Long Shadorma Poems

“ the problem with Equality is that we desire it only with our superiors”


“Equal were all and happy they all were,
Deceits and falsehoods were unheard of there,
Free from all illness, cares and infant deaths
No one...

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Just a stray
                                ...

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Relentless.
My life keeps rolling
down the same
old train track
Chugga-chugga-chugga-chug!
rhythm in my brain

Like toy trains
mechanical and
steady, their
throbbing beat
predetermined path repeats
predictable loop

One track mind
takes me nowhere, but
feels oddly
comforting
stifling complacency
the near death of me

Frenemies
my lagging caboose
I let loose
so relieved!
Plugging...

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Panchmukhi Ganapati

Five faced Ganapati relates to embodiment of all potencies
They symbolize the five fleshes in the subtle anatomy felt.

The flesh body, the breath or energy body, mental body
Body of upper consciousness and body of Cosmic...

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"I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)I am never without it"

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John a Dear Friend Gone
"I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart) I am never without it"
 Quote _ by E.E. Cummings
Miss you John
A dear friend has gone 
So used to
Seeing you
In the...

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~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)


Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!

Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend

Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets 
With threads knotted
Made...

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A Shadorma


Oh spectre
of the blackest ink,
satin shroud
feathering;
ignorance begets terror
though you are a bird.

Poe’s penning
only adds darkness
to legends
greatest plight;
feared by those who believe myth,
unfounded tall tales.

Cailleach did
feast on men’s bodies
in disguise,
a raven,
her dark disguise projecting
into human...

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Triple Scenes On Life, Love Powers And Faith

Come light come
Invade willing soul
O bless be
Life to thee
Knowing dark world takes its toll
Eat from love's sweet tree.

Come night come
See Heaven's bright moon
Hold that sight
True love's light
Understanding arrives...

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Through graveyard
meandering, just
me and Dad
stories sad
abbreviated down to
mostly names and dates

So we tell
their stories by turns
like poor Duane
Dinwiddie
died at age thirty-three of
bee sting allergy

So tragic
how she caught a chill
Angeline
age nineteen
who died before her wedding
day, her...

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Unlikely
this romance between
Miss Cricket
and stodgy
Buddy Biddle, so stagnant
set in his ways, stuck

While Cricket
eighty-nine years young
dances rings
around him
full of impish energy
mischievous antics

He proposed
but Miss Cricket won't
marry him
knows better
she's outlived countless lovers
and won't be tied down

She's having
way...

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(Inspiration: Meat Loaf’s lyric found in Deb’s blog)

And I won’t write a poem  for a contest
Whoever asks and whatever the provocation
Day or night, rain or shine, east or west
I wont write any more for...

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~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)


Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!

Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend

Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets 
With threads knotted
Made...

Read More

~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)


Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!

Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend

Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets 
With threads knotted
Made...

Read More

~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)


Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!

Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend

Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets 
With threads knotted
Made...

Read More

~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)


Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!

Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend

Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets 
With threads knotted
Made...

Read More

Avalanche…

It only
Takes one candle’s flame
To drive out
The darkness -
In an avalanche of light
To crush the shadows

It only
Takes one snowflake’s song
To start an
Avalanche 
Of mercy flowing chanting
In sweet melody

It only
Takes one brave flower
To stand up
Against storms
An...

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She says she
has no life regrets
I envy
Miss Cricket
yet I wonder how she's lived
this long without one?

I wonder
was it worth it all?
To go through
life without
learning anything at all-
to end where you start?

She thinks so
maybe she forgets
unkind...

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You used to
lovingly coax my
keys with your
melodies
flirt and tease so playfully
high-note hitting glee

We enjoyed
taking tunes apart
upside down
inside out
syncopated Beethoven
bobbidy-boo beats

No small feat
with shimmy and shake
boogie, blues
jazz and all
the razzmatazz I could take
late nights wide awake

You...

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A Shadorma

Pot-bellied, 
wizened old oak sage;
resting in
silent woods.
Each swollen arthritic joint
tells a magic tale.

Within dark
knotholes of blackness,
lie secrets;
songs only
sung when the woods are silent;
echoes of the past.

You don’t think
that I hear your voice,
when I walk
through...

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Please don't wait
for me to feel it-
let's just start
from right here
awkward, numb and full of fear
it's now or never

Feeling dry
preserved, mummified
like something
long since dead
flickers of life in my head
haunting like a ghost

Trance-like walk
horror story style
down...

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My dad is a romantic. Mom passed away in April and ever since
he has extended the spectacular video, he made, of the love of his life.
The original was labeled “My June.” Now it is called,...

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~The Shadorma~
 (Shadorma)


Love this form
 It is very nice
 I find it
 Just charming
 Very easy to write with
 It is enchanting

 A Sestest
 Means done in six lines
 Spanish form
 You just count
 Three...

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Yea, passionate poets on the soup poetry 
Pen the poems and post it as a single entry

Some sponsors say to scribe poem a new
Some sponsors say to submit old or new.

Some are strict to say...

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~The  Shadorma~
(Shadorma)


Love this form
It is very nice
I find it
Just charming
Very easy to write with
It is enchanting

A Sestet
Means done in six lines
Spanish form
You just count
Three, five, three, three, seven, five
Syllables in all

There's no rhyme
To worry...

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