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"beloveds" poems
I deserve to be happy, But the world is too scrappy; I deserve to be pampered, But people always hammered; I deserve to be loved, But I always lost my beloveds; I deserve a precious friendship, But always got hardship; I deserve more time, As to my destiny I need to climb; I deserve to be heard, But soon as comes a warning word; I deserve a good rest, But I'm lingering like an unloved guest; I deserve to be respected, And that's what I always expected; I deserve to have what I have, As that's only what the world gave; But even that's not in my luck, I'm totally stuck; I deserve to suffer, As I had been a lover.
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
I Deserve
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 5:17 AM UTC
Why Does Mona Lisa Smile?
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 3:07 AM UTC
Why Does Mona Lisa Smile?
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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no one knows pain like the ones who curse their beloveds and bleed their heart dry like the ones who watch blood bubble up from wounds self-made the ones who fill themselves up just to empty it all in a bathroom stall the ones who refuse their meals and live for the scale because numbers don't leave the crying poet the bleeding cutter the vomiting bulimic the starving anorexic the lost the empty the lonely the unloved the ones who love too much and not enough no one knows pain like humans know pain
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Nov 20, 2012
Nov 20, 2012 at 5:58 AM UTC
No One Knows Pain Like
crazy idea, silly notion, then again, come back, circle around, why not, you ask yourself now prior to posting hereon, every word with extra care reviewed sharing, checking in with my beloveds, here, those gone/disappeared telling myself telling anyone, talking to you letting you know my grace, your grace, one and the same, my face, your face, my child, my son know you're checking in, checking out, the comings, the goings, knowing full and well, I see you, my face, your face everywhere and everyday our conversation never ending, look for me here, at the intersection of memory and what's up, you see my messages, responding in a thousand different ways, our dialogue unending, formally organized Face to Facebook, your face, my Facebook my child, my son
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 6:34 AM UTC
Checking Facebook From Heaven
SOULFUL IMAGINATION On a journey of imagination, The wind sought an explanation Of that loving nature We cannot measure. Pray tell me now, How good is your heart, Filled with your beloveds' love ? “Pacific, is my heart indeed!!” Are the words I did utter. Above the whispering reeds Supporting the cloudy kites It did impose further..... What is love? © Perveiz Ali
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Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 12:41 AM UTC
Soulful Imagination I
The cycle of time never stops, That has never forgiven anyone, Moves fast, slow and sometimes hops, None can claim from it to be won, The kings or beggar it behaves the same, Justice, its essence and time its name. O, the king lying with the queen, Thou's given a figure to the love, The lovers and beloveds are keen, To visit the Taj as pilgrim of love. Thousands of the people visit at a time, To pay tribute a to building of ever prime, Ah! The mosque is empty but I hear, Silent prayer calls in surrounding of thine, People are surrounding thee far and near, They look happy but sad is the heart of mine, O Yamuna! Beside thee one is seeing another age, But time is the obstacle to show its visage.
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Jan 9, 2011
Jan 9, 2011 at 4:56 AM UTC
A VISIT TO THE TAJ
To all my beloveds, Why are you in such a rush? Where do you think you have to go? Why do you live as though in a race? Don’t rush. You won’t win. There is no winning. There is nothing after that end. Where do you even have to go? I’m the one who has to go… And I will go, Slow. Before I meet that end, Please, Take my hand. Waltz with me into that windy night, Not with haste, But with the remains, Of this grotesque grace. Let the wind howl. Let it push. Let it beg us to hurry on our way. Let it do as it may, But I will not rush to that end, Under anyone’s command. Just, Go slow. I will, Go slow. Drag your feet through the dusk. Let the moonlight kiss the path, Though it can never again light the way. There is no destination. Only this journey. Only this ache. Only this love. I will, Go slow. Slow enough, To cry. For these tears are worthy of my time. For they are true to my heart. I will, Go slow. As I cry this truth, I won’t rush to lie to you. I won’t sprint toward bliss, For there is none at the end. I will waltz slowly through this pain. Because I want to feel this love. Because I crave every