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After getting so close to you and also getting to close to loosing you forever, I decided to redefine importance. While I was redefining importance, I got to understand how far friendship can stretch. After that, I came to a conclusion that friendship is a lot more greater than love. Below I'm going to give some emphasis which I hope will make you understand. LOVE Greedy: You get so absorbed in the moments you share with this person, you never want anyone else to share them, cause you're afraid his or her attention would be taken away from you. FRIENDSHIP Sharing: You understand that one of the basic principle in life is sharing, so even if you have breath taking moments, you allow others experience it as well cause you're sure friendship is enough to go round. LOVE Has a limit: When people are in "In Love", if it's not meant to be, it eventually ends and this people turn from lovers to strangers. Then start referring to each other with past tense. FRIENDSHIP Knows no limit: When you are friends with a person, in all honesty there's no such thing as the end. Even if circumstances takes you far away, you see no point in becoming strangers. You just kick start where you left off, and in no time catching up is done. No heart breaks. No past tense. LOVE Heartbreak: Because we only want our partners to ourself, or cause we feel like we've attained a certain point in love, then we have the right to be in the know of every situation going on in the other persons mind. Hence the heart break when a mistake is made. FRIENDSHIP Forgiveness: Because we don't wanna lose what we have, and we understand that we are human who have strengths and weaknesses, when a friend offends, we forgive, we don't see it as the end of the road cause in friendship, we understand forgiveness is a basic principle. LOVE No boundaries: Love makes us think we are on soul, you are me, I am you, there should be nothing between us and these prompts us to be all up in each other's faces, never having  alone times, never doing what we enjoy even if our partners don't like it. Love doesn't give room for secret hide outs. There's always crossing the boundary. FRIENDSHIP Boundaries: Friendship understands that we have our individual differences. Friendship knows when you to give you time to sulk, cause you need to heal. Friendship knows how to allow you enjoy your stupid snack even if the other friend doesn't like it. Friendship doesn't make you feel bad for having an opinion, instead it makes fun of it and you all laugh. Friendship understands signs and friendship will always come back for you even if you have a big head. LOVE Jealous: Love gets jealous and causes heart break. FRIENDSHIP Doesn't give a **** Friendship enjoys the moment with you and no one sees the point to be jealous. Friendship is not common, but love is everywhere. When you find a friend, keep him or her cause if it slips off your hands, you might never get it back. Love can be amazing if you have the attributes of a good friend. You hardly find a two in one package. If you do, **** You're lucky. If you don't, always remember FRIENDSHIP CAN BE SHARED
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Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017 at 4:03 PM UTC
FRIENDSHIP OVER LOVE
After getting so close to you and also getting to close to loosing you forever, I decided to redefine importance. While I was redefining importance, I got to understand how far friendship can stretch. After that, I came to a conclusion that friendship is a lot more greater than love. Below I'm going to give some emphasis which I hope will make you understand. LOVE Greedy: You get so absorbed in the moments you share with this person, you never want anyone else to share them, cause you're afraid his or her attention would be taken away from you. FRIENDSHIP Sharing: You understand that one of the basic principle in life is sharing, so even if you have breath taking moments, you allow others experience it as well cause you're sure friendship is enough to go round. LOVE Has a limit: When people are in "In Love", if it's not meant to be, it eventually ends and this people turn from lovers to strangers. Then start referring to each other with past tense. FRIENDSHIP Knows no limit: When you are friends with a person, in all honesty there's no such thing as the end. Even if circumstances takes you far away, you see no point in becoming strangers. You just kick start where you left off, and in no time catching up is done. No heart breaks. No past tense. LOVE Heartbreak: Because we only want our partners to ourself, or cause we feel like we've attained a certain point in love, then we have the right to be in the know of every situation going on in the other persons mind. Hence the heart break when a mistake is made. FRIENDSHIP Forgiveness: Because we don't wanna lose what we have, and we understand that we are human who have strengths and weaknesses, when a friend offends, we forgive, we don't see it as the end of the road cause in friendship, we understand forgiveness is a basic principle. LOVE No boundaries: Love makes us think we are on soul, you are me, I am you, there should be nothing between us and these prompts us to be all up in each other's faces, never having  alone times, never doing what we enjoy even if our partners don't like it. Love doesn't give room for secret hide outs. There's always crossing the boundary. FRIENDSHIP Boundaries: Friendship understands that we have our individual differences. Friendship knows when you to give you time to sulk, cause you need to heal. Friendship knows how to allow you enjoy your stupid snack even if the other friend doesn't like it. Friendship doesn't make you feel bad for having an opinion, instead it makes fun of it and you all laugh. Friendship understands signs and friendship will always come back for you even if you have a big head. LOVE Jealous: Love gets jealous and causes heart break. FRIENDSHIP Doesn't give a **** Friendship enjoys the moment with you and no one sees the point to be jealous. Friendship is not common, but love is everywhere. When you find a friend, keep him or her cause if it slips off your hands, you might never get it back. Love can be amazing if you have the attributes of a good friend. You hardly find a two in one package. If you do, **** You're lucky. If you don't, always remember FRIENDSHIP CAN BE SHARED
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I fall in love with everyone, I'm falling hard for you. You aren't something easily found, you're rare, and real, it's true. You've traveled such a rugged path, but through the trials you grew. This isn't all just simple math, it's souls and spirits too. The future holds what you can't grasp, but you can see it through.  And when I place it on a graph, it all adds up to you. Scatter plot the present and past, you'll end up with the new. But isn't music, secretly math, that follows certain que's? No! Music represents our love, for all that may ensue. It's symbolic of our emotion, either happy or blue. It's what I feel, that prompts my life, with what I need to do. The sounds i hear, release my fear, and in my heart imbue. A fire, I could never start, without some help from you.
