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes With More Cricketing Jargon - Xi
Take your own sweet time, and let others keep time.
Tea for two always ends up in a hell-uv-a bellowing brew ;    
        tea and sympathy...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, games, humor, humorous, seasons, time, word play,
Form: Epigram
Hazrat Bilal Habshi
Bilal ibn Rabah (580–640 AD) also known as Bilal ibn Riyah, and ibn Rabah), was one of the most trusted and loyal Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and...

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Categories: pretext, africa, destiny, faith, islamic, prayer, slavery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Alien
Listen to the sonorous tones 
of silence secluded in sighs,
Blind to every sight of reality,
with kaleidoscope vision and spider 
eyes.
Revisions perfected the proper 
cocktail
for soaring with earth beneath my 
stance.
For the chance of painting smells...

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Categories: pretext, introspectionme, voice, me, voice,
Form: I do not know?
Collective Sin Is a Virtue
united states are in debt most
kingdoms countries are in deficit
they have beautiful cars great highways
bread to eat water to drink and almost
free air to breathe
so dont worry about debts deaths and deficits
we are all in...

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Categories: pretext, philosophy, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
' Which Is Allegorical and Which Is Real (Radical) ? ... '
The Bible Itself, Explains Itself   (2 Pet. 1: 20)
Explains It Better, Than Anyone Else
Once, It’s Taken Off The Shelf
& Explore Complete Message Left

The Bible Tells, Which Words Are Allegorical    ...

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Categories: pretext, devotion, faith, family, history, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 9
Make haste to befriend the toro meanly reared away from spectator prying eyes
         by dread alone the bull is nurtured and prodded to terrify
   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, inspirational, power,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
An Analysis of Sadness
Start
The other day I heard my friend was sad.
I met him to ask him about the reason
but, he was upset and his mood was very bad.
So I had to confine my conversation to the season
and...

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Categories: pretext, sad,
Form: Sestina
Curriculum Vitae
Some watching my ease
Of execution of the self
The latent anxiety unteased
Writes me off in simplicity.
Some denuding me of honor's wealth
Wait in turmoil 
For a scab to fall and unveil its pus
And if I do not...

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Categories: pretext, faith, introspection, me, world, heart, heart, me,
Form: Free verse
When you sang, dreams croaked, then you ceased to be a volcano
When you sang, dreams croaked, then you ceased to be a volcano,
It was simpler to become a rock, not letting yourself be unraveled by the waves of myopia.
After seasons died in your arms, resigned to...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, song,
Form: Free verse
The Oath
The great mother to whom I cry
But when will your mind be to laugh
Or mouth in joy of peace it seeks
When will happiness to brethren smiles
To him your joy afar in miles
The treasure your children...

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Categories: pretext, africa, corruption, sad,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Conspiracy and Evil Surmising
I am a Victim, 
Lured by mascara, and by a pretext piety 
Induced through lust by immoral vermin 

I am a Victim 
Blindfold through cunnings to fest on a plowed field, 
“Whore scammed”, trapped in...

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Categories: pretext, abuse, death, depression, divorce, emotions, father, introspection,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Along Dry Path
Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid  
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes 
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garnet sand raw vehicle 
garden common opal 
transit sidestep
to a multiverse 
of...

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Categories: pretext, august, birth, celebration, character, courage, dream, environment,
Form: Free verse
Top Secret From the Poetrysoup Undercover Agent: Re, Aliens
Keep this under your hat, guys....I'm just back from an undercover investigation of 
what turned out to be a real hidden nest of Alien invaders....they foolishly made 
serious strategic mistakes, which, of course, your favorite...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, adventure, confusion, mystery, native american, on work
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Martial Dances
We live in strange times, my brother 
men make money 
with war dances 
and occupation... 
Do you not see the bombardments 
and the pillaging? 
Under the boot 
you are worn out, 
these days 
the sweat...

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Categories: pretext, inspirational, nostalgia, social, war, love, money, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Way Out Over Copland's Appalachian Springs
We dragged the slopes to our feet.
On the summit, we burnt our clothes
for wood and there shuffled our feet
in the hush of the falling snow.
 
We had come out of the scuffed grass.
 
With one...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretext, inspirational, fire, fire,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Silence
Shhh!  We turned at the sound and beheld the stern scowl of the public library monitor as she admonished us.  Steely eyed, with piercing glance, jaw set so tightly even her wrinkles retreated...

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Categories: pretext, 6th grade, books, childhood, courage, giggle, humorous,
Form: Narrative
The Lectures
I was strolling down a side street of our little town last night.
Did I say strolling, no that’s wrong; I was a sad and sorry sight,
And God knows what the time was, but I knew...

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Categories: pretext, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Brushstroke Choreographing Dramatic Elegy Framing Harmonic Gavotte Up Today
specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
   but proceed as this scribe 
   doth git linkedin with the cutting crew
yet not the least whirlwind will offset 
  ...

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Categories: pretext, anxiety, games, hair, happiness, inspiration, magic, senses,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things