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The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 27, 28 and 29

...Part Twenty-Seven — Giti Speaks with Her Father and His Reply

Sweet Giti, like an idol fair,
A thousand hearts caught in her hair.

As soft and gentle as the breeze,
Her charm could bring stro...
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Categories: stroked, cute love,
Form: Masnavi

Premium MemberGinger Cat

...I have this little Ginger Cat.
Lord knows what he sees
in me! – cutest adoring eyes
I don’t deserve; purrs in 
reserve, as he settles to cuddle
and be stroked. 
   All I do is feed him, a bowl ...
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Categories: stroked, christian, forgiveness, funny love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberwhat a palette

...
he liked it black and white with no greys in between
even when cracks appeared so strikingly evident
strictly speaking he preferred pink purple and orange
yet when life gave him lemons the brush...
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Categories: stroked, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

The Murmuration

...l saw her by the edge of the burnt mossy wall
and she was watching high above,  over forests so tall
then as the dusk gathered starlings,  that danced in the melting sun
it was the breathless disp...
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Categories: stroked, imagination, longing, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPoint of No Return

...The point of no return could be global or individual 
but never is it in the middle. 

It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope held by tentative
strands of rope that weaken and deny what hear...
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Categories: stroked, change, conflict, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse



Sisters

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My sisters stroked my girlfriends hair
Saying lovely hair
Then both of them went into
a cupboard under the stairs
Like something a la Burton

Sorry my ex-girlfriend

I am ashamed by my co...
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Categories: stroked, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberXemidoofnac

...A heron watched me 
from painted rushes,
brush-stroked by a man 
who lived in a wagon
lacquered with stars 
and road-dust and wind,
who sometimes drank too much
and thundered.
They say he wan...
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Categories: stroked, art, bird, imagery, in
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTouch

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Childhood has me
with a fevered brow 
being gently stroked 
and bathed in the cool 
of a caring breath
as I lay sick -
recalling, when I was
only six years old,
the electric thrill
that ...
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Categories: stroked, childhood, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

When the Door Stays Locked

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You’ll come 
Knocking on my door 
One of these days 

And you’ll know 
What it’s like 
To be able to feel your insides 

That uncanny descending feeling 
Like a rock being dropped 
In t...
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Categories: stroked, boyfriend, break up, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNevermore, Whatever For?

...My eyes wandered through an old photograph.
Pausing suddenly, I dissolved in tears,
remembering how, the first half of half
of my life, you were with me all those years, 

and how my young love,...
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Categories: stroked, grief, hair, humor,
Form: Other

Premium Memberdeparture

...departure
 
i touched her face
then kissed her lips
and stroked her tears
as i turned away
 
her hair was long
i brushed it aside
and we kissed again
as never before
 
i remember h...
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Categories: stroked, farewell, kiss, leaving,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Road to Maximus and Winter’s de-Reckoning

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“The Road to Maximus and Winter’s de-Reckoning” 

Winter pulled me into Her
like I was Her new season
and cooly stroked my fevered skin 
like the contours of my body 
we...
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Categories: stroked, muse,
Form: Narrative

She’s Been Here Before

...Once green and firm,
she danced, 
on the boughs edge.
Whirling and dipping, 
through the breezes, 
of changing seasons.
She basked, 
in hot summer suns.
Rejoicing in the adulation,
heaped up...
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Categories: stroked, death, life, political,
Form: Free verse

The Ballad of The Lucky Man

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The Ballad of the Lucky Man

She visited me at 15

Like an untasted maelstrom of tempestuous emotions

She whispered like a midnight seductress

So mysterious and so enchanting

She st...
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Categories: stroked, love,
Form: Rhyme

My cat can’t be happy

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Ok God hear it is
I spent eons perfecting an animal that cares about nothing I call it a……Cat
Gabriel beams as he places it gently in Gods lap

Could you please remove it
It is making a weir...
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Categories: stroked, poems,
Form: Free verse

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