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May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 11:12 PM UTC
Inspired Fire
Thoughts We think them We feel them We share them We write them We visualize them But what prompts us to think of a thought? Are thoughts created? Or were they already there from the start?
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 3:43 AM UTC
Thoughts We Think We Thought
Rules: 1.You have to write a poem on the given prompt for each day [in the given order] and then share it with fellow challenge takers (optional but recommended) by posting what you wrote in your blog or on Facebook or wherever. To make sharing and tracking easier, you can use this hashtag: ‪#‎eleven11poetrychallenge‬ 2. The poem can be of any length and the prompt can be interpreted anyway you want. Poems can be written in English or Nepali. 3. The whole idea is to write, share, grow and have fun! So if you are cool with it, check this space for daily prompt. Prompts: Day one: A poem from the perspective of an inanimate object Day two: A poem in the format of a conversation Day three: Write a poem that tells a story (with a beginning, middle, end..but not necessarily in that order), which is completely imaginary or is not based on a reality that YOU know of. Day four: A wishlist, with 11 of your wishes. Day five: Write a Haiku. Or two. Day six: Let's talk about *** baby! [Write a poem about *** (not *** and gender, 'sex' if we are unclear.] Day seven: Only sixteen--a poem about the person you were when you were sixteen [or about the person you want to be, if you are not yet 16] Day eight: A poem describing a photograph or painting. Day nine: Write a letter to your murderer. Day ten: A poem about your worst nightmare. Day Eleven: Write a poem about yourself, in Nepali. IF you already write in Nepali, that is great. If you don't, then this prompt s your chance
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 6:40 AM UTC
About Eleven 11 Poetry Challenge (Info)
Rules: 1.You have to write a poem on the given prompt for each day [in the given order] and then share it with fellow challenge takers (optional but recommended) by posting what you wrote in your blog or on Facebook or wherever. To make sharing and tracking easier, you can use this hashtag: ‪#‎eleven11poetrychallenge‬ 2. The poem can be of any length and the prompt can be interpreted anyway you want. Poems can be written in English or Nepali. 3. The whole idea is to write, share, grow and have fun! So if you are cool with it, check this space for daily prompt. Prompts: Day one: A poem from the perspective of an inanimate object Day two: A poem in the format of a conversation Day three: Write a poem that tells a story (with a beginning, middle, end..but not necessarily in that order), which is completely imaginary or is not based on a reality that YOU know of. Day four: A wishlist, with 11 of your wishes. Day five: Write a Haiku. Or two. Day six: Let's talk about *** baby! [Write a poem about *** (not *** and gender, 'sex' if we are unclear.] Day seven: Only sixteen--a poem about the person you were when you were sixteen [or about the person you want to be, if you are not yet 16] Day eight: A poem describing a photograph or painting. Day nine: Write a letter to your murderer. Day ten: A poem about your worst nightmare. Day Eleven: Write a poem about yourself, in Nepali. IF you already write in Nepali, that is great. If you don't, then this prompt s your chance
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What if they had a War and nobody came ! my sentiment all along Actions so transparent and telegraphed a mile long absurd anchoring, even more absurd triggering so absurd as to be meaningless the hotchpotch logic of simpletons on acid The banal manifestations of the anodyne retards with advanced hysteria Think unruly kids on Colombian marching powder think advanced psychosis with total stage ten delusions Watch mass hysteria contagion Logic was never there, rationality bolted beating Usain Bolt Inveterate liars and fantasists now control maddened throngs Oh dear! they decided I am madly in love with acquaintance neither I or poor acquaintance know this But let not the truth get in the way of a soap opera by the insanes After All meaningless triggers and Delusionary prompts keep the sheeples busy in People's Power utopia They are all having a war, nobody has told me about it I don't understand their language yet they are very eloquent Deep in their imagined Neuro-linguistic Programming or mental pygmies playing Pavlov Dog theory of the semi-illiterates   I just realized why cancer is prevalent amongst them They carry so much poison and emotional ******* in their beings It pollutes and eat away at them internally, they get cancer! Never have been interested in little minds and liars and thieves Have little time for dumb people, the toxics and the sheeples What makes cretins think I take anything of theirs to mind what can I learn or gain from contemptibles I don't feel inferior so why would I want to learn how to slander and defame others to bring them down 'Slander is the GREAT LEVELLER voiced one of them poor inadequate soul, poor pathetic degenerate I look twenty years younger than my years, no wrinkles Just slightly greying, mind as sharp as razor Because I don't carry acidic ******* hate or foul nonsense in my head, Because my mind is full of worthy knowledge because I am not an ignoramus with attitude because I am not a shameless coward or an empty headed nonentity Because I am not amongst the madding crowd I am not an insignificant pointless HATER with cancer in waiting! I am NOT a SHAMELESS RACIST white THIEF discrediting the Victim I STOLE from OR an OBNOXIOUS gang of SOCIALIST crazed subhumans cancerized by jealousy and envy
