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197 · May 2017
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O flesh
When the doom boom
When the night gloom
The echoes boom boom
O spirit
Have strength to say goodbye

by Jean C Bertrand
197 · Sep 2017
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I made kite from the stars
or
Star
from
The kites...
I don't know!
Your eyes were full of kites and stars

Written by
Keikavoos Yakideh
197 · Sep 2017
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Sitting under the tree
Talking to the whispers of the wind
Under the tree of calmness
The temple of godly land
Closing my eyes feeling ecstasy
As i heard a whistling whiskey
Bottling voice of drunkard in the garden
The sacred divine peaceful breeze in doom
Poisonous irreligious thoughts
A blanket speech
Polluted the ocean
Smoking sealing lips
Ocean birds can not fly
In the wilderness

Written by
Jean C Bertrand
196 · Nov 2017
CALLS OF THE WALLS
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I like my old photographs
as compare to the present one''
''I look very young, pretty beautiful, wrinkle-free
in my photograph of 50 years back,
when I was hardly twenty years old,''
That reminds me when spring comes, Every flower blooms

Life is not like photography,
We use the negative to develop.
Photographs capture a moment
That's gone forever, Impossible to reproduce

In my old photographs
I look very young and handsome
I see the books I have read
The music I have heard
The people I have met
And all those I have loved
And above all
There are no bad pictures;
That's just now your face looks sometimes
You don't take a photograph, but you make it.

Many years ago, I am on lap of my young mother
And many came new Making my all memories
Rising on the canvass with my son's wedding
Wishes cling like honey bee in beehive
The joy of embrace, crazy kiss and hug

All old photographs of tears and smile
Moving like movie they all touch me
Like my soul survive the amputated sea of wishes
Merge with roaring ocean to attain something unknown

Drawing delightful senses to know hidden upstairs
Encourage the arrow of hope to bank on goodwill bow
To reach its new target as in my latest photograph on wall
With strong determination of stamina with my grandchildren

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
196 · Aug 2017
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Being (silent/dim) at evenings
from the this mountaintop
Waiting for the singing image of the burning orb
Turned to the pathway of memories.
In a handful of wheat
There's another hand
A trenchant hilt
-like the diving of a hawk into the cloud-
Yeah
This is the way humans are.
Some people
Plant their seeds
in the rivers and the seas
as it doesn't grow,
Getting futilely
fatigued
in this fighting
against the rivers and the seas for years.
Some others, some sullen ones
standing in the rivers and seas
with the seeds in their hands,
They don't plant
The expect of the growth in that
wet trembling fingers turns to an *****.
They have been futilely
fatigued
in a fight against those they see as
spellbound foolish ones for years.
In me but there exists
a clever
depressed taciturn
scientist, knows all that can not
be done as the stone doesn't
know all that can be done.
This way
I know that all the rivers
in the world are fierce and spiteful
They even take away the corpus
of the plants and old trees.
Don't be deceived by their purl.
Giving them wheat ?!!
No
No wheat grains in trembling hands.
A man a knowing one should go
to the alp
Giving the wheat to the cloud.
The cloud
is the calm heavenly water
And it should know about the
melody of the sun
A trenchant sword is ready to harvest.
It comes back home, proud of
knowing with the glory of an
armful wheat
For the children's hand not being
empty of wheat.
The cloud of the grain field is
now a little far away from me
It may be arrived near my home
Surely my wife's arms would
smell as new baked bread when I
come back home.

Written by
Keikavoos Yakideh
please forgive me
for the bad translation
his poems have several meanings
and i translate it in my opinion with the help of my teacher
for example the word 'عصر' means: evening , time, era,period.... in our language and i am not sure which one is better here,silent evenings or silent times....and ''خاموش'' means silent, dim... even we can say dim evenings
i do not forgive myself...
196 · Sep 2017
DISCOVER THE LIF'S STREAM
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''Build your mountain with every thought
Your dearer birth, your parent's had brought

Inspect each and every seed
Sow in soil, free from all weeds

Then stand back 40 miles
To see the farms growing in styles

And see the shape your dream
Dancing ******* discover the life's stream

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
196 · Jul 2017
SOMETHINGS LAST A LIFETIME
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I forgot everything and you reminded me again
Will Twice saying.''Very Sorry'', remove all pain

Things that we did together, How did I forget ?
by repeating our vows will make me strong yet !

