American cheese, if you please
Not Taiwanese or Japanese
Nothing Maltese or Vietnamese
American cheese, if you please
You say I must try Swiss Cheese
Lebanese and Nepalese
At Chanukah, ‘Monterey of Maccabees’
Farvoss?* American cheese, if you please *'What for?' (Yiddish)
But surely you’ll take a bite of Siamese
Portuguese, Pekinese or Paraguese
And how can you neglect Senegalese and Congolese
Not now. If you please, American cheese
Is our diner a narrow-minded provincial
Nisht!** ~ she’s old, a Jewish immigrant NYC election official **No! Not! (Yiddish)
Woke, and proud
Now the KKK , ok that's uncool
killing nature? that's so unschooled
Charlie Brown my Hero
he stood for humanity, not D Cheney
have you ever met a cat loving the KKK
between me and you
Bugs bunny would say no way
more woke than any coyote
coyotes
loving genocide, starvation and
a plenitude of banned books
not woke just a narrow minded joke
be woke
not a racist fifty year old bloke
The grand plan is to homogenize nations
Strip them of their unique faces.
Replace them with a plastic mask.
Force-feed them into a blender.
Dismantle the backbone- the middle class.
Make the masses interdependent.
Feed them their own blood.
Their bones into crumbs.
Take away their means to defend.
Put shackles on God -unleash Satan.
Godless governments putting lipstick on a pig.
They call that supreme salesmanship.
Telling us the hag is a princess.
Oil and water will never mix.
Neither does love and greed.
Darkness and light will meet
on the battle plain horizon...
This deep musk is but a brief illusion.
God will never die.
The narrow-minded lit the fuse.
We, the people on the eve of
Reigniting liberty and life.
You’re the tame auspiciously lurking in the still of my nightmares, frivolously evicting the static that haunts my memories, illuminating this frantic mind if even for a second.
Crippling the narrow minded ways in which I’ve become entrapped, a one way road futile in substance and willingness to succeed
The savior of superficiality aligning the monstrosity of a broken roar, promising problems putter to the likening of a minuscule oblivion
Whatever You Feed
It Grows
Do you feed the negative?
Don’t become pessimistic.
Narrow minded.
One sided.
You can’t grow from always complaining.
This is not up-lifting.
Don’t hold onto the temptation.
Leave the old ways behind.
Don’t push people away.
Hard road, age will turn gray.
To grow is to change.
I’ve always been impatient.
Feed the positive.
Not the negative.
A brighter day.
Up-grade.
Carry the lamp in the dark.
Be wise. Complain no more.
Turn off the noise.
Become your own man.
Your own way.
Strive to grow.
Wisdom will show.
Philippians 2:14
Recognize years of selfishness
Confessioning all sins
Surrending all to him
Praying for his forgiveness
Praying for his grace
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Narrow minded
Turning away from his guidance
Focusing on my own wants , desires
Too Blind to see
Listened but too deaf to truly hear his message
As I walked a different chosen path
Mentally checked out
Lost faith, ambition
Hurt all angels he the lord
Blessed upon me with
Struggling with heaviness of the weight
Afraid of the unseen
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Submitting
As the daybreak's
blessings crash on to me
washing away
Stepping out refined, retuned, restored n refreshed
REBORN
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind
is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind
They construct reinforced dams that hold them back
from accepting the candid truth, white is not black
Like the slow-moving current of a trickling stream
their thoughts are clogged and clot like curdled cream
What chance do the recalcitrant ones have to accept
reality if they allow no vision of being circumspect
of taking fault and blame for having a closed mind?
These are the ignorant, the foolish ones aptly defined
as those destined to stagnate until they decompose
It's the subsequent end to the stubborn who oppose
a new premise or concept with which they don't agree
They rot inside prisons of conceit, a human tragedy
If biscuit dipped in curry’s what he likes,
What use needless flurry on what he likes?
O be not so narrow-minded a man,
At least east-west marry in what he likes.
Let them say, ne’er the twain shall meet,
If they do, why worry in what he likes.
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Ghazal (tongue-in-cheek) |01.11.2024|humour, east-west
Poet’s note: Dipping a biscuit in tea seems widely accepted a practice. In west a scientific study (yes, scientific) has been done on how long a biscuit should ideally be dipped in tea. Around four seconds, it says. A little less and the biscuit is not optimally soft. A little more, and it would be too soggy, and a portion might even fall in tea. But here is this guy who dips his biscuit in daal (Indian curry)! This short Ghazal of three couplets has its own take on it.
