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I was born in an independent free democratic country
With all the constitutional freedom to write, speak, hear and share
Poetry is my meditation, the every breath of my life
I write in the vicinity of my Goddess of Knowledge
But my words are edited by editor while being published
I recite my latest poems in the hall of poets
Where my friends complain about the illegal use of words
Which they can't digest so ask me to replace them as per their choice
They just hear my poems so that I should listen to them in turn!

Mutual sharing is just based on need and greed among our friends
Not on the quality, mission or vision but jealousy and discrimination
It pained me to do so, but it was needed for my personal uniqueness
So I thought to withdraw from them with a heavy heart but ease of Grace
Since I want my regular breath of life and not a constant suffocation

Poetry is my meditation, not an act of theater
Which may be changed as per public demand
By adding a comedian or a villain
To increase the rating of the show

I want to write my poems as I can enjoy them from my heart
Without the worldly audience
And I can recite them to me, to myself
In the company of my Goddess of Knowledge
Who really listen to me, and guide me to write better

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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You absorbed me in yourself as sweet breeze of Jasmine
Sparkle on my face as a thousand stars shine have been

Crisis of daily life has been resolved and sadness is dissolved
Good deeds, love seeds, compassion awakened and anger solved

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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When you're down and out
focus on Earth Sun, Ocean
open like a bridge

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Bumble bee
You buzzed into my life
And everything i used to be
Became so sweet like a mermaid at sea
You made everything fadeless
You wrote rhymes into me like a poem
Played my heart like a musical notes
Set my heart ablaze
And left me dazed like a youth who is Crazed

Bumble bee
You occupy space
Though you wrote my agony in syllables
You make me describe your absence in parables
You wrote your name in my heart
Now i bleed blue
I bleed you
If i choke on love
I'll need you
But every time i look
You're gone
Gone and left me like a stream flowing in tears
Bumble bee
You promised to Blossom
I let your flower grow in me
I kept you in my *****
So you can bloom
The love was there
But you never had time to see
I planted my emotions right into you
Even though i can't mend my heart
With plastic tapes
I'll sit here and wait
So one day you can come in to stay
Forever with me

by Joey Percival Ikechukwu

The aroma of those Lilacs,
will be green...
Its buds...
Your buds...
Among the white dress
they move;
your eyes...
Dead summer cherries...
Among your ears
So they have voice;
your eyes...
And your hands,
 A moment;
suspended
in time....
And how burning they will be this year
the whiteness of your hands,
In the absence of
white orange blossoms
in the garden
In the absence....

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Explorer wants to
know his destination through
veins of the palm leaf

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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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~~~

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Fragrance of Jasmine
makes me unconscious as Bee
in the cup of Lotus

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Hours tick while I lie in bed and memories keep surfacing,
Chasing the fragrant wind coming from west to east placing

My panic free lungs continue to expand for air to inhale life
Since I am I as you are you, preparing to die free from strife

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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digging deep
our eyes do weep
tears of mine give light
One-half of moon is bright

so we sing with anger and will not sleep
but our tongue and sorrow do sound deep
till we discover a transparent mind of our sheep
to keep the body in our body without any further peep

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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nymphomaniac
no, I am not but loves nymph
Childish mind's lust craze

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Wooden mats...
Wind...
And full of bright spots...
Noon,
I'll watch you eating lunch
I'll get you lemon juice...
In the garden,
I've planted Rose flowers
for حیاة🌸
Sunshine...
Green leaves...
And the shining of a color...
I sewed my child's dress...
Your body dancing...
your body has the swallows...
And grapes...
You have not drunk milk
from my *******...
and your balloons
remain in my childhood...
In the spring,
the femininity of my womb,
full of apple blossoms
and زهر الربیع *
Its cranes flying
To your palm trees...
And my ears are in the sky...