Few things last and Some things last a lifetime
But love like ours comes just once in a lifetime

But love like ours comes just once in a lifetime
Things that we did together, How did I forger ?

Will twice saying.''Very Sorry'' remove all pain
You do entertain, making me free from complain

Now what can be used to turn both of us to gain
You reminded me everything, God always are plain

Let us pray to be happy and free from all the pain
We will now pluck the flowers, only after the rain

We will now pluck the flowers, only after the rain
Old dirt will be washed and there's no stain remain

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
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In the core of my Soul
I live in the placelessness of the place

That is unchangeable,
Unbreakable, unseen and untouched

And I long for your
Endlessly, Eternally, Enduring
Affinity of infinity
Abiding the Tenable,
Durable and deathless
Being the whole part
Of Time and Space

Carefree, everlasting and perpetual youth
In never languishing place less of the place

Like a roamer roaming in the floating shade
Tracing that traceless roots of the rootless

Like migrating bird of passage
Bathing in the melting snowflakes

There my heart and my soul dip in
Streaming symphony of your soul

Awakening in the sleeping night
Forgetting ignorant sleep
Relaxing in your Enlightened lap

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
194 · May 2017
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I buy hairpins
And the scissor makes friend
with the balloon...

من گل سر می خرم
و قیچی
...با بادبادک دوست می شود
194 · Aug 2017
HEAPS OF RARE DIAMONDS 167
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You could have been a sublime Lotus in mud, ooze, and slime
But you proved to be a coal in the heaps of rare diamonds time

You could have been the coolest water in a deadly fire of Lime
But you proved to be melting wax of smoky candle's end of time

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
193 · May 2017
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Crazily Lily
O ravishing summer
If i tell you
Adorable jasmine
Please don't laugh
Night falls
Moonlit dancing
Fragrance of the night
Blooming my heart
When the wind blows
The purity aroma
Breezing into my heart
Beautifying my night
Dissipating the sadness
Gratitude overflowing
Sweet crazily Lily
O Jasmine my beauteous
Basil basil please understand
O full moon my loveliness
May I devote myself to embrace
Good- hearted loving spirit

by Jean C Bertrand
193 · Oct 2017
SWEET SOULS IN COMFORT
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You look after me when I fall asleep on the floor
Good people love their vowed chaste life to keep
In bare, naked, and cold base of that ground's kiss
I feel your warmness close me as a quickfire touch

Togetherness is better than a single big tree in the desert
Solitaire diamond may be mesmerizing Moon but are rare
Your sound of silence in a sea of magic is a perfect harmony
You always captured the mood here well in changing events

Many seasons came and went but we are in this family house,
Spouse never shakes but awakes to fulfill fate and destination
Someday our grandkids will be there to greet us at the door
Time will come as a witness to strange but real vantage point

Life is really not a harum-scarum shadow of Alice in the glass
Color alone does not make any difference but the art in bliss
I am lucky that still, water runs deep beneath the surface
And we are uncaged Souls in the comfort of sweet darkness

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
193 · Dec 2017
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down the river
scattering among stars
my mom's ashes

Written by
Cristina Apetrei
192 · Jul 2017
Only Death is Fine
When I give my body as sacrifice to soil
That's when everything shall be fine
And I become a people's problem for their self concern
As for me abundant of life awaits me to embrace

Written by
Martin Ijir
192 · Apr 2017
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I've air in my lungs
Eyes in my socket
I can see the sunset
And i can buy a pie whenever i want...

THANK YOU GOD !


