Under the dark sky of 2025, where the Genetic Basin pulses
...Under the dark sky of 2025, where the Genetic Basin pulses
like an overloaded server beneath the shadows of a Sulimi,
my thoughts flow like a faulty algorithm through 6G networks,
whistling beneat...
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Categories:
marketplaces, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our time
...Speak!
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you're still standing...
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Categories:
marketplaces, dark, father, fear, sea,
Form: Rhyme
The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
...The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
In the sprawling labyrinth of concrete towers and spectral glass,
where skyscrapers, like ancient obelisks, pierce the celestial veil with unyielding ambition,
se...
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Categories:
marketplaces, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Dovetail
...The angels are overloaded.
And I'm crying aloud.
In marketplaces.
In new frontiers.
Sobbing incongruously
From station to station.
Losing my past
And letting the present
Run off without me.
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Categories:
marketplaces, life,
Form: Free verse
As We Traverse the Landscapes
...Like travellers,
We cross this arid land
Aiming at the city of rest.
As we traverse the landscapes
We may, of a truth, sully our feet
With besetting dust of sin
But we must from time to t...
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Categories:
marketplaces, christian, faith, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Who I Have Been
...I have taught, written, and spoken in the giant marketplace of Km.
I would speak and write in Egypt's marketplaces and all around its rim.
One day through the crowd and dotted stands, I peered ...
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Categories:
marketplaces, age, appreciation, confidence, food,
Form: Rhyme
Who Have I Been
...I have taught, written, and spoken in the giant marketplace of Khem.
I would speak and write in Egypt's marketplaces and all around its rim.
One day through the crowd and dotted stands, I peere...
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Categories:
marketplaces, appreciation, leadership, places, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Jesus Teaching: Acting With Pretense Mk
...Beware of the scribes
Who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces
Seats of honor in synagogues
places of honor at banquets
They devour the houses of widows and
A...
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Categories:
marketplaces, christian, god, jesus, people,
Form: Free verse
No True Repeats In Life
...One calm evening
on a leisure drive with my wife
along the Inphal-Dimapur
National Highway
I remembered
my overnight road journeys
to Guwahati for office work,
sometimes together with ...
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Categories:
marketplaces, repetition,
Form: Free verse
Hunger's Face
...Quiet descends on the town
The horizon deepest blue
Tufts and wisps of clouds long departed
Shadowy forms in their wake
A gaunt figure threads his way
through deserted marketplaces
All ...
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Categories:
marketplaces, eve, loneliness, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Probability Analysis
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O Magog,
from the sterile land of Gog,
thou rejoicest over how thy biological idol father
hast devilishly embraced thee
Spiritual mathematics
offer free radical theorems
of probab...
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Categories:
marketplaces, judgement, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Speaking With Donald John
...I was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
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Categories:
marketplaces, earth, education, faith, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Sounds of Korea-W
...The Sounds of Korea
I hear the familiar sounds of Korea,
Of the crowing of roosters in the morning,
Of the fields, streams and marketplaces.
The tunes of shamanistic music band
The swirling ...
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Categories:
marketplaces,
Form: Verse
Paparazzi
...People who are on a mission
Trying to build their reputation
By shooting photos of stars on vacation,
Or maybe at some exhibition.
On possessing these famous faces
They quickly run to several m...
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Categories:
marketplaces, adventure,
Form: I do not know?
The Sounds of Korea-W
...I hear the familiar sounds of Korea,
Of the crowing of roosters in the morning,
Of the fields, streams and marketplaces.
The tunes of shamanistic music band
The swirling of fire-lit cans of Jwibu...
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Categories:
marketplaces, life, people, social,
Form: Pastoral
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