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Arvind Krish Mar 2016
The hues that we respire
the chants of myth
heavenly birds in the ghats
India brims with the untouched
borders of mortality
Kenēn Mar 2016
It's the division
That causes diversion
From the real reason
Why there's a nation.

From the classic white and black
To the queer and straight
Take it a step further
And we'll reach heaven and hell.

Ever wonder why there's a lease
Beyond the acts and protocols
That only binds and blinds
Slowly dimming our wits and our eyes.

Blunt barricade, sharpened doors
Batons as heavy as our souls
Houdini cannot unloose
Seamed and woven by our ironic prose.
Gourab Banerjee Jan 2016
The blood sheds
Are no more smelling
The surrounding is well sprayed
A fragrance of Night queen
Awkward seems to be with the
Shining day-light.
But yes,
We all are happy!
The constitution is successfully implemented
The roads are no more dumping ground
That place,
Now-a-days
Replaced by our heart.
I'm writing an open letter to you
Sir Ambedkar
Please guide us
We need you
Like never before.-26.01.2016
Gourab Banerjee Jan 2016
India is my
Motherland
Only democracy on the earth.
United we're
We're one.
We want
Peace.
We don't
War.
Where diversity meets
Unity.
Where abundance meets
Opportunity.
The land of dreams
The land of fairies.
My Motherland
My Pride
I Love my India.-17.01.2016

(Backdrop:-In general,Manager places order but yesterday its was a request(humble).Reason being is;its required for her Sweetheart(Daughter)of 4.6 years for the recitation competition most probably on the Republic Day.So,here we go...)
E Townsend Dec 2015
I feel the loneliest at an airport
because my soulmate could be walking around
searching for me
and light up at the glimpse of my face,
stammering to find a conversation point;

or they are getting on a flight
after hearing my laugh
remembering the sound across the nation.
Celeste Nov 2015
America is beyond blessed
yet we are willing to confess
how there are thousands of soldiers
and other cultures
who have nothing to eat
But we don't realize the way we treat
This rapidly growing problem
A reason why we have fallen
So far away from a place
Of mercy and grace
We continue to argue about those poor people
are we complete fools?
Actually do something
Help others rise from nothing
Instead of bathing in your luxurious ways
begin to pave
what will be the road for a new society
which will start a revolution
Of the ones who find a solution
to the disgusting amount of poverty
Lets not do this moderately
Lets make a difference now
Because true love is how
We can assist
Something we need to not resist
Stop debating who's right or wrong
Because that won't change what's been happening all along
End hunger everywhere
Because were more than capable to share.
Stop thinking of yourself
Start to help.
America is so blessed. I witnessed a debate about if we should help Syrian refugees. People argued their points that we need to help the poor in the U.S first. But who is actually doing something. People have no food. But we "NEED" the newest iPhone and a sports car and super expensive shoes.Lets be the generation to do something.
Celeste Nov 2015
Do you argue your point
To argue for love
Or do you argue
Just because
Do you really care
For every American out there
What are you truly fighting for
Helping the millions poor?
Or are you morphing with society
Doing things unjustifiably
Our hypocritical democracy
A nation full of dishonesty
Soldiers dying left and right
Parents send their kids to school with fright
But all we care about are insignificant things
I’m told, “the ends justify the means”
A country full of hate
Keeping people out because of race
American is so blessed
But most are too obsessed
Many can’t even imagine
How a nation like us can have no compassion
We do not know others lives
For we walk vigilantly in our opportunistic thrive
So forgetful of where we’ve come
For a God whos love cannot be undone
To give back what he gave us
Something we always fail to discuss
We blindly became a nation
Who has no purpose for its creation
Future president, can you do it?
Will you help us get through it?
Maybe you can change it someday
Please. Change us back to who we were yesterday.
A nation without God.
God dips his head beneath the murky surface of war and blood searching for his children.

His children. They cry out to Him, accuse Him, have forgotten Him, need Him.

They are lost in the muck and the filth and the smog of this nation that throws the first stone; and he weeps as He plucks His children up out of the blood and the dirt and sets them down into the tower of Babel where the people shout “There is no room!” and cry out to Him, accuse Him, have forgotten Him.

This nation that shoots first and asks questions later, the nation of “not my problem,” and moving on.

He touches their heads as they fall asleep, he speaks to them and grants them dreams, and they turn away on their beds of lost memories as they struggle not to hear, not to feel… not to feel even the breathing, the heartbeat, of their lover, their partner, their other half as they reach out in their tossing and turning of nightmares of a nation that does not rest.

