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The Broke Pigeon and the Machiavillian EagleWith the onset of the sun in the horizon, the little creatures awake / And dance and sing melodies tantamount to a group of chortling people / Oh, how i wish such convival sights be captured
@utsav-shah32
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Spiritual ************Pernicious mind, stop eating me! / Incessant head, oh, can’t you sleep? / I’ve moved beyond mental
@ross-robbins22
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In My Youth I Put Aside My StudiesIn my youth I put aside my studies / And I aspired to be a saint. / Living austerely as a mendicant monk,
Taigu Ryokan12
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No Luck Today On My Mendicant RoundsNo luck today on my mendicant rounds; / From village to village I dragged myself. / At sunset I find myself with miles of mountains
Taigu Ryokan8
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The ghosts of chancePreponderant enchantments written / With dawns bereft tears / Of a hircine mendicant
@eleete-j-muir23
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Speak!Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?
William Wordsworth14
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rich man, poor man, beggar man, poet!Paupur poet; / mendicant on our streets, / shaman of words and images;
@k-balachandran4
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a little while ago, in a watering holeI drank deeply / from her dimpled cup, / focussed my mind,
@k-balachandran56
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4,5,6,7,8, Cynics countdownOften the news gives me the blues / I really ought to choose / to simply refuse
@sobroquet30
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the churchthe boy enters when he knows / others will not be there / in prayer--their silent entreaties
@spysgrandson43
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BeggarsBeggars, I am / asking for clarity / inside our life journeys
@star-bg20
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SingI will hold my breath, / Still with anticipation of the day / When children sleep soundly in their cribs,
@jordan-kit12
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Amour Saga Of Longing* / I am writing our Amour saga / Of longing of my heart
@melan-of-innocent53
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The night you remember him!He dances / O his locks of hair / Disheveled in glory
@amit-narayan-satpathy19
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This Is My ChoiceTomorrow lies in a sticky-wet puddle at my feet / And all my yesterdays are growing too heavy / Straining to burst free from the shiny pink membrane
@annie-borisuk57
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Me And ComradeAt some time in past, pacing dispersed deliberated fine, / I met accidentally childhood a mate close to mine; / Yet, he is not mendicant, stiff replete,
@ravindra-kumar24
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The Last SacrificeDragged forth East out of Wales / land of song and tales even then. / The harp cherished more than the sword.
@jeremy-wyatt29
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क़ालीनDusted with gold, colours wheeling, / Threads reaching into a sun, / Precious handwoven rugs from Mumbai,
@therese-mary-weather20
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she came in disguise; invited me to danceShe came to the fare, / disguised as a village girl, / none recognized her,
@k-balachandran28
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Lovers to a shrineI offered my heart to the hands of the world / A mendicant to love’s holy shrine / But my world took a human form
@sheherazad-poetry4
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Gang Rinpochehere / even eagles dare / not enter
@govind-ramakrishnan18
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Who Are You?Who are you / Behind that profile picture / That is not you
@marisa-lu-makil14
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ten n'two past threeten n' two past three, / my mind slips from it's / domesticated fetters,
@betterdays23
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blind freddy speaks....i want to write clever and bright / but everything comes out / mundane and boring
@betterdays34
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Explicitin walking through the corridors of earth & space & time / i felt myself a mendicant of everybody's mind / a step away from decency my *feet* began to ache
@olga-valerevna8
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Claude McKay
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