burden, Of this human heart. Go slow, As you read the story. Go slow, As you listen to the song. Go slow, As you live this life. Don’t race through beauty, Just to meet nothing. Don’t race through pain, Just to meet that eternity. That, Distant Icky Eternity. Go slow, With companions, or alone. Go slow, Until the world lets go. Let it hurt. Let me cry. Slowly, I love. Slowly, I cling. Slowly, I’m dragged away. Slowly, I fade… Into, Into, That, Into, Oblivion… Go… Slow. Slower. Slower still. Almost, Imperceptibly. As, You, Approach, That, That, That, Distant Icky Eternity Go, Go, Go, Slow. And if I must, If I must say goodbye, If this is the end of our time, Then let me, Let me smile, As I go, As I go slowly, Dreaming, That I am hand in hand, With such kind company. Waltzing slowly, Until I, Must let go, Until you, Until you must, Move on, Until I smile, One last time, As you must carry on, Until I, Until I succumb, To that, To, That, That, That, Distant Icky Eternity. Sincerely, Your companion From genesis, through oblivion
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Sep 3, 2025
Sep 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM UTC
Go, Slow
To all my beloveds, Why are you in such a rush? Where do you think you have to go? Why do you live as though in a race? Don’t rush. You won’t win. There is no winning. There is nothing after that end. Where do you even have to go? I’m the one who has to go… And I will go, Slow. Before I meet that end, Please, Take my hand. Waltz with me into that windy night, Not with haste, But with the remains, Of this grotesque grace. Let the wind howl. Let it push. Let it beg us to hurry on our way. Let it do as it may, But I will not rush to that end, Under anyone’s command. Just, Go slow. I will, Go slow. Drag your feet through the dusk. Let the moonlight kiss the path, Though it can never again light the way. There is no destination. Only this journey. Only this ache. Only this love. I will, Go slow. Slow enough, To cry. For these tears are worthy of my time. For they are true to my heart. I will, Go slow. As I cry this truth, I won’t rush to lie to you. I won’t sprint toward bliss, For there is none at the end. I will waltz slowly through this pain. Because I want to feel this love. Because I crave every burden, Of this human heart. Go slow, As you read the story. Go slow, As you listen to the song. Go slow, As you live this life. Don’t race through beauty, Just to meet nothing. Don’t race through pain, Just to meet that eternity. That, Distant Icky Eternity. Go slow, With companions, or alone. Go slow, Until the world lets go. Let it hurt. Let me cry. Slowly, I love. Slowly, I cling. Slowly, I’m dragged away. Slowly, I fade… Into, Into, That, Into, Oblivion… Go… Slow. Slower. Slower still. Almost, Imperceptibly. As, You, Approach, That, That, That, Distant Icky Eternity Go, Go, Go, Slow. And if I must, If I must say goodbye, If this is the end of our time, Then let me, Let me smile, As I go, As I go slowly, Dreaming, That I am hand in hand, With such kind company. Waltzing slowly, Until I, Must let go, Until you, Until you must, Move on, Until I smile, One last time, As you must carry on, Until I, Until I succumb, To that, To, That, That, That, Distant Icky Eternity. Sincerely, Your companion From genesis, through oblivion
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A sudden flash, lightning's cuneiform write, on  the plack of pitch dark sky; like a truth derived from lives * Sudden  insights, in human nature strike unawares, if you look around, some times even casual look reveals. * Likes and dislikes drive human lives, and civilizations thrives or bite dust, on their merit, they are like leaves sprouting on a plant an act, result of the land it stands and nutrients it receives, what complex laws work behind it! how would you capture the essence of this? --meaning is elusive even if you peel the onion, for long, human nature defies all descernable patterns. * Pharova Khufu of Egypt, wallowing in riches, all his life (in the stories of past) was in love with his two boats, more than any other thing, (one made of acecea and other from cider) king, aimed  his longing's sharp point at this two wooden objects, (a guy who had no problem in focusing bless him, he deserves credit for that one decisiveness) * And when he died, they thought these boats were the things he would miss more than his wives, what else could be possible? they carefully laid to rest with him,  these two beloveds- Khufu with two lovely boats; his love objects, his wish was honored * **Imagine a man of immense wealth which eventually reduced to  some wood, the size of two boats, (the symbol of futility human life represents,) trveling the great beyond, with his legs, one each on a boat.**                 *
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Mar 3, 2012
Mar 3, 2012 at 12:05 AM UTC
What Pharova Khufu's boats suggest to us.