Joey Percival Ikechukwu
191 · Jan 2017
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this reminds me of something,,,
191 · Jun 2017
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I resurrect the death
Through the words I wrote
I unfeathered an awaken spirit
into realms of immortality

Written by
Martin Ijir
191 · Sep 2017
SMILING TOUCH
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O, God, Only You know exact position
None knows condition of my heart

I Just want your creation's
Sparkle in tired eyes
My heart melts
In moments of fragrance
Coming from Pleasure's Garden

Cusp of day breaks morning's mist
Mixing monochromatic memories
Inevitable yearning flies

You are away
But I keep you close
Smiling touch of thought
Warming my heart

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
191 · Jul 2017
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You laughed
You laughing
You're laughing
You laugh you laugh you laugh
Watching tears in his eyes IT'S
a cruel world

Written by
Jean C Bertrand
190 · Aug 2017
INSIDES AND OUTSIDES 42
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I understand wrong, hurt and injury but preach to be wise just
Man of conscience of reasons, honors and virtues must trust

Most of the time, ''My insides don't match up with my outsides''
Sometimes I wear a silk to prove the kindness and soft insides

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
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Som­e come to pin points your mistakes and some only love
Reality is a true fact that will not change a raven for a dove

When man cries his tears dry up and run out, becomes a devil
Blood releases flood of might so high to reach unnatural level

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
190 · Sep 2017
WAND
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for a little while
you saw pain but
I see will power and
determination to survive
with my incandescent wand
of virginity, respect and reverence
in my blooming adolescence
catching time to trade every tomorrow

Written by
Jawahar Gupta
189 · Nov 2017
Lamentation
Our mothers are as widows
We are strangers in the land of our birth
Our actions incarcerate us as we buy our wood
Our water are being sold to us by foreigners

Our necks are persecuted by the power that be
When we shout to the white sky they preferred it to be dark
We labor without no rest in scornful shame
We are slaves to our brothers that leads us

We are ruled by servants of famine
who worship poverty, corruption and injustice
As their gods, they laud themselves in economic strive
They **** our woman and send our men into creeks and sambisa forests

They took our young men to grind as their thugs during election
And their years ripe with ashes of unemployment under their watch
The joy of our heart has stop and mourning is our drumbeat
Our diversity are plowed by foxes and our land are exploited by greed

Our heart faint in joy of silence
And our eyes are cover with division
our elders indoctrinate us with ethnicity and religion
While they work upon their pocket

Can't you see?
When will you washed your scotoma?
When will you stop my persecution to get enlightenment !
Why will a soul be enlighten and live in prison?

Why will you allowed to be lead as sheep to the slaughter?
Revolt o citizen! world citizen, for your liberation shall be fun as laughter
Drink the words of my lamentations as bread and butter
for your lamentation is soury and bitter

Written by
Martin Ijir
188 · May 2017
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an eternal memory by the sea shore
imprinted footsteps with tenderness
portrait portrait portrait
unforgettable momentum

Jean C Bertrand
188 · Sep 2017
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above wasteland
swarming birds in sky
black smoke billows

Written by
Ute Sonja Medley
188 · Oct 2017
I love her
I love her,
Even with excessive make up,
She loves dyeing her face and hair,
She adores me, but
She frequently forgets my name,
Even it is always the same,
While in every color,
Her face and body appear,
I constantly identify her,
Whatever,
Her face and hair
Do violently change,
Her identical rage,
In very attractive body cage;
Only once I thought,
She was my coffee
In the golden cup.

Written by
Jamal Abboud
188 · May 2017
Leaving You
In time dark place
You unleash my lace
And your moan show on my face
Make I haste to catch you in the pace

You show your smile as moon
Haunt me at my dreams - noon
Mine match yours and yours match mine
Together we are I can't leave you

You haunted me as starry heavens
You shown I , me true love
Be belatedly relating all your dreamships
As physically I do ascertain the facts

Then why should I say goodbye
This is the saddest word to ever say-bye
Just time and nothing but time separated us-by
By virtue of love and by virtue of time bind us by

Leaving you is the hardest thing
To do ; 'cause we are entwine
By words that are stronger than ocean-fire
As it burns it make me to inspire

Never will it expire
Even though I leave you I aspire
To be with you I inquire
You are always in my mind !

