The Complaint Part 1
...Shikwa
THE COMPLAINT(Poem)
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Why should I choose the loser’s role? Forbear to seek what gain I may?
Nor think of what the morrow holds, But brood o’er woes of yesterday...
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Categories:
philomel, allah, faith, western,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Let Me
...-Let Me--
Let me caress your lips of twee
And let me get drunk in your breath.
Let me trace your body of balmy
And let me sleep under your heartening clasp.
Let me hold your hands of the bl...
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Categories:
philomel, anxiety, earth day, easter,
Form: Blank verse
To Apollo
...Fair Apollo, may I borrow your golden lyre
So I might strum a heavenly chord full of fire
Else, let me pluck a laurel from your grove
Towards greatness, ever I strove
But alas my fingers are no...
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Categories:
philomel, art, creation, motivation, muse,
Form: Rhyme
I Imagined a Rain
...It was a sunny day, half year gone,
the sky cloudless, the wind dry.
I had to imagine a rain, it had to be done.
The magic dyed the sky with gray
and made tears flow from a happy cry.
On a tim...
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Categories:
philomel, imagination, love, rain,
Form: I do not know?
Mocking Birds
...O fair lark who first sang with
Much summery mirth
She casts her gaze upon
Fresh pastures and dark waters
O sweet lark,
What see you in bright dawn light?
By day the mockingbird entertains
thoughts...
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Categories:
philomel, abuse, allegory, bird,
Form: Free verse