Critterature: the Frustrated Llama
...The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces.
"The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces.
"The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his dissertation,
"And a 'lama' is ...
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Categories:
yama, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Death, When Soul Wills To Part
...In thoughts of death when sleep possessed my eye,
I saw a daunting figure, benign still:
I’ve come to escort thee by divine will,
Hope, with thy own wise will ye will sans why.
Scores of my b...
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Categories:
yama, death,
Form: Sonnet
Bonnie Yama
...Once upon a midnight dream
in the lush Andes scene.
Bonnie Yama jewel thief
went after Emerald green
She planned a master scheme
Her need to get away unseen
Stick with her routine
grab those ...
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Categories:
yama, adventure,
Form: Monorhyme
Flight
...The Soul takes her eternal flight when the physique lies dead,
This, in theologies, is very beautifully said;
Does she have her wings? Or has just ethereal effect?
Though mystery, this concept is...
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Categories:
yama, body, flying, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Valueless Virtues
...weeping for a worm
when cosmos on brink of doom
yama on an owl?
09 July 2021...
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Categories:
yama, irony,
Form: Haiku
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Viii
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part VIII
IF you pull a long face
On 2019 New Year's Day
While at 2018 stick tongue out of face
You bade Her badbyes, everybody'd say
But if you pulled a long fa...
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Categories:
yama, farewell, goodbye, holiday, humorous,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Baton Ruler
...HE FLOW PROMISES IN FAVOUR OF PEOPLE.
BUT THE TIME WAS TO EARN VOTES FROM PEOPLE.
HE WAS AGAINST THE BRUTE AND ABUSIVE ACTIONS.
WAS NOT HAP BUT NOURISH HIS IMAGE FOR THE NASTY ELECTIONS.
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Categories:
yama, community, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: ABC
Requiem Hymn: Grace of Amitabha
...By the Grace of Amitabha,
You shall transcend the Samsara,
This mantra is your Sila,
Your Samadhi, and your Prajna,
The shield that demons fear,
The call that all yearn to hear,
The sword that...
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Categories:
yama, beautiful, life, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse
Malice Behind the Mask
...The esteemed guests streamed into the candle lit
Foyer and dissolved into a sea of idle courtly ritual,
Landowners, majors, magistrates, slender maidens
And fair matrons all slithered into the mo...
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Categories:
yama, dance, evil, music, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Life Is But a Slide Show
...Craving for an illusion
Chasing after phantoms
Life is like moving pictures
One slide after another
Played in rapid succession
Making us but a series of stills
King Yama is the director
Our...
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Categories:
yama, image, imagery, judgement, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The Jester's Tea Party: Simon Griffiths At the Round Tower Gallery, Frome, a Poetic Review
...I went to The Jester’s Tea Party
In the tower with the winding stair
Frida Kahlo manned the door
And God and the Devil were there
The artist was stood in the shadows
Silently summoning me
To st...
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Categories:
yama, art, beauty, inspiration, light,
Form: Rhyme
Limerick Crochetes: Once a Shy Lost Lass So-Called Orga-San
...Limericak crochetés: Once a shy lost lass so-called Orga-San
Once a shy lost lass so-called Orga-San
Had much difficulty getting what you can
Heard of fly-catcher
Good at swatting lair
G...
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Categories:
yama, girl, happiness, paradise, woman,
Form: Limerick
Living In Eternity
...Living in eternity
That time has now come
as Yama has reached
With chariot, white horses
to fetch me up above,
Above these soft clouds
beyond those blues,
Another world farther tha...
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Categories:
yama, death,
Form: Free verse
Where Dead Go
...Although the place where the dead go is called the world beyond,
some say that it’s located underground while others say that it’s located in heaven above.
Since the world beyond is not the real ...
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Categories:
yama, allegory, death, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Highway of Heroes -Yama-
...People gather around
wait for them to come home,
our heroes of war
their free spirits, now roam.
People do salute them
travel the 4 0 1,
the Highway Of Heroes
sits beneath the...
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Categories:
yama, imagery, inspiration, loss, military,
Form: I do not know?
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