Long Resentments Poems

I often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…

Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...

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A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost 
till it became...

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Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small national magazine....

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Last Night 
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...

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I walked pass the neighborhood restaurants and saw Americans
browsing on their laptops and having their Saturday evening meals
Some were having a serious chat over dinner
I could see angry faces filled with disappointments and resentments
There is...

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The Power of Forgiveness
By Reg Rhodes





Today, I found a key to set myself free from the nightmares of my own 
shattered reality.  

Today, with the key known as forgiveness;
I will cease to languish in...

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2013
Vicki Acquah


                                 SCOFFING...

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YELLOW BAG

Is there something you want to tell me?

for hours and hours your eyes
mirror doubts and resentments
but let it be... let it be...
I    truly   do   not  care....

I...

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Their love affair 
Was coming to an end
He'd felt the shadow 
Of it
For a while now

It started
With subtle 
Changes 
In her ways with him
Then ones so drastic
And harsh
He wondered 
If their love
Had ever even really...

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I had heard this song by an obscure artist, with a twist as it played verses 
of 'Somewhere over the rainbow, with 'What a wonderful' world entwined. 
It's simply melody strummed on a ukalele mesmerized...

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They’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping   up hallways   like teenage lovers.
Stairs and hopes creaking...

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Forgiveness
By Author Ren R. Royal

The world is full of differences we all proclaim is right, 
How can we let go of our indifferences,
And forgive instead of fight?

The world is full of people who will gain...

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Virtuous Vibes

Have peace abide in me and you
May happiness brew so true
Who knew...
I’d be without a clue
But, with God,
Anything is possible
He does the impossible
He loves us sincerely
He loves us dearly
He loves us vibrantly
He loves us...

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He suffered a plenty, but from deep within, he disconnected the suffering.
Whether on purpose or subconsciously, the disconnection was for his protection. He learned from experience and observation that survival and victimization do not mix....

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Voluntary unconditional surrender woke...,

Viz hitting yours truly,
when yokel egghead doth jinx
whereby ye cannot comprehend figurative
wimpy vainglory, unequivocally, tectonically,
smoldering resentments I stoke,

he doth bare his soul no joke,
no matter insight doth severely challenge
cyber surfing passersby, who...

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“The Shedding of our Skin” 
 
I am writing about the transition from lost now found, 
Darkness to light, one being into another, death to life, 
Old skin to new skin. 
Its like the rejuvenation of skin 
The restoring of flesh...

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I burrow in silence locked in the depths of a grave.
I need no more guidance as I dwell in my hollow cave.

Unknown whispers…they creek and moan and I am left breathless 
trying to pick up...

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The facade you subconsciously display--Is making a mockery of your beloved EGO.          
While In your mind your rich...        ...

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I sank so low, I settled on the oceans floor
No mammal no fish
I had no wants not one wish
I wanted to keep sinking more

I have explored here before
No one else wanted to go
The depths so...

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A single ray shone light through a knothole and anchored his thoughts

At daybreak for the spider-web’s shadow enlightened the beach hut

Tim had lived in a mansion but hardship had unburdened his soul

He was happy because...

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From a babe to a man, I needed your hand. Now I understand, it was part of God's 
ultimate plan. I was to be raised by another woman.  Don't get me wrong, Grandmomma was...

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The season of drought ravaging my heart ended on a mystical note,
It gave way to floods; massive and destructive;
Floods which pulled me in their flow
And bid me to sink in a pond
A pond made of...

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Translations of Urdu couplets and poems by Momin Khan Momin

Perhaps
by Momin Khan Momin
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
 
The cohesiveness between us, you may remember, or perhaps not.
Our solemn oaths of faithfulness, you may remember,...

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breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way into the appendages whar din o suckling provide
did initial sustenance...

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Old
Old is a key word
Old friend
Old friend come to the end

End
End is THE word
End of my old friend
End is REALLY the word

At first the news is surprising    shocking
The news is mystifying
My reaction...

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