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Premium Member Deception Part 2 - Translation From Tagore
This is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted. 




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Categories: slanting, life, women,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Cascade Adventures - Part 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...

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Categories: slanting, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald...

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Categories: slanting, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, fun, mountains, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Lost In the Mists, Parts I-Iv
Lost In the Mists Parts I - IV

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Categories: slanting, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Writers
Let me tell 
You some 
More stories

Since so many
Of you are into
Stories

This one’s about writers
And a bit about
Social media

I’m no encyclopedia
But I’m a wannabe writer

And I studied 
Neuropsychology 
And by the way 

I can show...

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Categories: slanting, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On Hearing That Ronnie
for Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood 
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slanting, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form: Elegy
Gift To Myself
I spin, faster and faster…    
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my challenge, my highest vista to climb.
You lifted me to your...

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Categories: slanting, break up, emotions, identity, metaphor, relationship, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Place
molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
  belly-belching landform
  oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
  land-bridging, submerging
  any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
  continental drifting world
  climate...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slanting, future, history, ireland, places, sea, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Oh Please, Not To Fade So Fast Into the Afternoon
I.

Oh please, not to fade so fast into the afternoon
The one that is scattering in a goldenly swooning loneliness
The one that is shattering at a purply time of faintness
And the one whose wind is playing...

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© Hai Phan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slanting, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Did I Say What I Said You Said
Did I say What I said You said

You said looking a little forlorn
						a little redundant
	the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
   thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slanting, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological, spoken word, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Shoe Dreams
After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke to find the courage for this form again.

Shoe Dreams

Is there...

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Categories: slanting, art, body, christian, dance, fashion, mythology,
Form: Prose
The Bookcase
A room without a view, unkempt for many a long year
Dusty aging book slanting within a bookcase
Closet doors creaked, the wide boarded floors moaned as I walk
Adjacent to the bookcase is a stone fire place...

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Categories: slanting, education,
Form: Free verse
Earth Our Blessed Earth
O the sunset...the sunset...the carnelian sunsets
how I long to hold them in my hand...so when you are blue...so blue
so deep dark blue...you can come to me 
I will open my hand and you can wonder...wonder...wide...

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Categories: slanting, beauty, death, earth, love, prayer,
Form: Free verse
That Blessed Door
That Blessed Door

O the rain...the rain...the falling rain 
that fell and fell and fell again 
keeping you from my door...O my door...that blessed door! 

O the sunset...the sunset...the carnelian sunsets
how I long to hold them...

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Categories: slanting, dark, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two States One Union In Southern Hospitality
Somewhere in her white house 
There was a gray future spouse 
Looking for cheese 
Doing as he please 
Enchanting accent came from the mouth 
A drawing sound noting the south 
Filled with luring charm 
Made...

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Categories: slanting, america, love, marriage, true love, war, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on the biosphere, absorbed so many daily hours,
Like industrious days of...

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Categories: slanting, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature, rain, weather,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Marion's Return
As Marion trod the old familiar path
leading to the river of her childhood,
she viewed the willow tree across the river
and recalled with clarity
the event that changed her life 
half a century ago - that memory
which...

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Categories: slanting, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper

finally
 
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..

the crisp red leaf 
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and fro 
like a dancing crab
moving with the whims of the...

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Categories: slanting, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken, lost love, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seduce Me In Black and White - Erotic Verse
Seduce me in Black and White
You reach toward my face
and touch my lips
Tracing the slightly raised pink curve of them
gently - lightly - before
the urge to kiss me seizes the opportunity
Surrealistic sensations immortalize
as our lips...

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Categories: slanting, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Genghis Khan
Ride, ride, ride thou figure from the East
In thy curse hath many a mother wept
On thy brow the furrows of distant steppes
Yield unto a steely mask of doom
Destruction follows in thy path and yet
Methinks I...

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Categories: slanting, adventure, education, history, writing,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Greys, Part Iii
Greys, Part III

Temerity, the crux of the Human Way -
We dominate what we can,
Deriding the rest -
But the heart speaks in terms the tongue cannot frame,
Suggesting the worst is a part of our best
The ashen...

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Categories: slanting, angst, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Some Fallen-Leaves Regarding Longevity 1 - 3
1. 
observing the ardent eagerness of the wind 
it is clearly understood 
that nascent pollens are overflowing 
the niche of her heart  

in response to the signals of the river 
she keeps on ringing...

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Categories: slanting, fantasy
Form: Prose Poetry
Companionship of Time
Darkness broke against the
shimmering, bleeding-out sky 
as the sun, descending back 
to its ebony prison. 
We two sitting enjoying 
Nog and Chai, speaking 
pondering of life the 
meaning, the confusion 
of memories molding 
clay upon...

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Categories: slanting, lifejourney, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Battle Creek Hearts
To heal hearts, there are three ways. When waiting to be free so many days. Number one, tears, number two, laughter, number three pouring out fears, to someone who gets it. They just have to...

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Categories: slanting, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Down a Forest Path
"Has solitude ever led your steps down a forest path . . . "
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Categories: slanting, beauty, cheer up, solitude,
Form: Verse