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 4:47 PM UTC
Advance C. Macafartty Soldiers
What if they had a War and nobody came ! my sentiment all along Actions so transparent and telegraphed a mile long absurd anchoring, even more absurd triggering so absurd as to be meaningless the hotchpotch logic of simpletons on acid The banal manifestations of the anodyne retards with advanced hysteria Think unruly kids on Colombian marching powder think advanced psychosis with total stage ten delusions Watch mass hysteria contagion Logic was never there, rationality bolted beating Usain Bolt Inveterate liars and fantasists now control maddened throngs Oh dear! they decided I am madly in love with acquaintance neither I or poor acquaintance know this But let not the truth get in the way of a soap opera by the insanes After All meaningless triggers and Delusionary prompts keep the sheeples busy in People's Power utopia They are all having a war, nobody has told me about it I don't understand their language yet they are very eloquent Deep in their imagined Neuro-linguistic Programming or mental pygmies playing Pavlov Dog theory of the semi-illiterates   I just realized why cancer is prevalent amongst them They carry so much poison and emotional ******* in their beings It pollutes and eat away at them internally, they get cancer! Never have been interested in little minds and liars and thieves Have little time for dumb people, the toxics and the sheeples What makes cretins think I take anything of theirs to mind what can I learn or gain from contemptibles I don't feel inferior so why would I want to learn how to slander and defame others to bring them down 'Slander is the GREAT LEVELLER voiced one of them poor inadequate soul, poor pathetic degenerate I look twenty years younger than my years, no wrinkles Just slightly greying, mind as sharp as razor Because I don't carry acidic ******* hate or foul nonsense in my head, Because my mind is full of worthy knowledge because I am not an ignoramus with attitude because I am not a shameless coward or an empty headed nonentity Because I am not amongst the madding crowd I am not an insignificant pointless HATER with cancer in waiting! I am NOT a SHAMELESS RACIST white THIEF discrediting the Victim I STOLE from OR an OBNOXIOUS gang of SOCIALIST crazed subhumans cancerized by jealousy and envy
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every year grandpa tells the same story over and over like he's saying it for the first time he loves walking in his own puddles it would be at the dinner table during Christmas and Thanksgiving there's a candle lit table waiting for good cheer not ours we stood sentry to grandpa's story as our faces glowed in horror grandpa had that effect he would begin by looking at grandma at the other end of the table a nervousness in hers and with a gleam in his eye and a broken record inside he began there once was bag of marbles ... ha, ha he would actually say that and inside all the shiny marbles cling and clung together ... ha, ha your grandma and I ... get this we were a red and yellow marble and the exception as his voice raced faster his eyes bigger his face a sweet melody and he's so kid like, and he's eighty ..." we banged" ..." we banged" the words coming out juvenile perhaps from a drunk, but he doesn't drink then on cue he prompts us to say you what? "we banged" "we banged" ..."your grandma was in my back pocket" his face lighting up in a smile his eyes and ears peeking, waiting for applause and we did ... we did grandma her face beet red she would look around the table her eyes looking at the turkey back at him, back at the turkey we could read her mind every year the same story that's grandpa grandma, for her part would always bask in grandpa's puddles LR-4/24/17
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Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 2:06 AM UTC
Grandpa's Puddles
No one is here and I feel at ease; I feel the recesses of my imagination spring forward as ideas are at the forefront of my mind, yet I cannot put them down on paper. I feel the neon pinks and blues and greens that I know strongly resonate with me, but to my dismay, nothing ever comes to fruition as much as I hope. That cliché phrase of, “The sky is the limit,” drowns me as I realize parameters and prompts are what guide me to what I truly want; the idea of freedom gives me anxiety, as I am a clueless ant on this plane. As I look at a solitary trashcan of impossible black, this idea of suffocation truly encompasses my mind, inescapable, unreachable, and unattainable. Yet at the same time, limits **** darlings. With this seeming paradox of open-endedness and limitation, I set forth on my prompt, however mundane it may seem now. This task seemed at first simple, but it proved difficult at times, like most mundane looking venues. My mind is not unlike a checkerboard stone table: cold and calculating; I feel my imagination dies when my fingers touch keys, when pen hits paper. “The sky is the limit,” drowns me over and over and over again. I look out of my peripherals and glance at the red building signs, wishing there was something as obvious as that for a sense of direction in my life. My imagination truly hates me, my imagination truly loves me; it is an indecisive companion. I wish I was alone, but my mind wishes otherwise.