I shall use Jiahi Gudi
To lure you into my lair
Forever that you thought
You are lost in the air

by Martin Ijir
Martin says Jiahi Gudi is a flute that lulls someone
Made from bone of animal...
188 · May 2017
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They say Africa has got no history
They know how to tell the story

by Joey Percival Ikechukwu
188 · Jun 2017
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The goodness
The blessness
The loveness
Godliness
A poet always smile
In the hardship
Another inspiration
Ink spills in the ocean

Written by
Jean C Bertrand
187 · Nov 2017
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I'm speaking in silence.
Because when the world becomes a battle field, that's when you know
you are alone.

Written by
Joey Percival Ikechukwu
187 · Aug 2017
STOMACH OF DESIRES
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You live in me like a firework
In my stomach,
of desires
As Burning flames
From the foot to the height of the body
You are like a water
Sometimes dead frozen like a glacier and
Sometimes effective electric current as in a dam but
Sometimes ferocious like a flood killing me from all the sides

Why not you become Earth for me?
From where I can fly to Sky
With dormant seeds of wishes to bloom like Amarbael
From the thin lips of Touch-me-not
To Big smile of Indian Banyan Tree
And every visitor looking at me says,
The vast beautiful smile as the Grand Canyon

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
186 · Apr 2017
Imagination
Our bragging on earth
Bears an unending mirth
On a circle precinct of threshold
All our thoughts are unfold

Sadness of machines are built
To slain ones villain guilt
War, corruption, injustice, hatred, inequality all form of vices nourishes from our imagination

Sweetest of this is my imagination
Creates a new world
Hoping to mend sorrow sold
As it brings undying elation

My imagination sees the world behind black and white
Enwrapping it with abundance love
Erasing all vices with universal peace
As all embrace one with sparkling smile

Martin Ijir
185 · Sep 2017
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frozen roots
thirst for warming
pain relief

Written by
Ute Sonja Medley
184 · May 2017
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Thought of thoughts
Loving thoughts
Embracing loving words
Be an instrument
Be a representative of
Voice of voicelessness

by Jean C Bertrand
182 · Jun 2017
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A poet is an invisible soul
Floating in the air
Spreading words of loveness and kindness
A poet is an invisible soul
From the womb of the wind
Spreading sweet breeze in the heart of sufferings
A poet is an invisible soul
A lover a fighter for PEACE

Written by
Jean C Bertrand
182 · Sep 2017
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One more step
A crawling step
Willing to fall
Angry to get up
Baby cries and hold on
Like a garden waiting on the rain

One more step
The biggest step
Baby walking and smiling
Shaking still standing
Sweet tears dripping
So determine to walk
Not afraid to fall

One more step
A dream comes true
Gusty storms on the way
It cannot be last forever
A burning desire to walk
Aiming so high not afraid

One more step
Willing to fall
Angry to get up
You must no cry
You're a very talented being
When the pain hidden behind the clouds please don't despair
Something precious on the air
Just one more step away

Written by
Jean C Bertrand
182 · Dec 2017
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river...
our shifting
reflections

Written by
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
INDIANKUKAI.BLOGSPOT.COM
182 · Jan 2017
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خنده هایش آبیست
مادرم دریا بود

her smiles are blue
my mom was sea...
182 · Nov 2017
TO LET GO
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While going you ask me, May I go
Now you tell me, What should I reply?
Seeing you going, I feel as the fire of
My own lamp is burning my home, I'm shocked.