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I stopped thinking and
Closed my eyes
I smiled with an ease
I slid off little from the bed
I turned my back
And reached for the moon
Letting starlight and mother Light
Fall on my naked breast
In the silence of that lonely night
To experience the natural feeling
Feeling Free from everything

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Fragrance of today
enough to live a whole life
smelling Rose in thorns

by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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none alone you wait for dawn
see buds took the pain to blossom


flowers unable to bear now
the weight of their own youth


so they decided to come down
and kissed gently the green earth


let our thoughts vanish as dew
in the morning sun to see the color of the sky

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Coming from mountains
Silently cover our house and lawn
Elegant and cold to hug our warm body
In solitude of mute wind
Leaving behind icicles

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Sky is everywhere but you will find me only here
What will happen here, will not happen anywhere

Never be far off than near, so always be nearer the near
Air is everywhere but you will find cool breeze only here

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

I hear your laughter
Tell me the truth
Show me your blossom
Full bloom of spring

My tangerine moon
From heaven in sky
A secret behind the grey
Touching my soul
Slowing my aching

Gentle moon
Fully understand my pain
Igniting my inner soul
Abandoned the sadness
Perhaps we can dance

Ocean loving moon
No doubt tonight
The heart of the wind
Will kiss your soul
Harmonious blessing moon

Jean C Bertrand

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Lawn is not only a green grass
but have buds, flowers and thorns
just think how poets touch their hearts
without any reservation to all the souls
softness of affection is reflecting in words

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Under azure sky i lay
Listening to salsa drumbeat
Of the flowing stream
How beautiful it sounds

Elated moment fills me
That I faced the sun
And dance in the sun
Sprint of footsteps

We dance and touch the sun
Our body stiff with the cold sun
Floating in array of Moon hotness
Hotbeds of kisses we party till morn

Energy penetrated our failing strength
Our legs created wings we fly out of universe
Into the azure sky we dance in our created sun
Bringing rains of love as we become imprison by Sun

Written by
Martin Ijir

In there is semi lurid warm and dark
Thoughts pounding and gushing out with forces of momentum
Calmness inject solitary rest
Restitution of mind rerun light test

Temptation as rats, and rodents accompanied my companion
Unsolicited ****** bats *******
Relationship despise my sixfoot death row

Guffaw haunted voice echoed roaring
Cut by the gate closed, banging sound deafening
Makes fear wrestle boldness

Moreover in here am dead and forgetten in outer world
I have seen millions of orion light passed
Relatives and friends despise me for I speak the voice of truth
Better he lay there ant rot

My skin turns gholish white like a ghost
I give up my body and dance with my soul
I am a blessed soul enlightened with amethyst truth
My unwashed clothes are feed with snow detergent

And my waxing bone strong with rays of dark terruric energy trap
My sun never settle it shines
Eclipse of moon provides transculent illumination as I see divine
Flying high into a realm of self enlightenment in my death row as truth tow me
into a free being

by
Martin Ijir

I'm in favor that return,
Neither of us can tolerate this, in vain,
Season of travellers dressed red pain,
Strange ghosts, figures without eyes,
Pale faces with speechless cries,
Die on paths to paradise,
As lost memories recollect faded purposes,
Beseeching unappeasable promises,
Offered nearer to hope before despair,
suspended nowhere, reflecting a loitering nightmare,
Closer to their decayed bodies, their rotten flare,

I hope we compel our senses to return,
Enchanting fancies delude souls' Yearn,
To places swaying between sleep and dreams,
Where the unknown devours awareness beams;
See soul, supple promises have no signs here,
But whispers among whispers twitter near,
Unnatural tales in voiceless words in timeless sleep,
Divert eager faith, that courageously weep.
The closest to me, backward, we better creep.
To these worldly loving hearts who discern
where faiths convert concern to deep concern.

