Loss Ottava Rima Poems

Having long since ceased to weigh, measure or size,
presence no longer dwells upon loss or gain,
for having seen the Self, we now realise,
that bondage to...

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Surrounded by the mundane and inane,
we notice bliss magnetism yet hums on,
light of Self measures neither loss nor gain
and is with each breath, here and...

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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare

Summertime skies, the clouds passing on by
Revealing silhouettes in timeless mists
Smiling, risking...

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Mesmerized by the fire in his warm eyes
Love played over my soul, softly glowing
Beautiful alive, like glorious skies
Singing wonders to my life, hopes growing
Feelings so...

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Tasting loss of leaves before the Dagar winds
Its tracks of his mean cuts through her heart and trees

could somehow bar twice his ice before it...

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My heart fades, quivering lips whisper goodbye
Lightning flashes, thunder shakes the empty sky
Despair fills the mind of constant broken time
Sand flows endlessly within a crooked...

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I am the wave in the ocean of life;
bringing trouble to someone’s mind so clear!
I strike with water the firmness inside
in the sea of love...

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Spring in all it's glory is now coming,                
with flowers...

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Goodbye dear summer with your warm embrace.
We’ll miss the nighttime breeze’s soft caress.
The pall of autumn’s lying on your face,
as trees begin their dance in...

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The willow tree wrapped you in its dark embrace.
Bark had kissed your shell like a dagger.
Emerald leaves stitched a new grace.
Rain fell that day, tearful...

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The last sigh of the Moor, King Boabdil,
As he flees the triumphant Ferdinand,
Echoes round slopes of a mist-shrouded hill.
He looks back for the last time...

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Parting


     Now is the bleak night of our sad parting;

     Now the dulled hours, sharpening your absence

...

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Born in that historical and eventful year
when changes were sweeping this country,
peace songs were heard in the scary, tumultuous air...
not realizing the dear cost for...

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Diane was like any other Long Island mother,
but on July twenty six she made an horrible mistake by smoking pot,
resulting in the death of five...

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He chose the illegal way,
instead of honesty and prayer,
to deny his sordid existence with the blankest stare;
and while tragedy strikes home,
he can't evade those prisons'...

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