Does my PTSD gets in the way of my character by
Unknown and recognized faces in any situations to
neutralize my energy? Because of someone 's else
Pre judgments, forced opinions, making false
deliberate spoken assumptions with slandering, personal
attacts. My character Assassinations
My feelings seems If I'm trapped in someone's else box
of how I should verbalize or how one portray me as one
see fits. My Character Assassinations
If the tables were reversed how would the assassinators
feel? My Character Assassinations
To dress well seems well worth a thought,
In merit, dress matters a lot:
Dressed in silk, to Vishnu so suave,
Father Ocean his daughter gave,
In tiger skin, Shiva a venom-pot.
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Translation |22.10.2024| dress, clothes, daughter, marriage
Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. This one asks a question, why should one dress well? And then proceeds to answer it by illustration. During samudra manthanam (Great Churning of Ocean), goddess Lakshmi when came out, father ocean gave her in marriage to Vishnu who was well dressed and well groomed, not to Shiva who was clad in tiger skin, and smeared with ash . Later when venom came out, it was only Shiva who could neutralize it. Think, both were eminently suitable otherwise. The transliteration of the Sanskrit verse follows:
Kim vaasasaa tatra vichaaraneeyam,
Vaasah pradhaanam khalu yogyataayaah |
Pitaambaram veekshya dadau sva-kanyaam,
Charmaambaram veekshya vishham samudrah ||
Street life is like
Wild life; law is needed to
Neutralize troubles.
Few couples can above flaws rise,
An average spouse on them spies,
Take each flaw— his and her—
To mix them together,
Stir and mix as to neutralize,
Then pray, count on your luck,
Unlike dew upon duck,
There’s good chance, each flaw multiplies!
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Limerick, Tongue-in-cheek | 04.09.2018 | marriage
Poet’s note: Take heart, an average couple seems happily married, for, their flaws are.
To nature's norms have I complied -
I laughed, I cried, I lived. I tried.
I'd like to think in aftermath
There's more to my existence path.
I paid the procreation dues,
Dear offspring and their offspring too.
My children opened up my eyes
Far beyond me, myself and I.
The grandkids taught me quite a bit -
There's more to golden age than knit.
No shutters to wondering mind,
Just open it and you will find -
In brighter hue the greener grass
Is on our side in front of us.
Power is not how much but how
To stay aboard the flight of now.
Retired bliss converts the course -
Discretionary time to pause.
Smelling the roses is a must
As flower fanfare fading fast.
Hunger for knowledge, free to sate,
But wisdom's pride is heavyweight.
(No known tip-off to neutralize -
To shed the weights and keep the wise).
The all time norm by which I vow -
Not there nor then but here and now.
To nature's norms have I complied -
Once upon a time lived I!
February 27, 2023
To fully enjoy life, you must love yourself.
So dust your dendrites and jump off the shelf.
In order to neutralize your angst and strife,
You must love yourself, to fully enjoy your life.
Within your sweet heart your secrets are solid and secure.
Keep them innocent and keep them protected and pure.
Loving yourself unconditionally is what will keep you apart.
Your secrets are solid and secure within your sweet heart.
Self-approval and full actualization -your ultimate life goal.
Living your empowering truth nurtures your spirit soul.
Idealistic living and nirvana can be an actual factualization.
Your ultimate life goal – self approval and full actualization.
Keep an open heart and inspire others to enhance your truth.
Loving yourself first will be the role modeling living proof.
To honor your kinsmen, relatives, fathers and empathetic mothers,
To enhance your truth, keep an open heart and inspire others.
Written 7-8-2020
Contest: Swap Quatrain
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
I Won't Give Up This the life
I'm living
Until I'm neutralize nourished and forgiving
All in one
I believe I've been called
Called to God's righteousness
I will not falter or fail
I will receive Jesus I will
For me to Blossom as a tree a flower
I will be here for Jesus hung and He died on the cross
For me
I won't give up this life
I'm living until I am nurtured and forgiving
I am a living testimony
All in all I believe in
In Him
I've been call call to God's righteousness
I would not flutter no-fail I received these as well
For me a calling
To to Blossom as a tree growing
As He Jesus died on the cross for me
So I have succeeded and I believed
That I'm free
Free To Laugh
Free to love
Freedom from sin and shame
I called on the name of the king
I won't give up this life I'm living,
until I am nurtured and forgiving
All-in-all I believe I've been called
Call to God's righteousness
8/8/17
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2017, 2019
War
Terrifying, dangerous
Burning, destroying, spreading
Fire, bullets, olive branch, white flag
Flowing, reconcile, neutralize
Calm, quiet
Peace
Forgo friendships built on sand dunes
Scattered in the desert of expediency
Driven by greed and ceaseless searches for fortunes
Flying in air balloons of inefficiency.
