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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
Cycling amidst the gloom and glee
She pedals the life's tapestry while
People whisper the bad and good thing
She'd lived in her life,
Though lying in sick-bed
No one dared to spare her;
She still held her head high
And nothing changes her mood.
A lethal disease is not a reason,
And she stood her knee to death,
A source of heartache
that bid me in deep within
Poverty isn't the reason
but unreason man: kids and kin,
A cold hearted person,
a living-death that surrounds her made it.
Amara, goddess of life
couldn't hold her still so
Death does us part in a blink of an eye.
Materialistic longing I do not need them,
Empathy and understanding makes man man.
Unity in timely need with little contribution
Would've given her a moment's breath.
A life of love and laughter beside the fire
Will rumble low in all the hearts but not.
Five sons and two daughters hold
Her womb their world
but few showed the concern
Recalling in pain and remorse
Why doesn't love and unity abide?
Golden crown isn't about life but
A heart that held closely tide.
Disunity and death clutches
and grip her breathe
But her fond memories
will forever linger among us.
Written by - Leo Phakhuimi Kashung.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
Her audacity is worth trekking
She's weathered hell and high.
No other woman of her age
Has faced such trials.
In silence, she weeps,
A mountainous pain
Nobody dares to listen,
no one has walked her shoes:
it's bone-chilling.
She discover herself amidst the pain,
A spark that ignites her soul.
Forged in struggle, she's reborn,
Rising higher and stronger.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
Every soul is liberated the day Christ went down to the grave
Ascending high above heaven, Christ bridged the gap between earth and sky, like a cloud parting from the ocean
Sacrificing and sanctifying with his blood of all sinners.
The word once a prophecy now a liberating source of all man
This early Church tradition became a worldwide feast here on earth
Redeemed by Christ who bled as a sacrificial lamb once and for all.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
In the heart of the fire, there lies its essence
Beauty isn't found outside the world but deep within.
True Happiness doesn't derive in materialistic possession
But in little things we share together around.
I desire, not of the high status but Simplistic living!
Sharing the little things we have I find the real meaning.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2025
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
A vision seized me, before
The marriage of my kin.
Betrothed to a faith apart,
Like a stray from the hallowed ground;
where forefathers had etched:
A devout Catholic and a pioneer,
A premonition of life truth.
I wandered through the paddy field,
Where crystal water surged;
Fishes of all sizes I had a huge catch.
Between, a river parted,
As white as a snowy flake and high;
Down and below, muddy water reaches their neck.
A laundry basket, brimming over their balanced head
I waved them to join me where abundance flowed.
But they insisted on not coming,
For they had decided their life: shallow and creek
They'd to fetch the water with a small mug.
Life's destiny weaves one's tapestry
And no external forces can confine us.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
I wander like a reeds,
editing woes consume me
I spent countless late nights
Guidance sought in artistic hand
Wisdom dawn within
Of the artist whose hand I revere
Their lessons I absorbed
But with little improvement
And there's no solution after.
But words take fight
and poems take their stride.
With words gives some sinews and muscles, giving them a breath of life
Woven into a beautiful poem
You are reading now.
One path may close another beacon bright,
The closed door, a key to the chamber of the unseen.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2025
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
People driving swiftly
While I was walking
on a rainy path alone,
Many passers passed by.
Then in blues a man
Drove an abandoned road uphill
While the usual being over used.
My legs stride the uphill
Though dreamscape,
It's a mirage of true life:
The shouldering of life's
Call and commitment
Of family's well being.
An Alto car I carried upon
My shoulder and climbed
That uphill , Yes I climbed it.
The road might be plain,
Rough and rugged,
Uphill and downhill
I'll beat with
The rhythm of
My heart and no one
Shall hinder nor block me.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
Dare to tell my story, unique and bold,
Compose and consume, my truth to unfold.
Dare to voice my choices, loud and clear,
Dare to stop the unwanted, and calm my fear.
Like a sculptor, I'll chip away the pain,
Furnish my soul, and emerge anew again.
With every step, I'll dare to try,
To win or lose, but never say die.
I'll remove every filthy scalp of doubt,
And rise above, with a spirit devout.
My story's mine, and I'll dare to tell,
A tale of courage, of trials to compel.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
DISTANCE OF INFINITE LOVE
Thou'll travel in the distance horizon,
And I shall hear thee no more.
Miles and miles stretch in between;
But I'll recall and hold thee tight,
Waiting for the tides ebbing by.
A cuckoo's melody whose ear is unheard of,
I'll wait for the season to pass.
A seedling of love will rumble low,
Our love shall ripple among the waves.
Cling on dearly beloved our love fathoms the dead!
The tides and the harsh waves,
Will be composed and calm and the breeze shall be our season
And I shall wed thee surpassing the damned cold weather.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2025
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Leo Phakhuimi Kashung Poem
They say, Music never sleeps, and true my heart never sleeps loving you.
Like a guardian tigress, I'll guard
the eternal sanctuary of our union,
where love remains forever true.
Love be our highway, dark and blue;
Though cold and calm or bleak,
with grit we'll go through.
My heart remains true: broken or torn, bleed or bruise, to build our fortress love.
Copyright © LEO Phakhuimi Kashung | Year Posted 2024
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