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Premium Member Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]

K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resort to, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member Calculating Costs of Hate Crimes
Wherein lies the great dividing moral distinction
between hate crimes of socioeconomic historic proportion
distorting multiculturally synergetic re-ligious communication,
out-glaring more mundane popularity of defiance crimes
against a more personal sacred nature?

Why is society's right to aggressively imprison unto...

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Categories: resort to, addiction, hate, health, love, political, power, prison,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What Kind of People Are We
What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...

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Categories: resort to, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...

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Categories: resort to, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form: Ballad
Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep
"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"




The silent heart is found 
embedded in the 
Cathedral of 
The Forest Deep

The lost jewel
shines in the dark
see the reflection of emerald eyes
endless hazel woods scried

On Christmas Eve
when...

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Categories: resort to, christmas, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Tranmutation
Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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Categories: resort to, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...

versus being alive 
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,  
(whereat Musk bribed 
significant number of voters
handing out wads of cash)
courtesy underhanded modus operandi
and...

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Categories: resort to, absence, america, angst, beautiful, courage, death, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deprived Of Your Love
Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...

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Categories: resort to, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
Unscrupulous Man
You crawled out of her innocent womb 
Kicking , begging and screaming
But it is too late for you to be redeemed 
You were born evil and corrupted 
and you have a  very  dirty...

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Categories: resort to, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation, earth, encouraging, women,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Revolution
REVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see 
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen can expose the enemies of the state
Present and judge valid...

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Categories: resort to, betrayal, corruption, evil, fear, irony, power, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Remorseless Sweaty Palms
Remorseless sweaty palms

despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent wracking wrath of mental illness, that even as a middle...

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Categories: resort to, 12th grade, anger, blue, care, crazy, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resort to, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form: Epigram
Christmas Eve In Jamaica
I stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...

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Categories: resort to, beauty, business, celebration, christmas, community, courage, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...

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Categories: resort to, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In a ricochet of emotion I just cannot speak 

Our time...

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Categories: resort to, lost love, lust, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Model For Our Times
As the sun shone in southern skies, I was finally on my vacation,
And I turned the pages of a magazine, with new fashion creations.

I lounged beside the resort pool, in a straw hat and sunglasses,
Sipping...

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Categories: resort to, dream, fantasy, fashion, future, love, magic, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART II
CONTINUES PART II:

Then she departs, ... his newfound friend
stands (clueless me, no intro of her) I with Rick ... waiting
wife comes--(Hellooo Oh) newfound by brochure stand
he says, "My wife Kris." "Hm" <--(My utterance--smiling, as I'm...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resort to, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form: Narrative
Jackal and Hyde Pride
Your passionate, unneeded pride...
Is hard to swallow, so I’m waiting for another tomorrow
Going along with the rowdy ride
Still feeling so low…but I must stay high, you know?

I want to glow bright and grow and not...

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Categories: resort to, angst, emotions, endurance, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member April Fools For Bobby Lee
“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106

When something is broken, it’s no longer of any...

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Categories: resort to, allegory, break up, history,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Playing God

An eerie wind blows through the decaying bushes on the outskirts,  
while a rusted door sways on its broken hinges.  
The smell of ozone lingers from thunder cracking in the distance,  
as...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resort to, adventure, corruption, future, poetry, science fiction, symbolism,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxiv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen* – XXIV-Part One

The Uhr-Father of the embodiment of spiritual power since the Middle Ages must certainly have been the Witch-Doctor of primitive societies who shared power with the Headman...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resort to, allegory, heaven, humanity, leadership, myth, power, spiritual,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Evil People - Viiil
Unquotable quotes : EVIL PEOPLE – VIIIL (42)

Animals (amphibians, reptiles),  birds, insects, dinosaurs and even imaginary beasts kill to eat. Humans for pleasure, pain and profit.

Evil people never think of Evil lest they feel...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resort to, abuse, evil, leadership, people, power, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Disarray and Dismay
I’ve endured a thousand thunderstorms in my brain
I’ve cured a thousand more to feel your rainfall’s pain
I’m apologetic for the wrongs I’ve done to you and all,
But I will not fall for your gain’s sake...

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Categories: resort to, betrayal, forgiveness, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Shangri-La
So I wrote again. This took longer than it should have. Only fair to warn you, this is a long one.

SHANGRI-LA

Prologue

The village gates stood, like old men stand

Worn with age and bent by time

Rust had...

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Categories: resort to, adventure, angst, death, faith, family, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
i did not use special characters
Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The late reverend American minister and activist,
now and forever more immortalized in the promised land
despite his work among...

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Categories: resort to, america, anger, angst, anxiety, atheist, humorous, scary,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things