I cling to him, Mascara stains his shirt Like ink blotches on a left wrist. Oh, how deeply, deeply Sweetly – Completely I feel this pain Burrowed in the most hidden corner of my soul Patched like cancer on the walls of my lungs And Oh, how deeply, deeply Sweetly – Complete and utterly Did we weep and wail through the darkness of that night Tears cried by dull-ember fireside This hurts more than we ever thought it could Crocodile eyes ooze wet and hot Figures entangle themselves in desperation Words are few yet heart-wrenching The strongest among us are bulldozed into flat implacability Sorrow inhabits the cracks in my soul Like chalk smeared across concrete. Weep dear children, Not ready to grow up Weep dear friends, For the depth of your love Weep dear graduates When morning comes you’ll have to leave Weep for this country, that stained you and changed you Weep for the institution, that burned you and bettered you Weep for the people, who loved and supported you Weep for your childhood, that carried you from birth to here Weep, sweet alumni for all that you’re losing For all the departure For all the uncertainty For all the promises that will be broken And friendships that will not be kept up Weep over the map And curse the dividing waters Weep my beloveds, Deny yourselves no tears Weep deeply Weep deeply Weep sweetly Weep completely Weep utterly and totally and whole-heartedly Weep because this matters more than anything ever has Weep because this has been the most beautiful and devine gift Weep because you’ve been pierced to the core, Debilitated by the most far-reaching love imaginable And weep because The world is expansive, The oceans are deep and the lands are wide The people are numerous and the cultures are diverse The opportunities are endless The combinations are infinite Your life is long And your future is full of immense possibility But you will never have this again, So weep.
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Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014 at 8:10 AM UTC
Song of the Broken-Hearted Graduates
I cling to him, Mascara stains his shirt Like ink blotches on a left wrist. Oh, how deeply, deeply Sweetly – Completely I feel this pain Burrowed in the most hidden corner of my soul Patched like cancer on the walls of my lungs And Oh, how deeply, deeply Sweetly – Complete and utterly Did we weep and wail through the darkness of that night Tears cried by dull-ember fireside This hurts more than we ever thought it could Crocodile eyes ooze wet and hot Figures entangle themselves in desperation Words are few yet heart-wrenching The strongest among us are bulldozed into flat implacability Sorrow inhabits the cracks in my soul Like chalk smeared across concrete. Weep dear children, Not ready to grow up Weep dear friends, For the depth of your love Weep dear graduates When morning comes you’ll have to leave Weep for this country, that stained you and changed you Weep for the institution, that burned you and bettered you Weep for the people, who loved and supported you Weep for your childhood, that carried you from birth to here Weep, sweet alumni for all that you’re losing For all the departure For all the uncertainty For all the promises that will be broken And friendships that will not be kept up Weep over the map And curse the dividing waters Weep my beloveds, Deny yourselves no tears Weep deeply Weep deeply Weep sweetly Weep completely Weep utterly and totally and whole-heartedly Weep because this matters more than anything ever has Weep because this has been the most beautiful and devine gift Weep because you’ve been pierced to the core, Debilitated by the most far-reaching love imaginable And weep because The world is expansive, The oceans are deep and the lands are wide The people are numerous and the cultures are diverse The opportunities are endless The combinations are infinite Your life is long And your future is full of immense possibility But you will never have this again, So weep.
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Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace Sing our songs among the stars and and walk our dances across the face of the moon In the instant we learn that Michael is gone we know nothing No clocks can tell our time and no oceans can rush our tides With the abrupt absence of our treasure Though we our many, each of us is achingly alone Piercingly alone Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him He came to us from the Creator, trailing creativity in abundance Despite the anguish of life he was sheathed in mother love and family love and survived and did more than that He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style We had him Whether we knew who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his We had him Beautiful, delighting our eyes He raked his hat slant over his brow and took a pose on his toes for all of us and we laughed and stomped our feet for him We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing He gave us all he had been given Today in Tokyo, beneath the Eiffel Tower, in Ghana's Blackstar Square, in Johannesburg, in Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Alabama and Birmingham England, we are missing Michael Jackson But we do know that we had him And we are the world.
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Jan 6, 2010
Jan 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM UTC
We Had Him - Maya Angelou
bare it straight... the knight-fool referenced here, me, scrabbled, scrambled writer, moat-surround builder, petard hole-blower in walls of captivity. letting those inside out, letting those outside in... all the beloveds from ailments hurtful, in and ex ternality fearful of eternality guise of knight errant, salve and solve, two pocket protectors, needy, downtrodden, love-hurting, slip inside and hide till ready to come out on acceptable terms entrapped, locked down and in, show me the walls for to break, make the solitary unobligatory hands holding you will lead us, all writ on clean new chance foolscap open sourced coded for sharing knock knock knock come calling, my calling... to come...