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Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014 at 3:05 PM UTC
The colors of my mind
*Our many voyages of desert and sea the harshness observed.. smooth cushioned water becomes raging storm.. a splitting violence this external turbulence kindles jolts of anger then fear and supplication.. finally the Question.. tumult and danger seem forceful prompts suggesting surrender to veils of indifference.. yet some find now new possibility arising to trace one's journey: jagged roaring storm stimulates and brightens fading light within.. in these extremes depths awaken heights new sisterhood appears.. in one's journey log a backward look records hidden leaps of courage and faith.. real awareness of one's precarious life String...*
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Feb 23, 2013
Feb 23, 2013 at 8:08 PM UTC
Mother Nature
Ruby red love She didn’t give it a shove With delicate diamonds just above A love to find Not the gaudy kind Purposely shaped heart In search of where to start Placed upon a tiny finger To make one stop and linger A Ruby shine With Red glare so clear So much so That one could begin to fear What would happen if they Tried to disappear Runaway they might With just cause Of too much fright Would bring her to shed a tear That Red ruby so clear Reminds her of the cheer And the time he spilled his beer Red ruby dazzling bright If only see the light Whats its symbolize Character or compromise She was utterly surprised That tiny clear red ruby A reminder Love is never like that movie Ruby red love Unmistakable beauty Recalling a late summer sunset A clear preset With its curves Upon that finger Can be a deep stinger If not preserved Prompts the feeling Sensationally deserved
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 11:47 AM UTC
Ruby Red
before existentialism, and nietzsche in mind, philosophy was written or spoken of accepting the socratic rigidity of words, the rigidity of words known through the socratic method of inquiry: the simplest of questions imposed on the meaning of words; e.g. what is virtue? but with existentialism this old method of inquiry, the poised posing bewilderment lost its quality, in that the new method of inquiry was given to stress not a method of questioning but that of ambiguity, even though this new method that simply said the reverse of what is virtue as the preservation of a narrative: "virtue" concedes many variations exampled true, e.g. - this dittoing going against - previously said / as above - became staged against a brick wall - since this method, the existential method of brushing aside inquiry and entering the realm of ambiguity was already present - the pluralism of meaning found in certain words; it isn't a question whether red or blue can be ambiguous, this allocation of noun and quality is all too pervasive - so when an ambiguity is allowed to exercise its stressor posit - the word in question is allocated a verb orientation in its exercise of use and example, further diluted by the quantity and lack of example, and ascribed contorting adjectivity due to the dilution of meaning: with lessened recognition of sought out qualification to sentence an enzymic perfection of: banker and philanthropist, priest and maximilian kolbe, poetry and lack of envy. even though these examples are idealistic, they provide the obvious ambiguity already apparent, hence the double ambiguity of opposites, ideal opposites. in shorthand - if socrates were to come upon reading existentialism - his questions regarding the virtues would be bound to free floating terms in the ditto bubbles of flimsiness of non-inquiry - bewildered by the number of prompts to question, there would be no necessary ambiguity to many other terms of inactivity - such as the previously mentioned red and blue, dog and glue, but too many, it would seem, should a strict belief in categorising virtue as a noun but not a verb be kept - for categorisation of such nature only provides a linear cascade without due action or cared for imitation - ending with the only chance of virtue chanced and seen as an unvirtuous person doing crossword puzzles in silence - and already virtue's opposite is engaged in defending itself and justifying its ills by first forcing many synonyms to cover it in ambiguity, and asserting itself as an adjective within a noun framework blunt: virtue v. unvirtuous will only confiscate siamese phonetic mingling to ease the definition; i guess that's how rhyming was born, the opposite of alphabetical ordering: a, aardvark                              the violet's blue                                                                    ****** a doughnut with you.
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC
the last line in a difficult poem is always fun
before existentialism, and nietzsche in mind, philosophy was written or spoken of accepting the socratic rigidity of words, the rigidity of words known through the socratic method of inquiry: the simplest of questions imposed on the meaning of words; e.g. what is virtue? but with existentialism this old method of inquiry, the poised posing bewilderment lost its quality, in that the new method of inquiry was given to stress not a method of questioning but that of ambiguity, even though this new method that simply said the reverse of what is virtue as the preservation of a narrative: "virtue" concedes many variations exampled true, e.g. - this dittoing going against - previously said / as above - became staged against a brick wall - since this method, the existential method of brushing aside inquiry and entering the realm of ambiguity was already present - the pluralism of meaning found in certain words; it isn't a question whether red or blue can be ambiguous, this allocation of noun and quality is all too pervasive - so when an ambiguity is allowed to exercise its stressor posit - the word in question is allocated a verb orientation in its exercise of use and example, further diluted by the quantity and lack of example, and ascribed contorting adjectivity due to the dilution of meaning: with lessened recognition of sought out qualification to sentence an enzymic perfection of: banker and philanthropist, priest and maximilian kolbe, poetry and lack of envy. even though these examples are idealistic, they provide the obvious ambiguity already apparent, hence the double ambiguity of opposites, ideal opposites. in shorthand - if socrates were to come upon reading existentialism - his questions regarding the virtues would be bound to free floating terms in the ditto bubbles of flimsiness of non-inquiry - bewildered by the number of prompts to question, there would be no necessary ambiguity to many other terms of inactivity - such as the previously mentioned red and blue, dog and glue, but too many, it would seem, should a strict belief in categorising virtue as a noun but not a verb be kept - for categorisation of such nature only provides a linear cascade without due action or cared for imitation - ending with the only chance of virtue chanced and seen as an unvirtuous person doing crossword puzzles in silence - and already virtue's opposite is engaged in defending itself and justifying its ills by first forcing many synonyms to cover it in ambiguity, and asserting itself as an adjective within a noun framework blunt: virtue v. unvirtuous will only confiscate siamese phonetic mingling to ease the definition; i guess that's how rhyming was born, the opposite of alphabetical ordering: a, aardvark                              the violet's blue                                                                    ****** a doughnut with you.
