Short To A Certain Extent Poems

The secret ingredients of Viagra I'm gonna present

There's Asprin, Ibuprofen, Vitamins A and C to a certain extent

        But the biggest surprise

        Which will open your eyes

is that Fix-A-Flat makes up over 90 percent!...

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As I wonder why
Somehow, parts of me find it within themselves
To find the answers to previous questions
So as to remain open 
And to continue to hear
And to always love-
All, blindly given with the unspoken hopes of their return in equal measure
Perhaps for a time
And, in a way
To a certain extent-
Maybe?
Will the wondering continue without end?
And, will the standing continue to be alone?...

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There’s a thunderstorm watch
Though it’s sunny outside
So I don’t feel the need
To take cover or hide.

Yet it may come to call
Like the weatherman said
And that knowledge will fill
Many people with dread.

But I don’t feel afraid;
I don’t need to be out.
If the thunder goes boom
I’ll enjoy it, no doubt.

For when Nature decides
She has reason to vent,
I admire her pluck
(To a certain extent)....

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The Death


It will knock everyone’s door
It may be today or later
It is neither an end nor a loss
Just a change in the changing world
In death, nothing we loose and
Nothing we gain
It is just a repayment to the lender
We can dodge to a certain extent but
We cannot evade once for all
It has no affection or aversion
It will come and takes with him with just

                          SAKTHI RAVICHANDRAN  AN INDIAN ENGLISH POET...

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