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 12:53 PM UTC
the pocket protector, knight errant, foolscap armed
lurking in every place that others, who also  pose as poets, lurk in--disguised as human beings--rather ineffectively. Not even as good at deception as terrorists do but they do manage easily to deceive themselves.. Writing in simplistic rhymes,their inexperienced and shallow observations, that are made with the blindfold of truth over their eyes. Pretententious juvenile and middle aged posturers, that write excretable  prose about their shallow juvenile longings, to possess another completely,and always call it " love poetry". Begging for a mummy or daddy figure to "love" them, and thereby give their miserable existences value and validation,energy-sucks one and all . Crying out in immature and verbally comatose stanzas, insisting that they are not to blame, not me guv!--never met him before!, can I hand you another nail?.. Still afraid of the "roaming soldiers" in our midst, the paramilitaries of the Oligarchies that rule everywhere. On their knees beseeching the one they met momentarily, and who has walked away from them, heaving with laughter at their chauvinism and sexism and lack of integrity and lack of truthfulness. Begging their various "gods" and "goddesses"to return to their grasping and possessive conditional love the *** object that rfejects them.. "Poets"(very few of them here and I am not a "poet") expose these thieves of others integrity and truthfulness,to the ridicule they deserve, for trying to twist the shining shimmering slender thread of unconditional love into a for life shackle of the conditional attachment that they call love . Whether they be Heterosexual or Homosexual/Lesbian or Bisexual is if no account to these testosterone  fuelled inhabitants of the ****** free zone. "Be all mine" they cry out piteously. "You cant leave me like this" they cry unceasingly as if some fictional "god"or "goddess" will fasten the shackle around the "beloveds" ankle. What a lot of horse **** to dip your quill into.
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 1:07 AM UTC
There are a lot of pretentious poseurs
lurking in every place that others, who also  pose as poets, lurk in--disguised as human beings--rather ineffectively. Not even as good at deception as terrorists do but they do manage easily to deceive themselves.. Writing in simplistic rhymes,their inexperienced and shallow observations, that are made with the blindfold of truth over their eyes. Pretententious juvenile and middle aged posturers, that write excretable  prose about their shallow juvenile longings, to possess another completely,and always call it " love poetry". Begging for a mummy or daddy figure to "love" them, and thereby give their miserable existences value and validation,energy-sucks one and all . Crying out in immature and verbally comatose stanzas, insisting that they are not to blame, not me guv!--never met him before!, can I hand you another nail?.. Still afraid of the "roaming soldiers" in our midst, the paramilitaries of the Oligarchies that rule everywhere. On their knees beseeching the one they met momentarily, and who has walked away from them, heaving with laughter at their chauvinism and sexism and lack of integrity and lack of truthfulness. Begging their various "gods" and "goddesses"to return to their grasping and possessive conditional love the *** object that rfejects them.. "Poets"(very few of them here and I am not a "poet") expose these thieves of others integrity and truthfulness,to the ridicule they deserve, for trying to twist the shining shimmering slender thread of unconditional love into a for life shackle of the conditional attachment that they call love . Whether they be Heterosexual or Homosexual/Lesbian or Bisexual is if no account to these testosterone  fuelled inhabitants of the ****** free zone. "Be all mine" they cry out piteously. "You cant leave me like this" they cry unceasingly as if some fictional "god"or "goddess" will fasten the shackle around the "beloveds" ankle. What a lot of horse **** to dip your quill into.
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this thing we choose to call beautiful he takes his time and stirs up still things hidden inside      to exhaust the mind then settles down and infests, but come o beloveds of darkness and decay for day     is near
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Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 12:18 PM UTC
still things
come to me, my beloveds with long nails and squinting eyes, spare neither claw or hook, delve and devolve, critique and solve the words of this prophet scribbled on plastic bus seats give me my due, my comeuppance, my downfalls will me to be better or worse if that be betterment so eagerly will embrace, grasp, insert your benailing fingers, soften, grasp, repoint thy claws taking thy earnest joy at pain inflicted as my own as long as you dare just say something! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A bus poem in honor of my invitation   my digital birthing April 8th, 2015
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM UTC
Consider these words, an invitational tournament
While walking in the city throughout days, I'm only daydreaming about tonight, And thinking about that luminous face Who I so eagerly want to speak and write When the bright sunlight gets concealed, When the night comes out the day, When city lights become revealed And when thoughts that she's distant go away. After living my life in the daytime, My beloveds face is finally seen! In the late hours of the dim nighttime, On my gleaming and lovely computer screen. I know that it is a digital love, But surely, it is a beautiful love.
