Christ Alone
...HIM ALONE
Mathe Karen
If one never speaks, rather words left unsaid
If my time should run out to say more, less is all
By this time won’t be this time if I don’t do it all
Knowing takes away...
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Categories:
mathe, adventure, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Ballad
Letter To a Good Friend
...A LETTER TO A GOOD FRIEND
Mathe Karen
If these words are never said, better no man has ever lived to say them at all
But that which are words which can be said now and later not forgotten
If thes...
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Categories:
mathe, adventure, angel, beautiful, best
Form: Ballad
All Is Lost
...What happened…..?
All gone-by in a moment and where did all those such and promises go
Did all your faith just vanished to where there’s not hope to even try
I guess it’s not what you feel, but wh...
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Categories:
mathe, adventure, analogy, angel, animal,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Kept To Myself
...THE WORDS LEFT UNSAID
I can’t say what I saw
The difference would be me saying and you not believing.
The point is not do you understand but I’m afraid you might not believe me
The truth is that ...
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Categories:
mathe, angel, august, beauty, best
Form: Free verse
Not Enough To Love
...Not enough to love
Held too close to even see what you did not mean
But a memory of a shadow erased.
What I saw looking at you, was nothing, but a temptation
I needed deliverance from and still b...
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Categories:
mathe, autumn, beauty, bible, brother,
Form: Ballad
Letting Go
...Learning to let go
I learned patience too early
Forgot I’m not taken granted I thought
I held my breath, so not to breath for life
I held so close to broken pieces, forged together.
You never no...
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Categories:
mathe, africa, beautiful, beauty, courage,
Form: Alexandrine
Moving Forward
...Digging out the past
One man decides to bury the past hoping to save the future But never knew that some had already
sought to dug it out, Trying to give a different view, for he hoped to fit in...
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Categories:
mathe, africa, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Ballad
Generational Poets
...All I ever wanted
You make me doubt the love in our hearts
Even afraid to confirm
I talking just take away the passion out of you
You listening ...
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Categories:
mathe, adventure, africa, brother, friend,
Form: Ballad
To What Profound Penance Owe You This Boon, O Yashotha
...To what profound penance owe you this boon, O! Yashotha! Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subbha Iyer’s enna thavam seithanai – yashOthA by T. Wignesan
To what profound penance owe you this bo...
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Categories:
mathe, endurance, god, jealousy, religious,
Form: Dramatic Monologue