Forgo fantasies caught up in streams of nonsense
Cajoled in monsoons of short-termism
Driven by myopia and a seasoning of offence
Regurgitated with aplomb to neutralize feminism.
Forgo dreams of grandeur granted a status
Commensurate with duplicity and paucity
Of ideas and ideals in a sea of hiatus
Longing to break free of opacity.
Forgo attachments fastened to fragility
Expressed in tones sugar-coated
To energize and incentivize febrility
In friendships deemed overrated.
The hawk dives from a phone tower into the unknown;
Only if I can see him for a fleeting moment
Inability to grasp a hold of and neutralize that subtle uncertainty
A whisper is the difference between a stagnant life and a decent living;
Your words are like sirens in the ears of my Chihuahua
But she didn’t tell me that I would survive the jump
Some things are inevitable, who or what brings life ultimately brings death.
I see you
The sun burns black bulging blotches into my bleached skin;
I see you
The fire scorches like lava poured directly on my heart
I see you
The soot gathers in my lungs and I gasp; I can’t breathe,
I can’t speak
And I won’t
Love is the grip of a lionesses teeth in the neck of a gazelle.
I will look into your eyes in that moment
And finally realize what I’ll never have.
Tear-drops kisses skin scale
lover prayer heard fail
sun rise not today
for i tumble a cry
Clarify missile elegy
poets own pantomime
target inner blood line
Abel's gifts crop lien
what else to define
world crisis; fine
Darts light match-sticks
indicators get th' tip
th' innocent th' sip
th' seductive th' trip
runs then airsick
trying to hold or pick
some old garment fic
neutralize grip
th' lure wins th' snip
As the fires of hell the monster's blood boiled
And I knew like a volcano letting out magma
Would explode the monster of my manufacture.
Spirit of competition, game of fraud poker our card
Now deadly gasoline in our trembling hands.
Cajoling eager matchbox in the hands of another
That holding hands,in the rain we go and dance
So it may not fiercely burn when struck.
Because just as the very hell so sure
With blind eyes wide open so apart
And deaf ears listening to hidden voices from afar
Would wooden stick and paper box in trembling hands
Strike to neutralize,not ever complement gasoline never.
With no minds, set their hearts playing deadly cards!!!
Pain or peace, postulate and prosper,
Acknowledge and assist, apprehend altogether,
Notice in neglect, navigate nevertheless,
Divide or defect, daunted by distress,
Evaluate the envisioned, escaping exacerbation,
Manic in manipulation, meticulous magnification,
Objective opinions, oppressed and obstinate,
Negative notions, neutralize and negate,
Impossible ideas, illumination inevitable,
Understanding ubiquitous, unity universal,
Mitigate modification, material mausoleum.
Pandemonium? Pandemonium. Pandemonium! Pandemonium!!!
1st August 2016
Embrace Emergency
Embrace an earthly chore
Make a mountain for someone in mourning
Engrave your name on the placard of god
Relax and think about something soothing like rain
Generate the power of goodness in your soul and heart
Enhance the power of peace and love in your mind
Neutralize the world for the new generation
Collect the power of your savior
You will flourish if you do what is right
Songs unsung will disappear,
as breathless as a stone, the fear
of Armageddon fills the air
and gathers strength against the prayer
that withers, fizzles into naught,
despite the lessons we were taught
to love our neighbors as ourselves,
not disrespect our worthy lives,
or take His name in vain, the strain
of bleeding from another's pain,
the art of empathy forsaken,
carefree paths so quickly taken
Thoughts are squandered, so are souls
who sanctify disparate goals
and chase false dreams on sand consigned,
the facts misjudged and misaligned.
Cause and effect, a law of nature,
who to kill and who to nurture,
what to crucify or kiss?
the measure of our helplessness.
There is no try, there's only do,
and I'll expect the same from you,
to strip away dishonesty,
the hallmark of our misery.
To live in love and purity
we'll neutralize our enmity
and join together, hand in hand,
no hurtful lies, no contraband.
The answer lies among the stars
unnumbered in the universe,
a child's first breath, the blushing rose,
where hatred cannot interpose.
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