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 2:21 PM UTC
Computer Love
nearing midpoint and looking twice backwards - once ahead leaning ever so - modestly bent forward in keeping with a past and future futile balanced, sad bent with weight of passé tragedy, to leaning forward with speaking eagerness a future anticipated, dearly beloveds, trundle to and from thee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ burdened and yet unbundled, eyes in the head back and front who is pushing this carriage? old love stories well recalled, new love poems unwritten I roll along, slow trundle the human condition - love failures only make you more needy wanting to run faster away and towards love poems
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 11:33 AM UTC
Trundle (love poems rolling along)
Stricken with, like fate. Idolizing. Idealizing. What makes it so? Curiosity to obsession. Obsession to love? What is love? Sought after, like gold. Idolizing me. Yet none to succeed but for a fleeting moment. I envy those with their beloveds. Even those whom have suffered loss, but still love. Emptiness. Craving the “good” feelings. Like fantasies. Wanting someone who isn’t real. Never to give wounds time to heal. To invalidate, or embrace? If I don’t know what is real And if I don’t know who I am, Do I follow my heart? Or is naivety my wander? What I seek is never mine to keep. All stories are read, not written. Not written by me.
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
Why can’t I love?
All who strive and struggle All who love too deeply The souls whose heart mourns for others The ones who feel the pain of empathic compassion Empty your selves atop of me Give unto me your hate Tear the sorrow from your core and be free For I will consume I will fester and writhe For hate I loathe and into the abyss I dive Into the cryo-depth of darkness Through the teeth of winter Swallowed by war and hatred For in the icy maw, hope thrives Frozen inside his core Fenrir engulfs the sun Frigid I wait, rigid I stand Fires of hate, Bless my son And with the force of a thousand flames The cries of a million strong The spear that ended kingdoms come ****** the point of my demise Belly splitting the beast howls Birthed I am with the blood of passion The light is once again released Forged from the ice and compassion Find joy my beloveds Find happiness Breathe your love onto me For I am defeated Valhalla, hear me now! I am afraid to fall into the abyss Guide me to the rainbow bridge and I will lay my body beside the gate
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 12:23 PM UTC
Black Hole Messiah
quite frankly you've put me to shame - and not for the reasons you think. my beloveds: it's your hatred. i sat in on one of your congregations. i heard the words you put in my mouth and i smiled, sadly, at your empty trying. i heard about that man who performed what you call miracles, and i heard the words you put in his mouth and i laughed, genuinely, at how much store you put in a little age-old gossip. but then i heard the whisperings: and i have to ask you. all this behaving as if you know me, and dancing around with me in your hearts, and you think i care, you think i care about those two women who love each other? those two men with their beautiful children? those millions of others? you think i didn't make them that way - special, free, and just the same as you? you think you earn my favor, accusing and oppressing your brothers, your sisters? you think i smile on your closed minds? you bring shame on yourselves. my ad-libbed wrath, i can laugh at that, and that man from galilee, i can smile at your childish clinging. but i didn't make you with hatred. i didn't make you to see differences as anything but a celebration. if someone had told me this is what would take shape, in my name, i would have pointed at you hateful few, and i would have said, god forbid (and i do) that you spread this poison.
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Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM UTC
a letter from god
What Happened to Them? by Nasir Kazmi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Those who came ashore, what happened to them? Those who sailed away, what happened to them? Those who were coming at dawn, when dawn never arrived ... Those caravans en route, what happened to them? Those I awaited each night on moonless paths, Who were meant to light beacons, what happened to them? Who are these strangers surrounding me now? All my lost friends and allies, what happened to them? Those who built these blazing buildings, what happened to them? Those who were meant to uplift us, what happened to them? NOTE: This poignant poem was written about the 1947 partition of India into two nations: India and Pakistan. I take the following poem to be about the aftermath of the division. Climate Change by Nasir Kazmi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The songs of our silenced lips are different. The expressions of our regretful hearts are different. In milder climes our grief was more tolerable, But the burdens we bear today are different. O, walkers of awareness's road, keep your watch! The obstacles strewn on this stony path are different. We neither fear separation, nor desire union; The anxieties of my rebellious heart are different. In the first leaf-fall only flowers fluttered from twigs; This year the omens of autumn are different. This world lacks the depth to understand my heartache; Please endow me with melodies, for my cry is different! One disconcerting glance bared my being; Now in barren fields my visions are different. No