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Premium Member A Letter To Poetry
"A word like a river flows through the mind"                          ...

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Categories: taken for granted, poetry,
Form: Personification



Please Remember You Had Nothing To Say
Please Remember You Had Nothing To Say
                            ...

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Categories: taken for granted, betrayal, conflict, emotions, heartbreak, hurt, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taken for granted, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Headstones and Chattels
HEADSTONES AND CHATTELS 

‘Twas pure chance that I discovered
Just the other day,
A place passed 
Countless times,
Never had the thought of calling in,
Inner thoughts and misplaced fears
Oh there must have been countless other reasons
For one to...

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Categories: taken for granted, meaningful, society,
Form: Free verse
Tyranny Counts the Ballots
“Never forget 
everything Hitler did 
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious 
verboten spins askew 

“We can and we must 
write in the...

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Categories: taken for granted, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lady Liberty Speaks
It should be harder,
and perhaps it could,
to not be known
and recognized
and to not find icons of and for gratitude
throughout my everyday.

The forbidden fruit
of Trees for Life and against Death
living in peaceful forests of Good and...

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Categories: taken for granted, freedom, health, humor, integrity, love, peace, rights,
Form: Political Verse
You'Re Worth It
You're worth it

I want to start this by saying forgive yourself
You don't deserve the tears that falls from your face that makes way for your sadness to manipulate your whole personality
You don't deserve to be...

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Categories: taken for granted, absence, allusion, anxiety, blue, depression, emotions, uplifting,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member I Am a Tree
Things were not going anything close to my way that day.  So, I decided
to take a walk through a lovely park among the green grass and trees.
No sooner than I sat under an old...

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Categories: taken for granted, earth, giving, life, tree,
Form: Personification
No More
No more


In darkest gloom we wander still.  In a midnight hour we fall.
As the light begins to fade from our eyes, we are breathing still.
In the end, in our darkest hour, 
All we can...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taken for granted, age, change, dark, death, humanity, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Spring Chickens
It was springtime in my nursery, an industrious time of the year,
For spring is the time to be planting, so luxurious flora appears.

As the sole owner of a nursery, there was quite a bit to...

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Categories: taken for granted, adventure, fantasy, flower, nature, space, spring, work,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taken for granted, bullying, immigration, leadership, people, political, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Growing Up Too Soon
growing up too soon

	you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
						being passed by
	a hasbeen
				still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
         in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms

and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taken for granted, age, growing up, lonely, longing, psychological, women,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Birthday
Form: Free-Verse

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Categories: taken for granted, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Since Time Began
Since time began, when man and woman of Earth' came to be,
there has existed within the human soul,
the deepest inborn need to worship a higher power.
From the beginning, all human beings, scattered in different
parts of...

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Categories: taken for granted, faith, god, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Journey To the Cosmic Beyond
The Journey to the Cosmic Beyond

Life
God’s divine spark heralds our mortal presence on this Earth,
Whilst angels sing their mystic paeans to our cosmic rebirth.
The soul’s constant transformation transcends all mortality,
As it brings each of us...

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Categories: taken for granted, allegory, death, god, heaven, life, religious, symbolism,
Form: Canzone
Premium Member Portrait of a Public Servant
It is 3:00 a.m. on an icy cold winter morning.
A piercing alarm shatters the silence at the station, and
he is sped away on a flashing red vehicle, horns blaring,
to respond to the emergency.
At the scene...

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Categories: taken for granted, courage, dedication, tribute,
Form: Prose
Clairvoyant Calm
The smells of hospitals in 
December 
can almost taste the anesthesia 
faint remnants of uncertainty 
  
expecting outcomes so trivial 
from the outside in 
passing sleepless strangers in the corridors 
thinking to oneself, 
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Categories: taken for granted, death, faith, peopledeath, death,
Form: Free verse
Her
Everyday she thinks it’s her last.
Mistreated, misunderstood, misguided.
She thinks she deserves nothing.
But that isn't the case.

She is beautiful, kind, and sweet.
She hides its from others in fear of being hurt.
For she has been hurt by...

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Categories: taken for granted, dark, garden, girl, life, lonely, love,
Form: Free verse
Scorned
I breathe deeply,
Take a long blank,
Look into the night sky,
Ironically clear as day,
I Inhale.
The air is heated,
Smoke rising,
Sirens in the distance,
I don't care,
I blur it all out,
I feel it ,
Seeping,
Into my very soul,
I feel the...

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Categories: taken for granted, betrayal, crazy, depression,
Form: Free verse
I Never Got a Chance To Say It
Where are you Tink,When are you coming home?
K missed me more than I  knew,
But I was so caught up in work ,with my new life.
It was almost Christmas and I wanted to go home...

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Categories: taken for granted, cancer, christmas, death of a friend, december,
Form: I do not know?
The 'Talent' Gene
It is the most selfish gene
The one that make us distinguishable
Our uniqueness and special abilities
We owe it all to its infinite mutations

It is the most abundant and the most taken for granted,
Paradoxically, it can be...

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Categories: taken for granted, inspirational, planet,
Form: Prose
Prayer: Power Or Placebo-- Part I
Does prayer work? Or is it merely the placebo effect when things get better?Your mind convinces itself you are feeling better and you do. Your brain stimulates the immune system, helps fight off infection or...

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Categories: taken for granted, allusion, angst, appreciation, faith, god, mystery, prayer,
Form: Prose
A Lover's Letter - Part 4 of 4
I Send This Letter, Like A Message
Drumming Like Earth’s Hearts-Tribal
It Is A Lover’s Letter To You
Sent Like A Heaven-Sent Bible
Filled With Love –Just Like A Bible

My Lovely One –I Know Its Been Hard
During Our Separation
Its...

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Categories: taken for granted, absence, allegory, bible, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Narrative
Switch Places With Me
If you were the girl that I am,
And I were the boy that you are,
Would you like how I’ll look down to you?
How your words are too worthless to count to me?
Would my inside look...

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Categories: taken for granted, song-lyricworld, work, hate, time, work, integrity,
Form: Lyric
A Little Girl
I was once a little girl

One who looked at the world

As a place filled with hopes and dreams

But this wasn't for long, as life has that way of throwing those screams

Right when you weren't asking...

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Categories: taken for granted, change, child,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things