Thru-Hiker
...I wanted to find myself, so I got lost in the woods,
Turns out life’s easier without all the shoulds.
The rhythm of steps was a meditation
Twelve hours a day in God’s lovely creation.
Even ...
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Categories:
tableland, america, journey, nature,
Form: Lyric
The Mystic Valley of Dzoku
...While rambling like a vagabond in a seraphic poetic submersion, in a remote region, witnessed the most captivated sight ever,
a sleeping valley rippled in wild blooms, as sparkling in mystical cele...
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Categories:
tableland, adventure, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
The Fiesta of Cherry Blossom
...Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the cloud,” in the lush mesa of the magn...
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Categories:
tableland, celebration, nature, paradise, visionary,
Form: Free verse
The Utopia Untrodden
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Have seen an utopian lane, amidst the thicket, latent In the abode of the clouds, in the lap of the tranquil wilderness, far far away from the mundane mist!
A wheezing sparsely inha...
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Categories:
tableland, appreciation, beauty, culture, farm,
Form: Pastoral
Wild Grass: Farewell To a Friend
...Wild Grass on the Tableland—Farewell to a Friend
The grasses on the tableland run wild,
Once in a year they perish and flourish.
The wildfire can’t burn them up in the field;
They regrow in verna...
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Categories:
tableland, friend, friendship, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
On the Plateau
...On The Plateau
Remote Island in the sky, on the plateau
Above the lowlands removed and separated
Nine thousand foot drop prevents our leaving
We watch others like ourselves down there
Telescop...
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Categories:
tableland, absence, change, desire, earth,
Form: Didactic
Robin Hood's Egalitarian Strand
...A merry band to profer hope in the land
A lute, fiddle, drum to make brigandry grand
A staff, bow, arrow to strafe the noble strand
A sworn oath to lawful king; a sword to gentry's overbearing hand
A...
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Categories:
tableland, adventure, education,
Form: Rhyme
Strange Plateau
...strange picture frames lie on the scorched
earth of the barren plateau, crooked and jagged..
to strange for her bucket of watercolors.
to obscure for pastel horizons to rupture in light.
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Categories:
tableland, allegory
Form: I do not know?
Ghost of An Achievement
...In anger he conspires
creates havoc on his way down,
simply spoils one’s hair
when revealing one’s crown.
He aid’s Monday’s wash
with the strength of a kiss,
commands the clouds, rain,
many ...
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Categories:
tableland,
Form: Rhyme
The Poor Boy's Tale
...The grey-haired by on our streets
With rags hanging his shoulder as his only cloak
Every night on banana leaves he sleeps;
He has no crump nor cakes let alone a glimpse of hope
All day his leg ...
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Categories:
tableland, inspirational, life, passion, day,
Form: Verse
Raw
...Navigation by the soul,
Feet caravan the heavy load.
Roam far beyond the horizon calling,
Searching the stainless tableland.
Ocean plain blue,
Beauty not touched,
Leaving in peace.
Desert cann...
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Categories:
tableland, hope, imagination, life, seasons,
Form: I do not know?