The nation who binds their hands in the wires of computers and keyboards, the nation that eats the apple and – in the perceived absence of their Father – raise up false books, sing of false stars, rampage, adulterize and falsify amongst each other always looking for the one, the next one, the next one, is this your card, is this your card, is this your card?

But you’ve had your own card, your own self, in your back pocket, you’ve forgotten what it looks like and now you cannot find the match.

They way worn nation that rests, God bless the rest, by swallowing drug after drug after drink after drink, only to find that rest and that peace just in time to feel the **** of the wires on their bound hands drag them back up again.

So they swallow more drugs, and more drinks, and let their minds wander and wish for their family, but when they go home they think of their labor what’s next for they must prepare, they must keep moving ever forward, never looking back.

And so let the frustration grow.

And the family ever fall.

The family, the nation, that drowns beneath the flood of a weeping God who must break His promise, for His children are lost to Him beneath the feet of so many bearing the mark of Cain.

The feet that do not rest. The feet that keep on walking past the empty forests, the old man on the street, the blind woman crying, the sick starving child sitting next to them.

And these people, these poor people, they sit and they wait and they cry out “why,” they cry out “Help”

…For their Father cannot find them in the murky, ****** water that covers this broken nation.
How many references to modern day commonalities can you find?
ZT Oct 2015
Bakit ba
Ganito sa pinas
Kung saan masyado tayong tutok sa tamang landas

Landas na di naman natatahak
Pagkat lahat ng pangako ng mga naging pangulo ay puro palpak

Ano nga ba ang tamang landas
Palagi na lamang itong bukambibig ng mga taong malalaki ang bibig ngunit maliliit at malalamig naman ang mga puso.

Wagas kung makapagsabi ng tamang landas
Kailan ba magwawakas ang pagpapatag sa tamang landas
Tila masyado nang nabigyang importansya ang paghahanda sa tamang landas
Na naaaksya na ang pera ng ating mga probinsya


Ang mga pangakong napako
Ang mga pulitkong napako na sa pagtahak sa landas na ito
Na tila nakakalimutan na nilang isama ang sambayanan sa pagtahak nito
Ang mga mamamayang pilipino na naubusan na ng lakas
Pagkat wala na halos mailagay sa hapagkainan na bigas
Sa walang katapusang pag taas ng tax upang mabuo at mapatag lang ang sinasabing tamang landas

Mga pukitikong
Masyado nang naging overly attached sa tamang landas
Na tila konting lubak lang kuha agad sa kaban ng bayan... Sa pera ng mga mamamayan.. Upang magpagawa ng bagong daan. Mas matuwid na daan. Wow. Gusto nyo ba ng sapak?


Bakit hindi nalang hayaan ang malubak na daan?
Bakit hindi nalang hayaan ang konting baluktot sa daan?

Basta siguraduhin lang natin na tama ang ating pupuntahan.
Na pagdating natin sa ating paroroonan, paglingon natin ay wala na tayong babalikan dahil wala na tayong naiwan.
Magkaroon man ng galos sa paglalakbay, ang sakit ay kayang pawiin ng haplos ng kapwa pilipinong naging kasama mo sa pagtahak ng daan na tnahak ng bawat pilipino.

Ang kailangan namin ay isang pinuno
Hindi pangulo na ituturo lamang ang tamang daan habang nakasakay sa kanyang mamahaling sasakyan at hindi na namamalayan na kanya na palang naiwan ang mga mamamayan.
Ewan ko ba kung bakit ganito sa pinas. Sana sa darating na eleksyon ay makapili na tayo ng isang pinuno hindi lang basta pangulo
Liis Belle Oct 2015
The sky is tinted crimson red
Like the blood of our lost men
One was shot walking down the road
Another was killed for slipping codes
Every night at half past ten

The fragile buildings are crumbling
Like the bones of our lost men
One was blasted into the air like breaths of ash
Another was flattened as the houses crash
The blame is on dutiful artillerymen

The air is choking, hopeless and dead
Like the eyes of our lost men
One fell with a scream on his lips
Another drowned with a sinking ship
Never to see light again

The bombs are loud, and they go fast
Like the hearts of our remaining men
One is trapped under heaps of rubble
Another is injured, and clumsily stumbles
“Lord God, save our souls, amen.”
I just finished reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and it was soooo painful and so good. It was set during World War II, and looks upon the tragedies and consequences of wars. I recommend everyone to read it :)
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