Brave your own battle, O Draupadi - 3
...Take to arms, who will come ye to save?
What hope from face-less faces ye have?
Never plead, nor for them ever rave,
From shameless what succour can ye crave?
Take to arms, none will come ye to s...
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Categories:
transliterated, women, world,
Form: Epigram
Watch in vain - 2
...Hard put as *****Sapiens to prove,
Far off left have we oh, home of love.
Lose virtue, watch in vain Sita’s woes,
Jatayu long dead, scarce can we move.
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Categories:
transliterated, history, women, world,
Form: Epigram
All the world has turned blind - 1
...Captive truth in pages stay confined,
History no kind be to mankind.
In vain Draupadis cry,
We all watch will-less dry,
Why just Dhritarashtra?
Proud, what we call rashtra,
Perhaps all of the ...
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Categories:
transliterated, history, women, world,
Form: Limerick
Chaim Nachman Bialik: On the Slaughter of the Jews
...Holocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter of the Jews"
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Merciful heavens, have pity on me!
If there is a God approachable by ...
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Categories:
transliterated, bible, holocaust, horror, murder,
Form: Verse
Lux Nova
...^b^
Lux Nova
(after Notre Dame)
The light at Suger's
St. Denis
precursor for mighty Notre Dame
Paints both floors in color.
Transliterated from the glass of guilds
Tracery and mul...
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Categories:
transliterated, beautiful, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
Wheel On a Stick Part 6
...The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing
At the Core is Decor
An intense psychological thriller about ruling class oligarch...
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Categories:
transliterated, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Unknown God
...THE UNKNOWN GOD
Heavy the burden, but light is [the way].
That’s when you put the Lord [in its place].
The sun may not be shining, but your [spirit shows].
That’s your [inner being aglo...
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Categories:
transliterated, creation, spiritual, symbolism, universe,
Form: Dramatic Verse