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Premium Member To Our Farthest Memory: Dhruvasmriti
“ We  are
                    What we eat“
         ...

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Categories: sutra, faith, mythology,
Form: Concrete



Race-Ism
Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are only skin deep as a tone
why do we unto our...

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Categories: sutra, black african american, immigration, native american, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or rather without when the Ages seemed dark
and oriental spices called...

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Categories: sutra, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright costumes
 as bangles dangle from their slender wrists.

When I think...

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Categories: sutra, community, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep - Xl, Part One
Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL

Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you feel.
When you feel at...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sutra, abuse, addiction, baby, drug, mother, sensual, sleep,
Form: Epigram



Indirect
!
Hey there! How are you doing?
I just wanted to tell you that
I believe flirting is how love finds
a way to show that, even though it's as old as death,
it remains as new as a child
and...

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Categories: sutra, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 4
Steve: This sounds like the traditional Hindu caste system. I get it; all that Kama Sutra stuff.

John: You mean Kama Sutra IPA? It’s a local brew. Not bad.

Steve: Douche bag say wha?

John: Wha?

Steve: Please continue,...

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Categories: sutra, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Full Public Domain Translation of Avalokitesvara Hymn From Lotus Sutra Chp 25 Part 1
The Bodhisattva of Boundless Will then asked in verse:
“O World Honored One of wondrous countenance, 
I now seek once more the origins of the One Who Hears 
And Heeds the Sounds of the World!” 

And...

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Categories: sutra, angst, anxiety, art, universe, wisdom, women, world,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I'D Rather Write About
a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent of lemon 
oil on cherry wood; birth; the chasm between...

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Categories: sutra, poetry, writing, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Outside the City of Tranquil Light
The Kuiper belt with frozen realms
our eighth of planets overwhelms,
for if Neptune had not formed
that collection could have swarmed
into a body neophyte,
habitably considered quite
outside the city of tranquil light.

Suggestive of domains of ire
or hellish greed...

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Categories: sutra, allusion, humanity, life, light, stars, universe, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Lusting For Love
Lust has such a bad press

          one of the seven deadly sins

              ...

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Categories: sutra, love,
Form: Free verse
Spellbinder Part2
Her mocking salutation in salute.
Sudsing down your brains drawingboard in a victoriously ill repute.
Nature's pendulum holds you in it's dungeoness pattern of holding, then you go down it's chute. 
Hell's guillotine greased, oiled,
sparkling it's grinning...

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Categories: sutra, angel, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Bridging East and West: Ancient Chinese Poetry Translation
Note: This is a liberal English translation of an ancient poem found in the Classical Chinese Infinite Life Sutra (which dates back to the Cao Wei Dynasty of the three kingdoms era). I made some...

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Categories: sutra, art, blessing, faith, philosophy, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Fortune Teller


               "Go ahead, make yourself comfortable, 
        contemplate, whisper secrets to momma moon,
 ...

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Categories: sutra, art,
Form: Other
Kama Sutra
Kama sutra

The Sanskrit ancient text on making love,
the seductive motions to reach bliss from all above.
Rhymes and verses revealing hundredfold suggestions,
the divinity of making love and no more questions.
This poetical sentiment of romance is the...

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Categories: sutra, fantasy, sexy, spiritual,
Form: Ballade
Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra- New Liturgical and Poetic Translation
The following is my poetic/liturgical translation of the Heart Sutra:

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara,
Whilst in profound Prajna Paramita 
Saw illume the void of the five skandhas 
And prevailed over all pain and peril.

Sariputta, image and void differ...

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Categories: sutra, faith, introspection, religion, religious, truth, universe, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ablaze - Part Five
[Continued from Part Four]


The question might be asked, when it all had come to pass
and the children were delivered from the blaze en masse,
if the father’s behavior seems artfully contrived,
in enticing his offspring—who subsequently thrived—
with...

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Categories: sutra, allusion, destiny, fire, life, senses, wisdom, world,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pet Hate
It’s a bit like playing monopoly as we don’t start in prison
Little people of all kinds of colour begin at the same position
	
            ...

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Categories: sutra, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anna and the French Kiss
“If God omnipresent, He must be resident within
We must feel then now, bliss tremors on our skin”

__________________

Been there, done that
Fleeting pleasures fall flat
Mitigated pleasure of intimacy
Foiled by stuporous delinquency 
Where may be found zenith rapture
Raising...

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Categories: sutra, kiss, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Star Flower
In the twilight of suspended star thunder
where the waking jungle and broken Temple of tradition meet one another
she moves with a panthera prana, pranayama of precise paradise, air of spaceless pleasure,

A lavender Tigress of effortless...

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Categories: sutra, beauty, hindi, passion,
Form: Ode
Between Things and Colors3
The words on the next page of the letter
show us one possibility
The coincidence and inevitability of ease
Watching fireworks from an apartment balcony at night
Milk eats the sun rising over the city by the sea
You take...

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Categories: sutra, 3rd grade, 7th grade, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Ballad
In State
Barefoot on the paving slab chill, concrete
feet feel frostbite emanations in their callused souls;
rooftop mystique clamours silent slate triangles,
perched the stray cat observers, red-eyes smoking coals.
Down to the river's edge where swaying reeds
feed mongrel contemplations...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sutra, life, people, philosophy, places, social, , memorial,
Form: Verse
Some Temples
In the far Far East,
a few strange Hindu temples are intricately carved,
& are most pornographically exuberant,
everywhere there are wrathful-playful-sexual-
vengeful-gesturing-carousing-beckon  -ing -
ascending-descending-riding-weeping  - flying -
alluring - humping - bumping- twerking -
singing, or just dancing...

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Categories: sutra, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jezebelle the Personal Training Smutsercising Nurse (Part1)
they should have a stand up comic
who talks about what they would do
if they had a record deal
to make one cd
that everyone would benefit from
a cd soo well thought out in its perfection
it would be...

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Categories: sutra, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Sweven - Part Two
[Continued from Part One]



Was this town a phantom heaven,
an imaginary sweven?
Oh deluded humankind!
It was a figment of their mind.

We are here; it’s where we are—
no use wishing on a star…
Still, this sweven heaven’s real—
more than...

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Categories: sutra, allegory, allusion, deep, imagery, inspiration, journey, wisdom,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things