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Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional 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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Categories:
resort to, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Calculating Costs of Hate CrimesWherein 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
What Kind of People Are WeWhat 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
The OutlanderI 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
TranmutationWritten 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 sleepGloriously 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
Deprived Of Your LoveGlib 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 ManYou 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
RevolutionREVOLUTION
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 PalmsRemorseless 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
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable 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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Categories:
resort to, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Christmas Eve In JamaicaI 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 SleepGloriously 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
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
A Model For Our TimesAs 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
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IICONTINUES 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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Categories:
resort to, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Jackal and Hyde PrideYour 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
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
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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Categories:
resort to, adventure, corruption, future, poetry, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Prose
Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxiv Part OneUnquotable 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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Categories:
resort to, allegory, heaven, humanity, leadership, myth, power, spiritual,
Form:
Epigram
Unquotable Quotes: Evil People - ViiilUnquotable 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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Categories:
resort to, abuse, evil, leadership, people, power, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Disarray and DismayI’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-LaSo 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 charactersInauguration 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