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Attitudes An Open Form

ATTITUDES
 ever rising
in
 temporary
affirmatives
&
hidden
uncertainties
in
 conditioned
optimism

a
radical change
envisaged
of
time unlearnt
with
 reciprocating
gestures
 of
 mutual respect
 ever lasting

Death of a Fool

Should a fool die
before their sunset time,
Many would lightly regard
this darkly demise

If a fool prematurely died
for being unwise
The pause period, to ponder this err plight,
won’t change too many minds
who scoff surmise

The death of a fool
is frost common as winter cold
Jester years unlearnt
simply weren’t 
meant to ever sagely grow old


09-28-21

Sad

In the learning of the world and it’s pain, it’s rules and it’s sadness
I’ve unlearnt myself 
And that is the true tragedy.

Poetic Living

I am introspective
I am extrospective
I am healing my ills
I am building my will

I narrate
I assimilate
I am making sound out of ink
I am settling a drifting idea till it sinks 

I memorise
I picturise
I am hanging onto the past 
And yet embracing the future

I am reciting
I am writing
I am burning the unburnt
I am learning the unlearnt

I am not a poet yet until I get
The will
To sink
Into the future
Weaponised by what I have learnt

Pride

defiant
     disdain
haughty
    self-reliance
envelops,
   then
     devours..
the proud:
taunts
provokes
    distrust,
if
never
unlearnt
becomes
    marooned
on
   an
     island
       of
           one..
..alone

Lessons

Joy seeps away
Hazy smog suffocates;
Madness bears fruits

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Next holocaust
Breathless dying slowly;
Asphyxia mumbling 

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So many lessons
Unlearnt spoilage;
Malicious intent

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Upside down world
Unscrupulous and greedy;
Exploits souls

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Jigsaw puzzle:
Use things well,
Love people more

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Cash and carry,
Burn the fields;
What AQI?

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One world
Connected swirls;
Extreme pain hurls

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Use people huh?
Make more money;
Discharge smog?

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Ashy fragrance
Too much perfume;
No contrition

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Nature groans
Suffocated earth;
Mankind in crisis

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Humanity
Cruel predator;
Death comes slowly

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Leon Enriquez
26 October 2015
Singapore

To the Unavailable Lover

I know. I have left you
With your worst enemy: your own.
I am only keeping what I’ve unlearnt
Throughout your education of me:
The enchantment of dialogic desire
And the near perfection of shared intimacy.
In this furnished house of you,
I walked in and I walked out
Because I am not yours to hold
And mould into a keepsake.
You think the unchanged shall rob
Me more and dare me less
Than living in the adventure of you.
While the projection of me bears fault,
The inside woman is burdened,
Yet, alive and introvertedly poignant.
Indeed, I live coarsely and serve the devil
That pulls at my flesh till words sprout
Into wingless birds of ink
And I give myself more to this dream
Of a minor god than to your atomized
Version of how love has never failed me.
Still, who dreamt up whom in the end?

Still the Same Man In My Own Right

I caressed your body all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.
Hope, will stay there forever.
I was a man of great dreams and desires

I never treated you a subordinate eve
What I gave you was privileged pleasure
I never gave you the pain of childbirth 
It was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.
I was a man of great dreams and desires.

Now that you have left me for reason,
I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.
I am still the same man in my own right 

I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I am still the same man in my own right

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September 1, 2014
Form: Free Verse
Dr. Ram Mehta
Contest: When Doing Wrong feels So Right by Jared Pickett

What I Gave You

Now that you have left me for reason,
I am a man of passed-out desires
And passed over dreams
I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.
I’m a man of passed-out desires

I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I'm a man of passed over dreams.
I caressed your body all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.
Hope, will stay there forever.
I'm a man of passed out desires
I never treated you a subordinate eve
What I gave you was privileged pleasure
I never gave you the pain of childbirth 
It was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.
I'm a man without dreams and desires.

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June 27, 2014
Form: Free Verse
Dr. Ram Mehta
Fourth Place Win
Contest: What I gave by Sheri Fresonke Harper

To Pamela

Now that you have left me for reason,
I am a man of passed-out desires
And passed over dreams
Of passed-out desires
I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.
I’m a man of passed-out desires

I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I'm a man of passed over dreams.
I caressed your body all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.
Hope, will stay there forever.
I'm a man of passed out passions.
I never treated you a subordinate eve
You were only privileged to get pleasure
You never got the pain of childbirth from me
It was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.
I'm a man without dreams and desires.

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OPTION; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOX_ACdOmQE (Bette Midler's version of Tom Waits "Martha")

Date 2-3-14
Form : Free Verse
Dr. Ram Mehta
First Place Win

Arson Tonight

My passion burns like arson tonight
this fire yes, I did ignite
I was the dead oak tree, your provided the gasoline...

All consuming, flames licking the sky
screams of terror, then my sighs
I played with matches, and got burnt, no lesson here can be unlearnt.

I ruined my friendship and lover too
mixing them together, I should have knew
the oldest proverb in the book, love and lust can be mistook

Why I chanced it, I’ll never know
I’d rather have my friend back, the lust can now go
Its a mingling that cannot be undone, I’d wish it’d change with the rising sun....

Why, I pray ?
Did I screw this up!

andreatravis
copyright10-31-12

Ode To Pamela

Ode to Pamela

Now that you have left me for reason,
I am a man of passed-out desires
And passed over dreams

I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.

I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I caressed your breasts all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.

I never treated you a subordinate eve
You were only privileged to get pleasure
You never got the pain of childbirth from me
I t was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.

Unlearning

Everybody was in hurry to unpack
the sins and reshuffle the names
of burns, by taking a holy dip
in mauve lake. I wanted to defang them.
Acid attack had the inversion effect
on the expressions.

It was an obscene vision
unrolling the infant
for bleeding an opponent. The procession
moved on. Details never came out.
Only the flaming bodies, loud thuds
and the screaming virgins.

This was unlucky for the hutments,
fragile poles crumbled down, unspeakable
emptiness on the faces. Something has
to be unlearnt. Too much pain of 
the knowledge. Ectopic pregnancy?


 
SATISH VERMA

The Times.

Sometimes i get scared in the dark!
at some rhyme!or even a dogs bark.
a blinding light!a broken out fight!
is it coming from my mind or my heart?
The things i compare day and night,
and songs of despair to ease ones fright!
Man has always been made ever ready!
to run away from scenes of utter nessesaties!
Inbuilt preservation till our paths end!
A will unlearnt!and self curing mends!

Eternal Party.

With hair from our fathers body we were dressed to impress.
from the finest weavers who were especialy blessed.
Fruits made to make you merry as the food was shared.
with hoots of laughter carrying the old ones now unaware.
The family was more old and young now.
And the parents had a task to tend.
The harmony had ended like the plow!
Man was now bent over something to mend!
There was discontent and drunkeness,
and fights both mouthed and spilled.
Fairness unlearnt in foolishness,
brought flight towards the distant hills.
I remained with my father to tidy up the place.
holy bloodstained splatters of the human race.
I wear his clothes that he made himself!
Sharing my robes of all the worlds wealth!

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