Written by
Jamal Abboud

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Guarding the garden
results of gorgeous flowers
in delicacies

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Cactus blooms in heart
like Lotus in mud of flesh
of my eternal soul

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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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~~~

angel, every smile i see
my heart keeps swimming like the sea
Every look i take
I wish everyday with you i'd wake
Every minute i breath
I know we're distantly close

Darling
You are a canoe with the spark of a rainbow
You're a kingfisher with the beauty of sparrow
You're a dew in a misty meadow
You're a knight that pierced my heart with an arrow

Sweetheart
We're distantly close
We're in love and the heaven knows
We may be poor like farmers without hoes
But we're angels with cherubic goals

Honey
We're wealthy without money
Its raining but our lives are bright and sunny
At morning we're never mourning
We in love, but our affection is still running

Baby
Permit me to kiss
Those lips that make me miss
Let me pull a chair
And lets breath without air
Hold your hair
And wake up when the sun is fair

by Joey Percival Ikechukwu

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When in the sky
You see me
Like on earth
Covered your
Shadow

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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My love, I need your companionship, so never say, no'',
I have few friends but world is full of enemies, you know
Whenever you like come as night or day but never to go
I become fountain of satisfaction when your words flow

You are my partner of whole life encouraging my stars
Your love gives eyes to night sky and not a cupid's war
You are celestial fate crossing sighs morphed into love
Your goddess eyes look after family as hands in glove

I want you to remain in my life, sublime power of a spirit
I love your physical body, you and sacred soul on merit
Let me tell, intimate touch is a bridge of kisses to inherit
Art of living I learned from while for kids you woolen knit

I am nothing without you and your touch makes me wise
I have many issues but I don't say, ''no'' my beautiful eyes
You have been more than a Guru to me, So I can't say no
Some believe in story of a movie some think Life is a show

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Shocks of ecstasy arouses
My demurring face as a camel
Walking into the storm of desert

The undulating paths swing in agony
As we embraced the brim of Niger sea
The journey to the point of no return

Gnarled us and crooked us in a shackles
Of chained poverty and shared corruption
Locked in a **** of one man's handbags

We still imbue courage as we walk
On the greenish infertile land
Control by family, friends and concubines

Woe to our stool of mystery
As we hope the secret of better life
relies on a selected messiah

It is I, it is we and it is you
That must prevail to slaughter
What imprison us

With a cast of casking ***
The long queues of twenty nineteen
Where our drunken journey ends

Written by
Martin Ijir

Akin to birch moments I do recall we share
Under jocund tree our teeth smile
Sharing dreams of unfulfilled years
All of a sudden hysteria aired in my heart's ears

Love I have fade
Queries you drop turns like hade
Base of our love capside into sands
Of time as a bleaching detergent upon a cloak

Your pink color turns grey
And white turns black
Void of happiness becomes lighted sadness
Reason is you hurt my feelings

Sun I wish never ever shines
So stars twinkling marjoram in your heart
Piercing you so deep that you feel what I feel
And the venom spreads across your veins so you know how real my love is

Written by
Martin Ijir

Her hips drive me crazy
Ebony skin radiant like sun on ocean
Penlike nose affixed glittery rings
Her beauty shines in my heart
Making me be a moon in her heart

And a sun in her breast
Into me I wish you're
For I am enchanted with beauty
It enthralled my wild imagination
As request of love daily pursue me

Into a grazing field I graze like cattle
Being selective breaks divine rule
So I want to embrace all at once
But I wish to be with you always
For you mark my heart with scars

As a tattoo your name engrave
Hold on in this sun romance
I see sparks of stars in your eye
Yes the eye of your heart
Adore me o queen of beauty

For your heart is so softy
And your name so flowery
Never will you fade
But be a shadow shade
Upon me in days of yore

You're my brew inspiration
And my **** for unending notion
Let me smoke and drink you
So my heart feel love adoration

Written by
Martin Ijir

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elegant eyesight
looking for guidance in life
White blossoms of the pear

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Your touch on my body as clouds floats in a deep valley
Teaching me how to feel lonely, simple sensitive pleasure

To know, how a wild peace Lily grows in an unknown alley
But these particular may not be mine to measure in leisure

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Try to do today something, which you have never done before
May be a mischievous act of nosy, posy or cozy, less or more

