My Hair
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As a teenager, I was so lean and lanky.
My mother worried over my physical stature.
She believed that all the nutrients in my diet,
were rapaciously devoured by my hair.
From childhood ...
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Categories:
parlours, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Other
The Irony
...In this bared land of the fertile alphabets
You didn't spread out the mat of poetry
Thousands crore of years I rowed the oar of your spring
No smiling flower bloomed there in the desired tree
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Categories:
parlours, life, love,
Form: Free verse
The Pilgrimage
...Every six turns of the moon
A journey to the girl I take.
I leave behind my safe cocoon
Into the noise and into the fake.
The pungent smell of multicolours
Punching nose and mind alike.
I sit...
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Categories:
parlours, dream, happiness, loneliness, mental
Form: Rhyme
Why I Weep
...As the Bus with a sight, rumbled along,
Its weary cargo slumped, for the journey was long.
Babies in agony clung to wretched mothers
Oblivious they are without fathers,
Their only concern, to suc...
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Categories:
parlours, betrayal, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Time To Introspect
...What are we doing?what is our goal in life?
To look most appealing in front of all?
Be the topper in all? Have most money and fame?
To be praised by everybody?
We dress up well, attempt to look ...
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Categories:
parlours, absence, introspection,
Form: Free verse
I Remember You Happiness
...I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the coffee corner shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent
from the baker's sour ris...
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Categories:
parlours, happiness,
Form: Free verse
I Remember You Happiness
...I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the corner coffee shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent
from the baker's sour ris...
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Categories:
parlours, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Pains of Wasted Years
...Yesterday,
She was a beauty Queen,
Flying and walking on the smooth roads,
On the streets and restaurants,
Beer parlours and churches,
Like an angel from Venus,
The
Handsome,
Rich
And
Self ...
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Categories:
parlours, pain,
Form: Free verse
The View of Anthony Hepplethwaite 2013
...With a little tightening round the waist
the skinny day comes out to taste the
fatness of the light
I am in sight of something great but I’m hungry,
cannot wait
so I make my move too soon
and...
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Categories:
parlours, death, loss, political,
Form: Rhyme
A Day In Arcadia
...You leave the car at what was once,
in old reality, a farm and where the
National Trust democratise so now not cows
but parking motorists feel alarm.
Across a road are loos, ex milking parlou...
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Categories:
parlours, beach, beautiful,
Form: Verse
Twilight Zone
...The Twilight Zone
In the nearest town and close to all amenities
such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife
and went to look at an elderly people’s hotel
where people of a certain age get...
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Categories:
parlours, age, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Bio
Ironbar
...He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where...
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Categories:
parlours, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
The Penny Arcade
...The Penny Arcade
Back in the 1920's, Americans would go to entertainment
spots around big cities like New York and Chicago, were
you could go to have some fun, these places were run
very cheap...
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Categories:
parlours, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Rainbow Crayons and White Pages
...The children were asked to paint
What they remember of summerbreak
In other parts of the world
They would have painted beaches, bicycles
And smiling stickmen in front of ice cream parlours
Bu...
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Categories:
parlours, sad, war,
Form: Free verse
To Serve Is To Be Served
...To serve you took an
oath;
To lead in patriotism
And to shun nepotism.
To hold in esteem the
nation
And give back with
integrity its ration.
Like a leader being
called
To regard his ...
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Categories:
parlours, political, men, integrity,
Form: Verse
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