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My personal déjà-vu-time memory-prompts that frame The blurring patterns of today’s hubcap-wheels, spinning Kaleidoscope flashbacks of bathtub playtime. A gaggle of giggling girls babbling about What used to matter : umbrella-popping chewing gum With gallivanting jargon laced in crushes-hushed : boy-talk.   Pillows : Comforters morphing, swarming like Womb-entranced, half-cupped palms calmed Palpitating mouths motoring off self-pitying rumble-grumbles. How the clopping ball of opted-birr was a bent-mouth birdcall Over-relished, over-zealous imploration : a round robin Jumblemix of a jejune bombast for slap-sticked power. By-and-by polysyllabic buds bloomed, baked, and wrinkled Past-Gas’s long-gone jokes : those balmy snug-hugs guarding Doltish vulgarity among the begrimed-glitch and old-grown-boring Jive.
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Apr 7, 2011
Apr 7, 2011 at 11:49 PM UTC
Word-Play : Kid-Play : Memory-Play : More-Play
Love is the Beauty that overtakes Our every sense of being alive, The dew of Heaven that nourishes Each new dream, enabling it to thrive Love is the Beauty our eyes emit As it rekindles the lambent flame Cruelly extinguished when loneliness Comes to inhabit our weakened frame Love is the Beauty of eventide When every star in the universe Floods the sky with gold and silver orbs, And the moon prompts poets in their verse Love is the Beauty that ambles through The desolate chambers of the mind, Removing all the hopeless despair That loneliness often leaves behind Loneliness is the uncaring Beast That laughs while our broken spirit mourns, It suffocates our passions and dreams, Laying on the heart a crown of thorns The Beast of Loneliness is famine, Whereas Love is an infinite feast; To appreciate the joy Love brings, They both must exist ..... Beauty and Beast
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Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 11:10 AM UTC
Beauty and the Beast
This cold night, prompts us to creep closer to each other, warm ember glow of far away galaxies pierce through the laden darkness effortlessly find way to be near us, wink happily. Love keeps our expectant bodies warm light years stand sentinel to our transactions. What a strange contradiction, is this! but realization dawns in a moment that it's the cosmic truth, absolute: an open secret of life, we straddle both, now and timelessness! Eternity is in our genes, just the same that  glows in stars, millions of light years away, we are clothed in transience, at this moment.
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Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 2:54 PM UTC
The bridge between transience and eternity passes through us
In the intricate tapestry of love, the adage "once a cheater, always a cheater" weaves a cautionary thread. It is a phrase laden with the weight of experience, a mantra that whispers of broken trust and shattered vows. When someone treads the path of betrayal, leaving the fragments of a once-whole heart in their wake, the scars run deep. The echoes of deceit reverberate in the corridors of love, leaving those who have been wounded hesitant to trust again. The notion, "once a cheater, always a cheater," emerges as a defense mechanism, a shield against the vulnerability of being deceived once more. Yet, in the realm of love, the narrative isn't always so black and white. People evolve, learn from their mistakes, and yearn for redemption. It's crucial to acknowledge the capacity for change within each individual. While the wounds of betrayal may linger, they need not dictate the course of someone's entire romantic journey. The human experience is multifaceted, and relationships are complex landscapes. People stumble, fall, and sometimes, they rise anew, reshaped by the crucible of their own errors. Love, at its essence, encompasses forgiveness, growth, and the possibility of second chances. So, while the cautionary phrase carries the weight of wisdom, it is equally important to recognize the potential for transformation. People can break free from the chains of their past misdeeds, learn to value trust, and construct relationships founded on honesty and integrity. Love, after all, is as much about healing as it is about the initial spark. In the end the tale of "once a cheater, always a cheater" is not a universal truth but rather a reminder that love demands conscientious navigation. It prompts us to approach relationships with discernment, to treasure the fragility of trust, and to foster an environment where growth and change are not only possible but celebrated.
