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Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan

Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...

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Categories: stateless, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form: Sonnet

If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI

The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… "...

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Categories: stateless, bullying, immigration, leadership, people, political, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Unquotable Quotes: Olympic Antics - Xxxiii

Unquotable quotes: Olympic Antics – XXXIII

Why do Judo-kas bother to wear anything at all since all they do is to try their very best to undress one another before hugging themselves on the mat?
Wrestlers at...

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Categories: stateless, character, dedication, humorous, international, sports, strength, word
Form: Epigram

Once I Was a Prince - Part Three

Part Three

  ...swishing away with your sunshrivelled burgundy knotty arms with broad disdainful harvesting sweeps the cobras come out to water in the sweltering heat by the thatched fly-buzzed hole

your low under-the-breath warning tones...

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Categories: stateless, family, me, water, may, me, time, water,
Form: Free verse

A Reluctant Sayonara

« She must suffer to her last breath. (…) They’ll all soon be as Dead as 0-Ren Ishii. »
« That woman deserves her Revenge. And we deserve to die. »
From « Kill Bill Vol. 1...

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Categories: stateless, death, november, paris,
Form: Elegy

Benevolence Issues Forth Courtesy Mine Eldest Sibling

Thee nonpareil Amelie Beth Harris-McGeehan
blessed honest to dog goodness her person doth bring
never could her brother wish upon NON GMO
(archaeopteryx, buffalo, chicken...) wing,
and genuine prayer anybody more a maze zing.

Many countless years before
our dear mother...

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Categories: stateless, angel, brother, care, growing up, hero, i
Form: Rhyme

If Ever I Had a Country : Lvi and Lvii

IF ever I had a country : LVI - LVII

			LVI

IF ever I had a Stateless country
And if ever I were a Stateless Person citizen patriot ready to lay my life down for the statelessness of...

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Categories: stateless, community, international, leadership, philosophy, political, society,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

If Ever I Had a Country : Xxi and Xxii

IF ever I had a country : XXI - XXII

" I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from...

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Categories: stateless, anger, anti bullying, care, power, rights, sleep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Stateless

                         Stateless

			…thatched houses catch fire
sparrow tires from romping in the coned-flower...

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Categories: stateless, allegory, destiny, discrimination, grief, missing, rights, travel,
Form: Free verse

Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story

Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables...

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Categories: stateless, age, humor, imagery, poetry, writing,
Form: Pantoum

Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix

Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between...

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Categories: stateless, age, humor, love, sensual, writing,
Form: Pantoum

Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Iv-Vi

Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12...

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Categories: stateless, age, humor, satire, sensual, writing,
Form: Pantoum

Refugee's Not Aliens

Refugees
Not aliens, once citizens
reduced to Stateless beings
Not because of own making
On run as find life simmering
due to anarchy set afire
by mindless Power bearers
Womb of their myopic terror
sans umbilical cord giving birth
to orphan refugees on Mother...

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Categories: stateless, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Refugee's Not Aliens

Refugees
Not aliens, once citizens
reduced to Stateless beings
Not because of own making
On run as find life simmering
due to anarchy set afire
by mindless Power bearers
Womb of their myopic terror
sans umbilical cord giving birth
to orphan refugees on Mother...

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Categories: stateless, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse

Fly's Flew

Flies’ flew

Adamant fly flew giving me ticklish in nose tip
Hands were busy to drive them far hitting kick
Not only one or two time continuously turning back
As leaders of my town sit back for convention as...

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Categories: stateless, culture, dark, death, flying, girl, woman, youth,
Form: Free verse

Education

Education is life.
I want it but I can't.
It is my need.
Alternative learning I did.
I am called immigrant.
Oftentimes stateless.
I am trapped of nation-state.
When it was borderless.
Now in a boundary.
In history only we exist.
I am never free.
Never...

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Categories: stateless, addiction, analogy, angst, change, children, conflict, encouraging,
Form: Ballad

The Whites

The Whites 

 It is not easy to be white these days, the whites
get the blame for the demise of the Red- Indians,
by students who do not understand history.
When a mass of poor white came...

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Categories: stateless, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Blank verse

Broken Arrow

Some sense it
a tipping point being tilted.

You step back
into your mind's eye,
survey the present climate
sensing a dire change,
a new darker wind
stirs your thoughts.

Something went wrong,
something got too damaged.
In the stateless moment
where we were once unified
by...

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Categories: stateless, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Freedom and Independence!

Freedom!
Why to Sulu you cannot grant?
Independence!
To Sulu you don’t mind!

Freedom!
Sulus cried for once!
Independence! 
Sulus need to embrace then…

Freedom!
Until this shall not achieve
Still the march towards it!
Independence!
Sulus need this to happen
United Nations please do what is...

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Categories: stateless, history
Form: Narrative

The Gloom of October

Autumnal Gloom

                      Sorrowful October, rain hangs in the air to mean to fall
a murky...

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Categories: stateless, abuse, age, allegory, angst,
Form: Blank verse