poem number 10 from saltmilk
… do you love me, woman
it is cloudy in this street
as that sandalwood perfume
stretching between our arms
here everything of it is gone
with the floods and good
you are the only tree left behind
and love is the
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Categories:
nature society, anger, angst, anxiety, character,
Form: Free verse
INDIA
I come from a place with Mahogany trees,
With bowers of fragrant flowers surrounded by bees,
I come from a land where within it- culture and language differ,
Still humanity and brotherhood is what we prefer.
I come from a place where the poor are fed,
A place where throughout the host's house the guests are led,
A place where love
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Categories:
nature society, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The place I find Solace
I moved to the fast-moving world.
I rely on nothing but amazing technology.
Everything is at my doorstep, just no less than a wonder world.
None to bother, no one to care about.
Just one click makes every single service possible.
No time to spare in any wandering thoughts,
As so much around to get amused and explore every sort.
Technology
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Categories:
nature society, desire, feelings, happiness, home,
Form: Free verse
Internal Cold War
I'm torn across axis yet to exist,
Or had once been, since been replaced,
By a sense of self and lack thereof,
When we, by they encased.
Cleavage adorned in modest terms,
Abreast as if more than one.
Still less than two, duplicitous you,
Less I divide by hegemon.
Senses shook, a daily wage,
Of war: be both me and we?
An ancient oath
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Categories:
nature society, abuse, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
The world is suchlike a pomegranate
The world is somehow a pomegranate
Every individual of us in it is the seeds
Having stayed similar to juicy tastes
Holding together long yawning for grace
Dreaming to germinate in the spring breeze
And to grow up and stand tall in the soil
Blooming virtually and quietly in the Sun-rays
And to appeal the amethyst
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Categories:
nature society, analogy, extended metaphor, feelings,
Form: Verse
Vision of Dreams
even without the warmth of the wise
there is radiating the unseen
a desire where only truth lies
in the place of the in-between
do not be afraid in this endeavour
visions of hope will come to you
and before the time of forever
eyes will open, and see a renew
even in the darkness, there will be light
as mist descends from the
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Categories:
nature society, dream, education, emotions, giving,
Form: Rhyme
A lament of a nature lover on World Environment Day
She showers,
She falls,
She drenches us...
But she shows off a rainbow...
She shines,
She bursts,
She burns us sometimes...
But she lets the gentle breeze blow...
She makes us love the rain
She makes us hate it again
She makes us yearn for a bright sunlight
She makes us afraid of it
She makes our flowers grin and wilt
She makes us cry out
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Categories:
nature society, butterfly, environment, happiness, nature,
Form: Free verse
I AM AFRICA
I am Africa, the cradle of mankind,
Where ancient footprints in the sands of time entwined,
The birthplace of humanity, divinely designed,
In my esteemed valleys, where life first aligned.
I am Africa, the cradle of civilization,
Where mighty empires rose with determination,
From the ancient Egypt's pyramids to the Great Zimbabwe walls,
From glorious Mali Empire to Kingdom of Kush, history
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Categories:
nature society, africa, nature, society, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
Of the Larke Cumb
(etymology of a surname: Larcombe)
somewhere in the deepest dark of Somerset,
was a secret cumb, I know of not yet
where ancients did note
that many a Larke would wing,
for food,
to brood,
and sing
in those times a cumb was understated
with trees aplenty in it's forest,
where insects
unabated,
invite the Larke
fated
to dance with them as their guest.
as such, much gratiated,
the
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Categories:
nature society, environment, journey, nature, society,
Form: Free verse
City of Holographic Ants
two-legged ants dart
around & through
a holographic city
overcome by
an illusion of order
overwhelmed by
a terrestrial constellation
under cacophonous con(de)struction
six-legged ants dutifully
transport breadcrumbs to tiny
chasms in the mottled dirt
where cool dark silence
briefly mollifies
a holographic planet
under careless (de)construction
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Categories:
nature society, city, earth, nature, society,
Form: Free verse
There He Sadly Grows
From a little sapling to a tree,
He grows, he grows to be,
Stuck to its roots still,
Can’t go anywhere, can’t be free,
Stuck in the soil,
His own not allowing him to go,
He just sits there, where he sadly grows
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Categories:
nature society, family, nature, society,
Form: Free verse
New Haven Terminal
Across the track, a rail yard worker
big innocent bear of a guy, beer
belly, embraces his girl. She’s
a conductor, comes up to that belly,
reaches arms not quite around
his back. They separate and embrace
three times while the train prepares
for departure.
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Categories:
nature society, future, mother, nature, society,
Form: Free verse
Tibetan Spring Sunrise
cold harsh desolate terrain
where life to us seems hostile and cruel
gardens painstakingly nurtured
with minimal returns
so much effort so little gain
yet a most appreciative and spiritual people
atop their mountains so close to God
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Posted on October 13, 2022
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Categories:
nature society, appreciation, nature, society, spring,
Form: Free verse
Worker Bee With No Name
Sailing in the air as a worker with no name
Trailing the air to find liquid gold that sun and earth did birth
Prevailing and seeing gold guarded by bright coloured cushions all the same
Unfailing is the emerald pillar that has this bed sit above the earth
Unfailing, I go back to the home
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Categories:
nature society, animal, beautiful, earth, nature,
Form: Lento
Monsters In the Sky
the sky erupts monsters
sky erupts monsters forming
erupts monsters forming wreaking
monsters forming wreaking havoc
forming wreaking havoc shattering
wreaking havoc shattering serenity
havoc shattering serenity bolts
shattering serenity bolts of
serenity bolts of hell
bolts of hell deluge
of hell deluge descending
hell deluge descending releasing
deluge descending releasing horror
descending releasing horror drowning
releasing horror drowning beings
horror drowning beings winds
drowning beings winds of
beings winds of wrath
winds
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Categories:
nature society, dark, horror, nature, society,
Form: Concrete
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