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Nov 25, 2023
Nov 25, 2023 at 7:26 AM UTC
once a cheater always a cheater
In the intricate tapestry of love, the adage "once a cheater, always a cheater" weaves a cautionary thread. It is a phrase laden with the weight of experience, a mantra that whispers of broken trust and shattered vows. When someone treads the path of betrayal, leaving the fragments of a once-whole heart in their wake, the scars run deep. The echoes of deceit reverberate in the corridors of love, leaving those who have been wounded hesitant to trust again. The notion, "once a cheater, always a cheater," emerges as a defense mechanism, a shield against the vulnerability of being deceived once more. Yet, in the realm of love, the narrative isn't always so black and white. People evolve, learn from their mistakes, and yearn for redemption. It's crucial to acknowledge the capacity for change within each individual. While the wounds of betrayal may linger, they need not dictate the course of someone's entire romantic journey. The human experience is multifaceted, and relationships are complex landscapes. People stumble, fall, and sometimes, they rise anew, reshaped by the crucible of their own errors. Love, at its essence, encompasses forgiveness, growth, and the possibility of second chances. So, while the cautionary phrase carries the weight of wisdom, it is equally important to recognize the potential for transformation. People can break free from the chains of their past misdeeds, learn to value trust, and construct relationships founded on honesty and integrity. Love, after all, is as much about healing as it is about the initial spark. In the end the tale of "once a cheater, always a cheater" is not a universal truth but rather a reminder that love demands conscientious navigation. It prompts us to approach relationships with discernment, to treasure the fragility of trust, and to foster an environment where growth and change are not only possible but celebrated.
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I had thanksgiving with my St. Lucian family, my loud, unapologetic, laughs-too-loud, generation-gap homemade *** heads in phones, blasting dancehall music old ladies dancing clap-back talk-back family. "Play us a song", my cousin and I sent to my room to play jazz chords, I finger along clumsily. He's in college and his dark eyes close, fingers sliding up and down the frets, frowning in concentration, cursing quietly at a missed note. My islander family comes over and prompts impromptu drinking games, "I'm not looking, I saw nothing", I lick a bit of vanilla ***** from my mother's shot glass, alcohol becomes a family affair, it takes away the danger and the stigma and throws a friendly, lovely light on a vice. It's raining, it's cold, islanders do not belong on a Kansas porch smoking cigarettes in the dark rain. I light candles on the wall. They all outlast their welcome, between four and a half hours of transition from uncomfortable "i don't remember your name", put on the spot, only-child-becomes-one-of-several to discussing baby names and family gossip, they all wrap up their food slaved over at nine am, they all troop out the door, they take their coats, they leave their wide smiles with us until next time.
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Nov 27, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 at 2:16 AM UTC
St. Lucia Thanksgiving
What is it about loose eyelashes That prompts wofty wishes; Are they heaven’s kisses In disguise? We all want to lift our eyes Above the cloak of disguise Even if it may compromise The facade, and authenticity’s surprise. This world is concrete; In Western buildings and consumer-trodden streets, In the here-and-now, we can flee And dismiss lofty things as absolute. But we are meaning-makers, We are constant risk-takers. We are pursuers for magic’s sake, And may our quest we foolheartedly take.
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Jun 5, 2025
Jun 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM UTC
floating eyelashes
Where it all started... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2018179/only-a-dumbass-man-could-love-a-smartass-poodle/ <•> The Obvious Fact: Dogs Have Souls ******** poodle, of prior fame, suggests* "surely this ditty will trend before one reads to the very end" 1. as everyone loves dogs 2. especially smart poodles 3. who writes soulful poems really, here we are talking and you are gazing into my brown eyes adoringly, and you humans still debate if there is a god?"* and then dog yawned, a gigundo doggy yawn, which is a supernatural, miraculous biblical thing to behold <•> for no reason other than gravity man says, sometimes my earbuds fall out of my ears, without provocation, of their own accord, to remind that though they're in, the music isn't in, and neither am I anywhere real, concrete, existential, to be found which prompts a furious philosophical poodle to man discourse, as to my exact whereabouts badass poodle quotes Joan Baez (Diamonds and Rust): "My poetry was lousy you said," and to verify my geo-physical locus, and his opinion of the human's written hocus pocus poetry, gentle farts and adds, low growling, "there your are!" how I love that centered, down to earth, in my bed, in my heart dog <•> "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." Goldfinger a favorite phrase from a movie of one's youth. that rises to the surface, when smartass-u-know-who reads my weak human mind and yes, farts twice more, adding poetically: *"the best things in life always come in threes, her, me, and you"* "glad to be included," I replied, to which he licked his privates publicly, adding lowly,   *"every smart poodle need a leashed human, as if any self-respecting poodl could or would type their own poems, who's the *** now!"* and we got up, got the leash (for human to carry) put our earbuds in, went for a sunrise sniff-walk-and-compose on the beach the two ********** arguing which Pandora station to turn on, two only love poets, both thinking of their shared her finally, compromising, in tail wagging agreement on, The Righteous Brothers <•> p.s. lol, only a ******* man could love a ******** poodle.   ~ 8:33am 8/11/17
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Aug 11, 2017
Aug 11, 2017 at 6:32 PM UTC
The Obvious Fact: Dogs Have Souls (Love Poems by a ******** Poodle Poet)
