looking back five years ago
Two formidable contenders are battling for the crown, each making grand promises. Where do we go wrong? What wisdom does our Bible impart about speaking in tongues? It's a reality that for one to win, another must lose; that’s the essence of this game change. We know that nothing will ever be the same again.
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Categories:
looking back, abuse, allusion, career, fate,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Looking Back At Trump's Capital Assault Twice
Looking Back At Trump's Capital Assault Twice
From that storm-driven dark day.~
I saw rioters chanting U-S-A, U-S-A.~
And raging, raging, having their stay.~
Like wound-up robots with words to say.~
The mob-like lapped the Capital and its prey.~
Then raced through the steps of Trump's relay.~
For there they were under his spell and play.~
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Categories:
looking back, america, introspection, leadership, presidents
Form: Monorhyme
Looking Back
I don't know any happy
super rich people -- a
friend of wealth once
told me: "See all this,
a huge property and
home, dripping gold
gilt, "I have nothing...."
I thought, myself spared
leaving, as I gave my vehicle
the usual primer finessing of
the gas pedal, before it would
prayerfully start --
Of course, having spent much
of my life with those suffering, I
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Categories:
looking back, humanity, journey, leadership, people,
Form: Free verse
No Looking Back
P r o c r a s t i n a t i o n
Seems doggedly determined
To anchor me to today;
Tells me to set sail tomorrow,
But I'm already on the
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Categories:
looking back, allegory, motivation, symbolism,
Form: Alliteration
Categories:
looking back, change, introspection, self,
Form: Than-Bauk
Looking Back, I’m Ashamed
Looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was,
A mirror shows the choices I regret.
In shadows of the past, I see my flaws,
Yet wisdom’s light has guided me, I bet.
I wandered lost, each step a trial’s cost,
With every wrong turn, pain would carve its mark.
Yet from the struggle, lessons were embossed,
And in each failure, hope would
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Categories:
looking back, anger, conflict, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
Again and again, looking back to thee, once more
Home
Songs
Love and nature
92
Period of composition (Bangla): Nineteenth Vadra, 1346
Period of composition (After Christ) September 5, 1939
Place of composition: Shantiniketan
Again and again, looking back to thee, once more,
Days and nights these foamy churns awakened, in parables, mind approached out there, rested on armrest
The verses and the divine bell, awakened on the festive zeal, with the
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Categories:
looking back, bird,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back
Dying
in perspective
The cart
within the horse
The end a
retrospective
When running
— your last course
(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)
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Categories:
looking back, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Looking back
Being stuck in the past
Life passes so fast
Days go by
Seems to fly
Sometimes I wonder where the days all went
Was it time well spent
When I am looking back
The memories seem to attack
When did this day become night
Will time make things right
Staying in the fight
Living one day at a time
Looking for the right rhyme
With myself I
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Categories:
looking back, allusion, august,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Back
The destiny of my parents
was to be ignored by a vaguely dismantled child.
The youth grew, his mind so dispersed,
that he hardly saw them anymore.
How can you tell,
when your filial emotions
are all stuck in a knuckled first?
Years passed, parents passed,
time passed and the child,
became an old man.
Only then did he see again,
a mother doing her best,
a
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Categories:
looking back, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back
Looking back
I wonder where that young boy
would like to have been
so many years down the road
if he could see then
where he would be now
would he still embark on that journey
the one that took him here
would he perhaps delay his departure
give it more thought
make different choices
go down different paths
it is the most common
and perhaps
the most
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Categories:
looking back, journey,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back Evaluating Judging My Life This Far
Looking back
Honestly and wholeheartedly
Having to assess evaluate
My life up until this very moment and point
In time I have lived this far
I would have to judge myself
In two completely different parts
The old me today and and when I was young
Because I can quite honestly say
Although they are still both me
The younger version of me has changed
Through
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Categories:
looking back, age,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back
I am in awe of her beauty,
a laugh that lights a room,
a presence that can't be ignored.
I am caught and can't escape.
She is out of my reach, a space between us.
I want to talk and get close
but no, there is no chance.
I can't get near
She is more than me, I am nothing to her.
I can't
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Categories:
looking back, love, love hurts, sad
Form: Free verse
Looking Back In Anger
If we want to see less people looking back in anger,
We need to give them more to look forward to,
Like old age,
Like 3 square meals a day,
Like being listened to,
Like less waiting time for that operation,
Like a place to shower,
Like actual mail in their letter box,
Like an end to the beatings,
Like job security,
Like being valued
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Categories:
looking back, adventure, appreciation, baby, beach,
Form: List
Looking Back Through a Front Windscreen
Inevitably places have changed,
where I was born looks like an alien city to me,
it's now a tourist trap for indigenous aliens.
The world was younger back then.
people were more dangerous yet much kinder.
We once carried books around,
we loaded cars and pushbikes
with travel books and the poetry of adventurers.
We were old enough to be piratical.
Of course the
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Categories:
looking back, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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