more troops, nor flags. Neither money, nor fame. The marks of the monarchs on this land are different. Men are not martyred for their beloveds these days. The youths of my youth were so very different! Nasir Kazmi Couplets When I was a child learning to write my first scribblings were your name. ―Nasir Kazmi, translation by Michael R. Burch When my feet lost the path where was your hand? ―Nasir Kazmi, translation by Michael R. Burch Everything I found is yours; everything I lost is also yours. ―Nasir Kazmi, translation by Michael R. Burch Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi (1925-1972) was a renowned Urdu poet and playwright. His poetry continues to be used in Pakistan Television (PTV) shows and in Indian Bollywood films. Keywords/Tags: Nazir Kazmi, Urdu, translation, ghazal, couplet, love, pain, grief, melancholy, mrburdu
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May 7, 2020
May 7, 2020 at 2:09 AM UTC
Nazir Kazmi translations
What Happened to Them? by Nasir Kazmi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Those who came ashore, what happened to them? Those who sailed away, what happened to them? Those who were coming at dawn, when dawn never arrived ... Those caravans en route, what happened to them? Those I awaited each night on moonless paths, Who were meant to light beacons, what happened to them? Who are these strangers surrounding me now? All my lost friends and allies, what happened to them? Those who built these blazing buildings, what happened to them? Those who were meant to uplift us, what happened to them? NOTE: This poignant poem was written about the 1947 partition of India into two nations: India and Pakistan. I take the following poem to be about the aftermath of the division. Climate Change by Nasir Kazmi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The songs of our silenced lips are different. The expressions of our regretful hearts are different. In milder climes our grief was more tolerable, But the burdens we bear today are different. O, walkers of awareness's road, keep your watch! The obstacles strewn on this stony path are different. We neither fear separation, nor desire union; The anxieties of my rebellious heart are different. In the first leaf-fall only flowers fluttered from twigs; This year the omens of autumn are different. This world lacks the depth to understand my heartache; Please endow me with melodies, for my cry is different! One disconcerting glance bared my being; Now in barren fields my visions are different. No more troops, nor flags. Neither money, nor fame. The marks of the monarchs on this land are different. Men are not martyred for their beloveds these days. The youths of my youth were so very different! Nasir Kazmi Couplets When I was a child learning to write my first scribblings were your name. ―Nasir Kazmi, translation by Michael R. Burch When my feet lost the path where was your hand? ―Nasir Kazmi, translation by Michael R. Burch Everything I found is yours; everything I lost is also yours. ―Nasir Kazmi, translation by Michael R. Burch Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi (1925-1972) was a renowned Urdu poet and playwright. His poetry continues to be used in Pakistan Television (PTV) shows and in Indian Bollywood films. Keywords/Tags: Nazir Kazmi, Urdu, translation, ghazal, couplet, love, pain, grief, melancholy, mrburdu
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Pondering rain, drops of new, and pats of old. Contented sighs exude from my heart as light scatters in colors through the broken clouds, the whole world resides in that one rainbow... The earth in its entirety sinks into the darkness, sweet hues fade into a deep freckled purple; asleep is the innocent; wide awake is the curious explorers in love. A nighttime symphony awards an applaud from the beats of the racing hearts; alive and united. A moment fully experienced, God's grace flows in the form of wind, the warming breeze lightly caresses the skins of bare, quietly blessing His children to eternity, Forever in awe with one another. The sun boldly makes its arrival, slowly spitting fire into the beloveds below. Somehow, joy finds its way, intertwined within the arising glowing daytime - even in the crashing water; a mesh of beauty is always present. In the arms of security, love, warmth, and bliss, one finds earthly manifestations of His dream; one embraces the energy of His life. Contented sighs exude from my heart with truth and beauty. For my surroundings sit modestly within me... The universe holds energy infinitely; the soul holds the universe in its entirety: eternal and infinite is both as a pair Like day and night, like sunshine and rainfall, like you and I.
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Dec 13, 2010
Dec 13, 2010 at 5:41 PM UTC
A Pair.
If there was a song in this world so melodious So sweet So beautiful That it was the anthem of lovers Of sweethearts Of beloveds And I sang it to you so tenderly So vibrantly So lovingly Would you love me back so truly So unconditionally So faithfully Just as I do to you, my love, so wonderful So fantastical So undeniable And would you so graciously So honestly So astonishingly Accept me into your arms so humbly So loyally So admirably As you are the only one so dear So adored So cherished And as I would lay in your arms of warmth Of gentleness Of love I would sing that song of romance Of care Of devotion Because our love would be so boundless So limitless So Marvelous So, would you care for a song my love?
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Dec 24, 2015
Dec 24, 2015 at 12:18 PM UTC
The Song Of Lovers