Where it all started... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2018179/only-a-dumbass-man-could-love-a-smartass-poodle/ <•> The Obvious Fact: Dogs Have Souls ******** poodle, of prior fame, suggests* "surely this ditty will trend before one reads to the very end" 1. as everyone loves dogs 2. especially smart poodles 3. who writes soulful poems really, here we are talking and you are gazing into my brown eyes adoringly, and you humans still debate if there is a god?"* and then dog yawned, a gigundo doggy yawn, which is a supernatural, miraculous biblical thing to behold <•> for no reason other than gravity man says, sometimes my earbuds fall out of my ears, without provocation, of their own accord, to remind that though they're in, the music isn't in, and neither am I anywhere real, concrete, existential, to be found which prompts a furious philosophical poodle to man discourse, as to my exact whereabouts badass poodle quotes Joan Baez (Diamonds and Rust): "My poetry was lousy you said," and to verify my geo-physical locus, and his opinion of the human's written hocus pocus poetry, gentle farts and adds, low growling, "there your are!" how I love that centered, down to earth, in my bed, in my heart dog <•> "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." Goldfinger a favorite phrase from a movie of one's youth. that rises to the surface, when smartass-u-know-who reads my weak human mind and yes, farts twice more, adding poetically: *"the best things in life always come in threes, her, me, and you"* "glad to be included," I replied, to which he licked his privates publicly, adding lowly,   *"every smart poodle need a leashed human, as if any self-respecting poodl could or would type their own poems, who's the *** now!"* and we got up, got the leash (for human to carry) put our earbuds in, went for a sunrise sniff-walk-and-compose on the beach the two ********** arguing which Pandora station to turn on, two only love poets, both thinking of their shared her finally, compromising, in tail wagging agreement on, The Righteous Brothers <•> p.s. lol, only a ******* man could love a ******** poodle.   ~ 8:33am 8/11/17
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A good friend prompts your simmering swamp As creative ideas fill the draught But the draught can't be drunk as once thought You can't always catch what was once caught Yet the draught still boils and oozes froth So what can you do but skim it off Collect it and make a new froth draught Never forgetting what was sought
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 3:05 PM UTC
The Draught
SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire, **** Winter's blooming child ; delightful Spring ! Whose unshorn locks with leaves And swelling buds are crowned ; From the green islands of eternal youth, (Crown'd with fresh blooms, and ever springing shade,) Turn, hither turn thy step, O thou, whose powerful voice More sweet than softest touch of Doric reed, Or Lydian flute, can sooth the madding winds, And thro' the stormy deep Breathe thy own tender calm. Thee, best belov'd ! the ****** train await With songs and festal rites, and joy to rove Thy blooming wilds among, And vales and dewy lawns, With untir'd feet ; and cull thy earliest sweets To weave fresh garlands for the glowing brow Of him, the favour'd youth That prompts their whisper'd sigh. Unlock thy copious stores ; those tender showers That drop their sweetness on the infant buds, And silent dews that swell The milky ear's green stem. And feed the slowering osier's early shoots ; And call those winds which thro' the whispering boughs With warm and pleasant breath Salute the blowing flowers. Now let me sit beneath the whitening thorn, And mark thy spreading tints steal o'er the dale ; And watch with patient eye Thy fair unfolding charms. O nymph approach ! while yet the temperate sun With bashful forehead, thro' the cool moist air Throws his young maiden beams, And with chaste kisses woes The earth's fair ***** ; while the streaming veil Of lucid clouds with kind and frequent shade Protect thy modest blooms From his severer blaze. Sweet is thy reign, but short ; The red dog-star Shall scorch thy tresses, and the mower's scythe Thy greens, thy flow'rets all, Remorseless shall destroy. Reluctant shall I bid thee then farewel ; For O, not all the Autumn's lap contains, Nor Summer's ruddiest fruits, Can aught for thee atone Fair Spring ! whose simplest promise more delights Than all their largest wealth, and thro' the heart Each joy and new-born hope With softest influence breathes.
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Ode To Spring
SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire, **** Winter's blooming child ; delightful Spring ! Whose unshorn locks with leaves And swelling buds are crowned ; From the green islands of eternal youth, (Crown'd with fresh blooms, and ever springing shade,) Turn, hither turn thy step, O thou, whose powerful voice More sweet than softest touch of Doric reed, Or Lydian flute, can sooth the madding winds, And thro' the stormy deep Breathe thy own tender calm. Thee, best belov'd ! the ****** train await With songs and festal rites, and joy to rove Thy blooming wilds among, And vales and dewy lawns, With untir'd feet ; and cull thy earliest sweets To weave fresh garlands for the glowing brow Of him, the favour'd youth That prompts their whisper'd sigh. Unlock thy copious stores ; those tender showers That drop their sweetness on the infant buds, And silent dews that swell The milky ear's green stem. And feed the slowering osier's early shoots ; And call those winds which thro' the whispering boughs With warm and pleasant breath Salute the blowing flowers. Now let me sit beneath the whitening thorn, And mark thy spreading tints steal o'er the dale ; And watch with patient eye Thy fair unfolding charms. O nymph approach ! while yet the temperate sun With bashful forehead, thro' the cool moist air Throws his young maiden beams, And with chaste kisses woes The earth's fair ***** ; while the streaming veil Of lucid clouds with kind and frequent shade Protect thy modest blooms From his severer blaze. Sweet is thy reign, but short ; The red dog-star Shall scorch thy tresses, and the mower's scythe Thy greens, thy flow'rets all, Remorseless shall destroy. Reluctant shall I bid thee then farewel ; For O, not all the Autumn's lap contains, Nor Summer's ruddiest fruits, Can aught for thee atone Fair Spring ! whose simplest promise more delights Than all their largest wealth, and thro' the heart Each joy and new-born hope With softest influence breathes.