Some may recite a sad song or play on flute
But now my own mind does not belong to body
As your spirit do not own your body, but
Wasting water on a withered plant in backyard

Just think the loneliness of the deserted journey
No partner in another way in the hot sand of weeds
There is no noise, but it is very difficult for the bird to fly
That a sun can hide in the sun in the burning sky

Life is not the same when you see the mirror alone
The veil lifts and you go away with the fast breeze
and the flesh of the young fruits prompt to the breast
Now you do not even support yourself to as water in palm

I know many stories and tales of Laila Majnoo, Heer Raanjha
But, when dude is in the aspect, so, where to find the moon
I wanted to swim with you in an ocean of unlimited abundance
Not swimming in swimming pool, what is kept in river or ponds

Have you thought anything about your better half before going
It seems as you have deprived me of my light.lamp and oil of life

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
181 · Dec 2017
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If you were God
There would never be light
No sun
No stars in moonlight,
darkness at seas oceans,
gloomy momentum

Written by
Jean C Bertrand
181 · Aug 2017
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piercingly cold
stepping on my dead wife's comb
in the bedroom

Written by
Yosa Buson
Do you think haiku should be written from personal experience only? This is a powerful haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1784)
The sadness and grief is palpable and more so because the image of the man stepping on his dead wife's comb is such a small, domestic image, but one which explodes whit emotion the more we look at the other words in the haiku : the piercing cold, the previously shared comforting bedroom which is now a place of dark grief.
However Buson did not write this form personal experience. His own wife was still alive and well when he composed this haiku.
Does it matter? In my opinion, I don't think so. It's the finished haiku that matters, not the source of its inspiration.

I share Bee Jay's post
180 · Oct 2017
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advancing bright sun
in darkened sky
hope at horizon

Written by
Ute Sonja Medley
180 · Dec 2016
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until now i had not seen the beautiful laughing,,,

...من تا به حال خنده هایی به این زیبایی ندیده بودم
179 · May 2017
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I've had friends, friends that we have climbed the ladder with, unfortunately
friends are like a journey, they have a beginning, they have an end

by Joey Percival Ikechukwu
179 · Aug 2017
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shadow on my skin
passing thoughts of happiness
ephemeral life

Written by
Ute Sonja Medley
178 · Sep 2017
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kites in sky
intertwine while ascending,
heaven's hugs

Written by
Ute Sonja Medley
178 · May 2017
Morning Rose
She spreads her tentacle
As dew of snow pour
Releasing fragrance of splendor
Her enthralling colors perfect her odor

She is my morning rose
Making me to dive nose
Into ***** of garden bed
Enfolding myself in the still of her body sheet

Warmness shroud me like hail
As all ill-notion served me in your jail
Prithee i don't grant me bail
Only your heart nail my wood nail

Lasting love elope without delay
In purity of your heart let me rise high
For you're my **** of serotonin relay
My worshipful goddess relief clog me with sigh

Let me have one excruciating moment
Defying gods rule
Where we create akin gods
For the ****** birth is worth exemplary as you're already betrothed to nature

Let me be the sun that breaks the jinx
Let me be the moon that minced you
Into perfume that scent on my body odor
Where your kind despise me as you're my rose
Let the fire display and burn in my skin
So the flames cloud me as mist as I wake with you
Lying forever in soil of your between

by
Martin Ijir
178 · Nov 2017
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Season curves your lips
In endless beauty your face
Possesses, sky clouds
Alighting rains to pour in my heart

Written by
Martin Ijir
177 · Nov 2017
Only you
only you
strengthen me
with strong lips locking
closing my mouth to silent
and ******* your taste
on the exit of
every winter and summer

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
177 · Sep 2017
TWIST AND TURN
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Time and condition
changes whit sun
Seekers learn
To wear coat of future
Finds reasons to smile

So speaks golden voice
Explore the tug of unseen
On visible fabric of days
Kissing a future space
Smelling
Exotic scent of lucid painting
Floating on sea of the desires

Dramatic moments
Tattooed butterflies
Hazel silhouette
Autumn touching winter
Crossing Incandescent lines

Poet knows
From winter to spring to summer to autumn
All answers come in present
From future to pay the past

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~
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