North Star
...I've sought her all my life
Though I haven't known her long
The track 'To Whom It May Concern'
Explains it pretty close in song
There was somebody out there
My inner compass knew
To point in ...
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Categories:
magnetic north, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
The Breath of God
...Would you could
Within your moving prose, suppose
Your line be cast to moor
And words be cast to more
And soul be cast to those
Who truly know
Where you alone
Might have thought to go.
W...
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Categories:
magnetic north, bangla, community, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reflection On Afterlife
...grateful for my gifts along the way
managed to reach a stage
where I can look back on life
letting out a sigh of relief
mostly my sins were of omission
now I strive to look ahead
while I focu...
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Categories:
magnetic north, faith, hope, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Magnetic North
...MAGNETIC NORTH
A house misses you.
You don’t live there now.
It’s delighted to see you.
It pulls you to it’s curb.
A house misses you.
You happen by.
That dark window,
knows your outside....
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Categories:
magnetic north, heart, home, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Flog Not a Horizontal Man
...A horizontal man beaten by life vicissitudes
Don’t flog
On him dump not platitudes
To clog his misfortune on the blog
Where his reputation you whip
Out of shape, out of contention
To snip and...
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Categories:
magnetic north, poems,
Form: Free verse
With One Stone and the Fire Within
...Long ago, was a burning globe
A heart like unto the sun's soul
Now all dressed up, clothed in a robe
Plethora, millions of years old
Blossoming art from dawn to dawn
A wheel from hostile to g...
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Categories:
magnetic north, earth, fire, humanity, moon,
Form: I do not know?
The Origin Deep
...Seraphic faces, shapes slicked in rubber,
With Iron Lungs strapped to their back,
Terra Firma’s tether, now growing slack,
Frog footed adventurers adrift in space,
As they slip from this world’s iron...
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Categories:
magnetic north, adventure, creation, deep, earth,
Form: Classicism
Michael
...He always said
you’ve got to pump your nerve up
if you’re going to live
any place worth living.
And his eyes
would glint off across Dark Lake
like late September sunlight.
He’d give you t...
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Categories:
magnetic north, faith, life, people,
Form: Free verse