Long Unjustifiably Poems

K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary

The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...

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K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...

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I’d sit and say “son, it’s just you and me now kid
So if you enlist do you know what you will be warring for
HITLER tried to claim other’s land and sea
And that was the same...

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Villanelle: Whose terse lines lie entangled in the colophon
  
 for the author - male or female, prince or pauper, playboy or priest - of the
   THIRUKKURAL*, the reputed "bible" of the...

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This a message to all so-called Americans, who are loudly chanting, "Death to America!"
Should be forced to leave America!  Either they are brain washed domestic terrorists
 or brain washed foreign terrorists, they should all...

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God blesses us with angels
Not thinking of fluffy wings or mystical flying things
I'm thinking of those who help you beyond measure
The life changing, life saving acts each selfless soul brings

Could be that aunt who always...

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why 
why do I need to keep earning your trust
when you don't trust me?
why do i keep hiding myself from you 
when you can't accept me
all i want is to be comfortable in my own...

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12/5/20


Better choose quick
Just might lose if
You don't do it

Awesome or a nuisance
It either was or wasn't in the blueprints
Still a loner, or already shot by Cupid's
Arrow, underneath a sky that is moonlit

They spread lies, but...

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11/21/16



As far as I can see
Mindlessly
Been battling with sobriety

Extreme weather advisories
Over land or by the seas

Many multi-floored wineries
Producing product of the same or different varieties

Animals and humans living within or outside of societies
Where things may...

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Nigeria! Nigeria!! my beloved Nigeria
How you've suffered, how you've been rendered barren and useless
A country full of milk and honey
A country rich in people, culture and traditions
Gone were those days when you were the pride...

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Not intentionally and beyond realization
with every subtle breath
I commenced to murder my soul
with acts that are unlike commonality
like a wielding knife
churning in the mid-section
of the human soul
the murder was intimate
and most un-endearing
as unsettling as it...

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There was a time, when I felt totally undesirable
unjustifiably [I now know] and you being in your infancy
felt so.. un-understood, writhing in a man’s body, seemingly a child
with the heart of a warrior, a man,...

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The hole- so wide and lonely,
Is so unjustifiably small,
I imagine her decay slowly...
The crowd weeps at the door,
But I must not cry-
I am the undertaker.

The service- monotone,
The crowds grieving groans,
The shovel makes my hands ache,
But...

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Diabolique!

It's so tragic, in poetry!
There is no safe place to be.
Knives come at you with your
poetry, if political.

I do understand people 
now border on the hysterical.
Anyone on the right, in danger
of poetic execution.
Unjustifiably, diabolical!

But as in life, poetry is just
personal...

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