Poet’s note: based on a Gujarati Muktak by Naaz Mangroli as under:
Daal nee saathe ae biscuit khaye chhe,
Aemaan taaraa baapnu shun jaaye chhe?
Sankuchit drishhtinu taaree shun karu?
Poorva-pashchim aektaa to thaaye chhe!
“Dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Genesis 3:19 King James Bible
In time, I will return to dust,
in this circle of life- of birth, life and death;
so, living each moment is a must,
and embracing this journey 'til that very last breath.
I am not unpreditable, or fickle,
not narrow minded or with thoughts confined;
a friend who will give her last nickel,
looking at my journey with open eyes and not blind.
Often, I have had a feral drive,
a ferocious thrust, and push to just succeed;
with such a hungry lust to strive,
and been left stabbed in the heart to weep, to bleed.
In the end I am left with soul,
with a spirit faithful, caring and always kind;
though, I did not reach each goal,
and to whatever my afterlife fate I am totally resigned.
This one is mine, that one is thine,
Be a narrow-minded man’s sign.
To him whose heart is huge as sea,
All world is but one family.
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Translation |13.09.2024| world, family
Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhaashhitam. This one is taken from my selection of translations. The poet observes that those that are narrow minded, indulge in thinking like: this is mine and that is thine. To large-hearted however, ‘world is one family’. The transliteration of the Sanskrit verse follows:
Ayam nija parah vetti, gananaa laghu chetasaam |
Udaara charitaanaam tu, vasudhaa eva kutumbakam || Hitopadesha||
Whatever you do
Narrow minded and jealous
Never be happy.
Master of Hate (conferred for general practice)
Master of Bigotic Hate (conferred for narrow-minded reasons like religious or political belief)
Master of Occupational Hate (conferred for haters for money or other favors in return or as a job or profession)
Master of Ignorant Hate (conferred for haters with reasons they cannot understand like they don't even know the person)
Master of Innocent Hate (conferred for children used to hate)
Master of Unjust Hate (conferred on haters for no reason or shallow reason)
Master of Divinistic Hate (conferred for haters who went to Bible School)
Doctor of Divinistic Hate (conferred for haters who went to bible school and also preaches the bible)
Bachelor of Hate (major in politics)
Bachelor of Hate (major in religion)
Bachelor of Hate (major in gossip)
Just for fun
Coward
Talk about people behind their backs
Instead of in front of their faces
Spend all your time in a lonely place
Searching for hiding places
Too scared to stand up for yourself
Too proud to depend on others
Too bold to stand beside other people
Too independent to even claim your own brothers
Smile in their face, but laugh behind their backs
Is the way you go on living
Mad if people don’t forgive you with the quickness
Knowing you yourself isn't the least bit forgiving
Too narrow-minded to consider other people's feelings
Too stubborn to admit when you take things too far
Too stupid to think you’re God’s gift to the world
When a coward is what you really are
and I hunger for you, like a moth
longing for one last flicker of flame
nestled deep inside my heart
the memory of my childhood worship sits deep
as an innocent deer panting by the riverside
and I need you now, ... like I need the air I breathe
for I feel lame as a joke I can't retell,
perhaps I am the joke itself;
inside this narrow minded insulated world of reality,
you don't exist anymore for me
at least not in the way you did when I was young
for I have given you so many different gowns and shapes
that I am no longer able to envision you
the way I did before, what do you look like now?
I ask while sitting quietly, beneath a
Bodhi tree.
The Real Truth
With Texas Idioms
Miracle Man
October 22, 2023
Saturday nights in Haskell was always a battle,
some thought Ruff might be “all hat and no Cattle”.
He oft searched for Jack to settle some long ago spat,
Ruff was bigger “than a boarding house cat”.
Tom you ask, once more, how big was the other?
“so big he looked like he ate his brother”.
But an altercation with Jack some saw as a toss up,
for Jack was said to be “Faster than small town gossip”.
Everyone feared Jack and with him built rapport,
though he was not “the sharpest knife in the drawer”.
They both started drinking upon leaving the house,
and soon, both appeared “drunk as a meadow mouse”.
At times I’ve seen both acting just like some smurf,
thoroughly “confused as a goat on AstroTurf”.
The fights they had got them no gold buckles,
but sometimes “it would just cloud up and rain knuckles”.
Back then I was plain stupid without a disguise,
“and so narrow minded I could look through
a keyhole with both eyes”.
God is good!
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