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While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses promise to assist my pen; ’Twas not long since I left my native shore The land of errors, and Egyptain gloom: Father of mercy, ’twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. Students, to you ’tis giv’n to scan the heights Above, to traverse the ethereal space, And mark the systems of revolving worlds. Still more, ye sons of science ye receive The blissful news by messengers from heav’n, How Jesus’ blood for your redemption flows. See him with hands out-stretcht upon the cross; Immense compassion in his ***** glows; He hears revilers, nor resents their scorn: What matchless mercy in the Son of God! When the whole human race by sin had fall’n, He deign’d to die that they might rise again, And share with him in the sublimest skies, Life without death, and glory without end. Improve your privileges while they stay, Ye pupils, and each hour redeem, that bears Or good or bad report of you to heav’n. Let sin, that baneful evil to the soul, By you be shun’d, nor once remit your guard; Suppress the deadly serpent in its egg. Ye blooming plants of human race divine, An Ethiop tells you ’tis your greatest foe; Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain, And in immense perdition sinks the soul.
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To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England
/ We know the truth of this history If the time is upon us to sin We can refuse to But the charges do not Men move toward the classic way To love To Light To Dream To Release One thing I want to say to Claudius: Not a War Not a ****** Take away any child smile Anyone can't be happy Who Murdered Love Anyone can't bring peace Who does not love the flowers He may even **** **Valentine, My dear Valentine:** On that day you captured Thought so Is not something else, Love is the only way of Salvation Human life like a hill track Somewhere in ups and downs, This prompts the love constantly Friend And So "Hate is the only word for Claudius" Though You put to Death, Hundreds of thousands of years later Yet Love glistens in the hearts of millions, Everybody a Valentine One And Today I say, Say with my thousand friends **"Long Live the Love   Long Live Valentine"** / @ Musfiq us shaleheen
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 4:51 PM UTC
In Memory of St.Valentine
On a particularly dry morning I Google “creative writing prompts.” “What are you eating for breakfast?” “Have you ever dreamt of being blasted off to outer space?” “Have you ever encountered a speed ****** in a Walmart parking lot?” “Imagine you are a ghost roaming the hallways of the Cecil Hotel.” “Have you ever looked at yourself fully naked in the mirror after a night of ugly debauchery?” Never mind - I suppose another love poem wouldn’t hurt.
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Feb 14, 2021
Feb 14, 2021 at 11:24 AM UTC
Old Habits
Yes, we have been discharged from The Law, but we’re not freed from our responsibility; as Children of Almighty God, we acknowledge the duties of our spiritual accountability. We’re to be obedient to the Spirit’s prompts and not blindly to a codicil of written rules; the framework of Godly principles assists us, when circumstances of Life suddenly turn cruel. The underlying difference is when perspective changes from a slave to one of His servants; with a proper mindset and divine viewpoint, we become… the embodiment of His new covenant. Are we just disregarding the old regulations or are we redefining them by Love’s Salvation? . . . Author Notes Inspired by: Rom 7:6 Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://amzn.to/1ffo9YZ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2015, All rights reserved.
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 5:01 PM UTC
Poem: Disregarding the Old Regulations?
My personal déjà-vu-time memory-prompts that frame The blurring patterns of today’s hubcap-wheels, spinning Kaleidoscope flashbacks of bathtub playtime. A gaggle of giggling girls babbling about What used to matter : umbrella-popping chewing gum With gallivanting jargon laced in crushes-hushed : boy-talk. Pillows : Comforters morphing, swarming like Womb-entranced, half-cupped palms calmed Palpitating mouths motoring off self-pitying rumble-grumbles. How the clopping ball of opted-birr was a bent-mouth birdcall Over-relished, over-zealous imploration : a round robin Jumblemix of a jejune bombast for high-brow, White-men polemics By-and-by polysyllabic buds bloomed, baked, and wrinkled Past-Gas’s long-gone jokes : those balmy snug-hugs guarding Based-vulgarity amongst the begrimed-teeth-sucking and homegrown-Jive.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 3:53 AM UTC
Word Play : Kid Play : Memory Play : More Play (Revised)
My first breath is tight, gripping my chest and aching to my throat. My mind follows with chatter controlling my day before it starts. Closing my eyes allows no darkness, only worry. My body gets up and starts it's day, my mind drifts behind in a daze. Conversations are a blur while I focus on my legs, numb with panic. Smile, someone in my head prompts. Appearances portray normality while insanity consumes within.
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 7:56 AM UTC
Panic