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Premium Member Preface
Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....

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Categories: taboos, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan


Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taboos, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dead Man Tales
Dead Man Tales
shards of glass pearl the emperor's rise,
his arms embracing upon our sins and lies, 

do not deceive yourself , my friend.
in the twilight of our beings our corruption merges and blends.

there is no...

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Categories: taboos, conflict, corruption, emotions, freedom, sad, sin,
Form: Classicism
Land Is a Loom
Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself  spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...

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Categories: taboos, adventure, environment, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,

his bane is firm, the canker...

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Categories: taboos, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Soulful Cry of Anguish Against Fate
A Soulful Cry of Anguish against Fate

(“The Tale of the Lonely Ghost”, a film (2013) by ANUP SINGH - who collaborated on the screenplay as well, an Indian, a Sikh born in Dar-es-Salaam but settled...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taboos, death, first love, grief, parents, religion, suicide,
Form: Elegy
The Deadly Triad of History
The Deadly Triad of History

The Renaissance enlightened minds
sprouted revolutions of evolutionary kinds
favouring towards nation state
and absurd race of imperialism began
envious of one-another,
to conquer the world with guns and glory
planted the seeds of violence for future...

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Categories: taboos, pride, society, time, violence, war, world war
Form: Free verse
Jamaican Elegy For An Intellectual (Rex. R. Nettleford) Part 1
One time a barefooted pickney dancing on the street
I beat puhn pan an' wanda how life could be sweet
For my yai quadrilled to distant cling-cling roost and feel
A longing to change their parliament in my...

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Categories: taboos, death, dedication, historyme, longing, me, river,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Lost Love Deliria - Part 2
 Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...

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Categories: taboos, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
A Circus Diabolique
As the Pied piper, when the first circus came to town                        ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taboos, abuse, allegory, betrayal, child abuse, death, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Imp-Ulse Attraction
The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers:    Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the TV

Have no bewitching faith in your bad dreams,
especially the one...

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Categories: taboos, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
We Owe It To Our Doctors
We owe it to our doctors 
 


We owe it to our doctors… 
The ones who took it to be part of Sun Pharma’s greater mission;
 
To prevent disease rather cure
Cure and control if that happens at all; 
Defying...

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Categories: taboos, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Ball and Chain
well, there you go, sweetheart; 
i have done it at last - 
the unthinkable, the reckless, the bold 
and possibly suicidal thing...
i have gritted my teeth and hurled myself out into the 
void, 
into all...

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Categories: taboos, devotion, love, weddingheart, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
This Whole Sex Thing
FORGIVE ME THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN THROUGH THIS WHOLE SEX THING,
DON'T KNOW OF THESE ORGIES OR  THE BACUS PARTIES,
DON'T KNOW OF SOME OTHER WOMAN'S CURVES,
OF SOME OTHER SCENT, EITHER STRONG OR WEAK,
DON'T KNOW OF...

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Categories: taboos, angst, inspirational, life, love, passion, philosophy, me,
Form: Free verse
Piercing My Heart
Piercing my heart:

Her nose-pin twinkles at me,
Her lip-ring smiles at me,
Her dark eyes make me lust,
Leaving everything like rust.
Her cheek-piercings make fake dimples,
Fake eyelashes arise ripples,
Inside my heart.
She is a prostitute from Havana,
I first met...

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Categories: taboos, beautiful, beauty, body, woman,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Evil One Again
An evil one..
Not to go with soft referred as despotic rules are just.
Nothing quite defected if nothing softly despotic. They are nasty nice.
Some sublime ways are better empathy hearts. List to mores and law as...

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Categories: taboos, angst, evil, life, may,
Form: ABC
Kigali, In I Am
Kigali! You’re a dream differed
          An indefinite dream for unkeyed
          You break too many hearts
  ...

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Categories: taboos, africa, analogy, character, city, community, confusion, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Just Plain Bob
inescapably booby trapped in the region of self
anticipating illumination with a dopey grin
and a grimy determination masked by ungodly brio 
gimme your best shot you goose stepping goons
you Ragnarok brothers of Odin and his Twinkie...

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Categories: taboos, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Too Young To Die
As the wind continue to sway,
We hurt from the inside but the outside can't lay.
Where there is a will there is a way,
But writing a will is a perspective for it seems as the day
Where...

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Categories: taboos, age,
Form: I do not know?
Reading Out Loud
Reading Out Loud...

Plus applying index finger as pointer guide
(take that Missus Wells),
who best not take objection, hence let snide
blackboard barbed comment dultifully slide
chalked up and emanating

from gentleman with pride
and prejudice toward third grade teacher,
whose archaic...

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Categories: taboos, 12th grade, 3rd grade, celebration, confidence, dedication,
Form: Free verse
A Griot's Global Prophecy
What do think they are doing
Calling young and unsuspected children
Eager to please
And break glass ceilings
To shake the trees of old taboos
From the lap of colleges
The subterfuge of lives sparkles
In the eyes deprived
Of commercial baubles, and...

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Categories: taboos, education, political, social
Form: Free verse
The Freedom To Enjoy
Constantly criticized
The world is misinformed...
Let me tell you all about
what must be known.

A young boy, I was fearful
Confused by what I was,
by communication
Yet gifted with a talent
To observe
To see
To interpret...
Though I never thought much of...

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Categories: taboos, education, happiness, health, hope, inspirational, passion, peace,
Form: I do not know?
I Am the Lioness (A True Leo)
procrastinating is my hobby, 
ask 
someone if you don't believe me , 
baby i lay around  
as i please 
& 
work at my own leisure, 
incredibly you fail 
to understand i am me 

and...

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Categories: taboos, me, may, me,
Form: I do not know?
Lugubrious Losses, Choices, Voices and Tosses
Remonstrations, protestations, recriminations
In the wake of a calamity that strikes below the belt
In communities decimated and disabled by insinuations
Brought to a head when fickle feelings melt

As tempers in embers flare
In scenarios of utter disbelief prompted...

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Categories: taboos, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Et Tu, Mama
What makes you human without your limbs,  
Human without your nose and toes – 
What makes you human without your ears  
Makes the unborn me human without your form. 
Yes, it’s my essence,...

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Categories: taboos, abortion, baby, death, health, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs