Long Salves Poems

Patradoot or The Messenger26 /Many 
  
English version by  Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor


These Indian women, who were called salves of man,
And even...

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I can feel the sun warming my body and the universe telling me that it is sorry, the clouds are rolling by and the burden is lifted from the sky. The traffic is rolling and...

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Beware young lad, tis the dawning of thy demise,
For the water witches screams, are carried on the
Winds breath, of the tidal waves hurricane.
Be-she, the banshie of the fathom’s abyss, treacherous
Mistress, beguiling temptress, enslavement's captive, 
Whom...

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sitting fearfully 
with stubborn resolve 
warm cocoa simmering 
amongst whitewashed marshmallows
puffed up with self worth 
dusted with sugary arrogance

slurs stirring inside 
endlessly whipping frenzy 
to pleading eyes
she rode in silence 
speaking volumes 
that would sound...

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Alas; my maternal love couldn’t save you my beloved son, hence; 
in excruciating pain, I shed an ocean of tears asking why.
Was my love not enough or was it too much? Too much that you,
couldn’t...

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O The Pestilence ripens in the fields
as pest harvests  the shops and till 
Harvesting of diminished yields
To !REAL CONSPIRACY! 
Sovereignty-PIRACY, tips the scales of justice,
feilty, unity, irony


A question mark with its answer 
Written on...

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O Self Righteous Mew Martyred Lost
 unto
Dragons breath, and roasted lots 
amongst the spit and gradually heated pots
 crows, counted among the cost,
counting zeros,
onesies and Aftermath of Astral Thoths
Line by line
 into perdition we go...

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In battles hymn, raise your shield,
 Sharpen metals sword.
All hail bow low unto Rome,
 Be blinded by opulence's glitter,
And greed’s excess
Salves feel her golden sandles,
Upon bare skins flesh.
Shackles hand cuffs, bind generations,
 Under whips task...

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Walk does he not the specter of death, 
His saith raised high, even he himself has had
Enough killing, on the battlefield of Gettysburg,
Satan screams, stop sons of men, truly war
Is hell on earth.
Time's spiritual voices...

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"...I don't know its name"

BUT! 

Someone once said we were slaves to Fashion   
I think they are right we feel sad depressed happy 
or insane we go and buy a new dress a...

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She was of this rich 
          earth and clay
a beautiful lass so full of life 
and so wont at play
who used to water ski 
 ...

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GOD
Is god alive? Does he/she really exists and if they really exist there would have been some physical process by which they would have made known to us. 

Let me tell you from my experience...

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Whence it came it did not say
unwelcome it decided to stay
Like a ghost it seem to float in the air
glance twice and was it ever here
From the land where the sea foam sprays
the morning moon...

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The early years of her life seemed riddled with emotional scares;
but in time, though she had no sign of any timelines, she would heal.

She came from a long line of rain forests, forests that had...

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I am giving up on poets for
a day – not poetry! just needing a break 
from Communal Escapism: I mean, it is
nice to write of meadows and bird songs – 
of the past, how things...

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Angela, sweep hence these leaden clouds.
Music, they say, can cheer the saddest heart.
Euterpe bids her frowning father smile,
so let her now reveal her powers to me.

And yet you play a doleful Orphic strain.
O let me...

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To Mend a Broken Heart
by M. Griswold
06222020

To mend a broken heart what medicines do I use.
What salves does one apply for healing to infuse.
Is there needle and thread to stitch it's torn edges.
Or sorrow's tears...

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"Terraforming"
 


She creates her new world
crackling life between her thighs
birthing the pains of man 
ever constant terraforming 
she reigns 
magnanimously 
in her power
holding his imagination 
in her warm palms
like twin marbles burning;

Sun and Moon kiss
in...

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God’s plan has worked beautifully. 
I now know what sixteen days of pure hell feels like.
I understand more about chronic pain, and I will have more empathy than ever before.
I had no idea this was...

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Willow patterns chase around a bowl
Through pictographs of bluest tide,
Paper tigers and some bitter rice
When you became some others’ bride.

Sampan glides across a lily pond,
Ornamental and pristine,
Crimson dragons and a sky-ward kite
Their tails of envy...

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May I serve
whatever the capacity --

and not be dissuade;

God knows His faithful,
not by glitter
nor by volume of voice,
but by salves of compassion

knowing no color
knowing no shades
nor party of affiliation

may I nurse humbly, soothing
and healing, while...

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Cowboys herdin’ cattle cross dusty trails
Sandy hooves paint ground fog in their wake
Shuffling along swattin’ flies off molty hides
Riders amble aside keeping eye on their stake

Chuck wagon camps, setting up by a creek
Beans and pan...

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It is,

The fountain of my strength…my resolve. 
Every face of my charity, my aspirations
From which I draw my every thought

That impetus which drives me forward
Soft illusory colours that decorate dreams
Those cooling salves that ease my...

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The tender touch of death 
wafts o'er eyelids fraught with grieving loss
promising surcease of sorrows 
druids in the shadows 
whisper ing
balms,salves in songs
of ancient rhymes
chanting 
softly
in the 
moonlight
tombs 
soothing
sighing
seraphs
flying
In your mind
you know you're 
dying
Wake Up...

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Another day at the gym,
Pumping iron for the swell.
Aching muscles feeling grim,
As I put myself through hell.

Boneless chicken that I bake,
Egg whites keep me lean.
Protein powders in a shake,
With a dose of creatine.

Heavy squats inflate...

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