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
m...
...
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Categories:
unlearnt, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Broken Home
...A broken Home is
Not only when parents got divorce
Nor when one parent died.
It is a broken Home
When both parents are alive but there's no love.
When there's no unity,
Each has its own desire...
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Categories:
unlearnt, home, pain, parents,
Form: I do not know?
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...
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Categories:
unlearnt, death, people, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Clutching At Straws
...Clutching at Straws
I clutched a straw
albeit
one for me
that is
quite more
than enough
for I be just
one
It skews
in my hand
caused by the
grasp of it
hope its
release beckons
a r...
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Categories:
unlearnt, confidence, courage, imagery,
Form: Narrative
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....
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Categories:
unlearnt, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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 memoris...
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Categories:
unlearnt, perspective, philosophy, poems, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Let the Weak Say
...
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword ...
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Categories:
unlearnt, judgement, religious, truth, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Pride
...defiant
disdain
haughty
self-reliance
envelops,
then
devours..
the proud:
taunts
provokes
distrust,
if
never
unlearnt
becomes
marooned
on
an
island
...
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Categories:
unlearnt, pride,
Form: Verse
Lessons
...Joy seeps away
Hazy smog suffocates;
Madness bears fruits
~~~~~~~~~
Next holocaust
Breathless dying slowly;
Asphyxia mumbling
~~~~~~~~~
So many lessons
Unlearnt spoilage;
Malic...
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Categories:
unlearnt, angst,
Form: Free verse
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 share...
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Categories:
unlearnt, for him,
Form: Free verse
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 trea...
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Categories:
unlearnt, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
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
Betw...
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Categories:
unlearnt, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Free verse
China Travelogue 2
...Journey starts
Kunming portraits;
Highway song
Here old and new
Merge yet apart;
Vignettes juxtapose
China welcomes
Both ancient and modern;
Sign of the times
Tour group confronts
Unfamiliar gr...
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Categories:
unlearnt, holiday,
Form: Haiku
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...
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Categories:
unlearnt, betrayal, love,
Form: Free verse
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 ...
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Categories:
unlearnt, lost love, lust,
Form: Romanticism
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