To The Other Side
...Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that is that
I will match the older boy’s vim and whim
Two strong boys armored ...
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Categories:
salvages, best friend, endurance, father
Form: Free verse
A Lost Touch
...I touched her hand and the warmth of her soul
rushed my veins like a mad river,
obliterating all doubts.
Would that I survive the tumult, the undying desire
to touch her skin again, even for a mo...
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Categories:
salvages, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Colonizers Why You Take Whats Not Yours My Spokenword
...Colonizers WHY YOU TAKE WHATS NOT YOURS
Man interest in other lands, peoples and territories and things
What other people got they want it for themselves
It’s there’s you know the rest
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Categories:
salvages, adventure, analogy, environment, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Taking Bare of Yourself
...Taking Bare of Your Self
Reflecting on the silent moments when the Self absorbs itself
Tim is called preposterous a villain and contentious narcissist
He looks into the mirror ponders on ponds...
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Categories:
salvages, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Datum of Love
...
Under the silence of my
Troubled soul,
She remained my
Datum of love.
I don't know how it happens,
That you meet the one you love,
She brings you down,
The one who salvages you
Isn...
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Categories:
salvages, confusion, lost love,
Form: ABC
A Sea of Boyhood Dreams
...An expansive view of tumbling sand and lasting memories
make seagulls swoop in broad paintbrush strokes
over brothers bonded by baseball and a broken home.
Within a sandcastle, two boys ...
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Categories:
salvages, adventure, art, beach, childhood,
Form: Verse
Caged Bard
...(for Manoranjan Byapari, a rickshaw puller who writes Bangla novels, stories and autobiography)
--Jaydeep Sarangi
You may dismiss all I record here
Stop! Please don’t ignore...
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Categories:
salvages, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bllod of Bondage
...BLOOD OF BONDAGE.
Stiff was the blood of bondage
Across the highways of the mind.
Voyaging to the edge of universe
In explorations for hidden girth
The silent tangents explored
Where th...
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Categories:
salvages, philosophy, writing, universe,
Form: Lyric
Recourse
...Recourse
The old man bends his
knees-
to the graveyard of
speech.
His barren stretched arms
raise up.
Orates the last
of his unpronounced
plea,
for a piece of sky,
for a grip of dust.
Unr...
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Categories:
salvages, absence,
Form: Ballad
Angel Seeds
...Angel Seeds
She salvages a broken, fertile land
with seeds to plant undoing the disease.
A grim reminder man in harmful stand
of idol, money market’s greedy wheeze.
She spins the future opening the ...
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Categories:
salvages, faith, inspirational, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Blood of Bondage.
...Stiff was the blood of bondage
Across the highways of the mind.
Voyaging to the edge of universe
In explorations for hidden girth
The silent tangents explored
Where the universe still expands
...
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Categories:
salvages, imagination
Form: Free verse
Officer's Asking For Death (Angel of Sadness)
...So it’s been an average day
Nothing good, some bad
Is that what we salvages say?
Officer pulls me over at the Kangaroo
Says our tail lights out, wants to search the car
Well do what you cho...
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Categories:
salvages, art, death, life, death,
Form: Free verse