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Gowtham Ganni Mar 2018
Learn to learn –
from your success but especially mistakes
from your friends but especially enemies
from your acquaintance but especially strangers
from the big events but especially small ones
from your teachers but especially peers
from the easy things but especially difficult ones

When you learn –
learn to focus on just learning and nothing else
learn to learn from any and every circumstance
learn to just learn inspite of appreciation or criticism
learn to leave your ego completely
learn to blindly follow the prudent guru
learn to be the best among all in learning
The above two verses are based on the teachings of Acharya Chanakya on the qualities of an ideal student
Sunny Mar 2018
An ideal day
Would be one
Where I know exactly what to say
To you.

An ideal day
Would be one
Where all my fears wash away
With you.

An ideal day
Would be one
Where I can just play
With you.

An ideal day
Would be one
Where I can press my lips to yours
Without fear.
Ana Feb 2018
Strong

Is a word used to describe the capacity in which we are able to carry amounts of weight

Strong

Is what we call body builders, muscley men and women who we look at and say "wow they're strong" just by looking at their shape

Strong

In the dictionary is described as "having the power to move heavy weights and perform other physically demanding tasks"

Strong

Means something different to me and when someone turns to me and asks

What does strength mean to you?

I respond with,

Strong

Is the woman that carries a child inside her for 9 months and perseveres

Strong

Is the person who has to force themselves to carry on after they lose someone dear

Strong

Is putting both of those things side by side and losing the woman that raised you

Strong

Is knowing she will never be there to face you

Strong

Is carrying on after having the most important person to you snatched right from your fingertips

Strong

Is trying to move forward knowing that your stomach will churn every time the word “Mum” comes to your lips

Strong

Is a word they tell me I am but why doesn't it feel that way?

Strong

Is a strength I hope to feel one day.
This poem has taken inspiration from the different forms of strength and what I believe strength is. How our perception of the "ideal" shapes our literal sense of strength rather than taking the time to consider what we actually believe is the true definition of strength.
Dakota J Dawson Feb 2018
I want you
to lust
after me

I believe
in being
vile and rude

Try to
understand my language
of impure thoughts

Condemned to afterlife
without relieve
from woe

Where is
my foe
of bout and confrontation?

I must be
left alone
with suspicious ideals

That border
on
the extreme

Of my consciousness
borrowing into my mind
destroying my being

Preventing relief
to the
depths of Hades

I'm not an angel
nor a worn object of time
but the untamable beast fighting love
Àŧùl Jan 2018
I am the soul that you have regained,
I am even the best crush you ever had.
I am the love story that will never end,
I am yours as if I have always been yours.
I am always ready to adjust and to bend,
I am ready just for you and only for you.
I am proud to stay happy with you only...
My HP Poem #1697
©Atul Kaushal
CC Nov 2017
It's the ones that get away that make you tap your ink on the screen
Helping themselves to servings of you to have you mercilessly dream
Succulent messy dishes that they mean to say
Descriptive rich adjectives that blur your mind away
So they devour you and everything you want to leave behind
They don't mean to but they say clearly what you are defined
They have all the hospitals holding broken hearts
And have you heard the rumors that they have no good start?
They are always in the middle
They never start or end
Forever making amends
Forever till they stop
Pretending is enough
If pretense is present tense
It's enough that they see you for who you are
It's enough if they find a real star
Blue and gaseous
They are so away so far
w Aug 2017
79
you don't need a boy who will call you beautiful
you need a man who will call you intelligent
a man who will tell your laugh is contagious
that you made him smile
that you have something to offer
saeesha Aug 2017
Such is the beauty of rainfall,
How it descends with a sound so dulcet,
How it transcends a feeling so euphoric
And such dazzle it exhibits
Like one, no one would dare to neglect.
But it makes me upset
How chaps romanticize rain,
They are fooled so much by the affection of their beloved
For they do not realize
The way it washes away the pain.

Little raindrops fall on my body
Fusing with my skin;
Oh, how they tell me to live
When they speak to me and tell me to
Nourish, and give life to my surroundings.

One may wonder that how
The rain makes me feel such way.
They fail to realize that the downpour
For me, is just a reflection of the ideal life
I perceive.
Ksjpari Aug 2017
A man rightly called an Oxymoron
Now is angry, now sad, now happy on
The same thing – he takes piton
To handle us – later I knew ******.
Anurag is my principal, a true merman
Treats all equally – good or bad of John.
Tried to understand when called upon.
Talking to him is like dealing with silicon.
Full of respect and encouragement shown
For anybody if needed; angry on python
Trying hit him at back. Never confused on
Any topic, asks if not notified – an Amazon
Of Maths flows from him – my Hero, my trigon.
I am developing a new style of writing poetry where ending words of a line rhyme with one another, at least in last sound. I named it Pari Style. Hope readers will like it. Thanks to those invisible hands and fingers which supported and inspired me to continue my efforts in my new, creative, artistic and innovative “Pari” style. Thanks for your inspiring, kind, soft fingers.
Shiny Star Aug 2017
Many a times, we dream of finding the ideal person
with whom we can share our life, ideas and dreams.
And we think of qualities he/she should have.
Why not have a bigger dream?
Think about this dream that I have:
Becoming the person I want the other person to be.
Why not have those qualities ourselves?
Why not become an ideal person yourself?
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