Remember a bud has a lot of pain in expanding to be a flower
But that's the real energy she inherited from the seedling hour

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Climbing on
Time
Smooth as silk thread
Reaching its roots
Like thirsty man looking for harbor
Floating on sea of words

Pouring
Nectar
On lips of silence
In forgotten temples
Imbibing inner honey

Taking away
Weight of Today's desires
From
Shoulder
To get freedom
From Expectation of Tomorrow

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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There is a wishing tree inside me
Love still survives between dark and dawn
But ancient hound is on haunt,

An old story of Pusy cat went up tree but
Sleeping tree is awakened now
Good times are coming ahead

My inner self is a true cosmic nest for all
Without any restriction of sun or shade
Birds come and make their nest freely

Birds are transient, migratory or from neighbor
They enjoy the seeds and fruits here and
Some of them breed here or flew after mating

Stranger meet here and become friends
I am a pillar of evergreen tree of tolerance
Blossoming buds bloom to wave, Hello!

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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enjoy, don't steal here
everything exists on earth
free air, light, water

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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eyes see
moonly face
misses the knife
In hand
Good intentions
Change hell
Into heaven
Touches soft,
Rough, tough
But
True
Existence

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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The words I said in the night
Echoed in the rising morning
In the valley of my turbulent mind
Why the words of love need hollow
To hear her past in future echo?

And the image of Narcisus
Reflects from wishful water was not so stupid
But the song of Solomon does not make me fool
May she kiss me with the kisses of her mouth!

For her love is better than wine
And make me glad in her fragrance

Just release through the holes of my pure flute
Your music, texture and weaving of untouched echo
Humor, wit, sensual or intellectual and all you know
But again the time repeated echo to echo burst
In my mind, place and soul of warm colored presence
Like a Truth as dark night follows the golden dawn

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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When you opened eyes
I greeted you with a Smile
It was not your need
But essence of ''I''

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Your reflection spreads in lake of heart
As soft cotton floats in fragrant breeze
Rejuvenates sky of mind and rock of Soul
Fills the void, vacuums and empty space

Strange white clouds come to become friends
After rain, hope to reach the shy rainbows, and
Fruits grow faster like poems in romantic poet
Sound of koel's kiss heals the past hurts

Somewhere in lonely house of sunny valley
A newly married couple is weaving fabrics of faith
They are of peace as the whole nature is calm
Shaping the skilled expedition of their future ski

To keep their deep lake of life without turbulence
To find the serenity in their celestial destiny and
To do anything to feel alive to oar the boat in storm
Being best rowers of time to push and move in water

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Sweatness of thoughts reviberate
As they pound so hard the thudding sounds echo in my heart
It is a new day, I've to face the new sun

Problems comes in a ton
Those I let go yesterday reinforce
Moments of joy wears sadness' force
And wishes of sun just fade in this eon

Today I become so courageous
Beating my chest and soaring so high
That those who lives well never better than me
Picking challenge to master my science of craft

For poetry is an alchemical science of words
Which wields inner world with subliminal words that light up the celestial bodies
Bringing earthly joy to mortals hearts

As I traverse on the water and burn in the fire of the words I test on a pad of thoughts. Poetry is what I face always
I dream poetry and eat in tomb of her plate with much ado love

Written by
Martin Ijir

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One winter night
You came in my life
when I was cold and alone

you are a gift to me
without any oasis
without any river
without any Orions light
without any sun
but
you are melting the ice
you're all the music
all the poems and
all the foods
Taste buds
after some guilty pleasures
illicit seduction stunning display
you make me king of your kingdom
Ever since
I have never been the same

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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Knowledge is light which perishes the darkness of ignorance
Ancient cries of old sky finds latest cheers to get an advance

Actors come on the stage with legend messages deliverance
To make amendments, since only a few get a second chance

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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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 like 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 the 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 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~~~

Moment of happiness
Rides us into the marshy runways
In joy we swim in freedom like fish
Shoulder high the water tap our body
Bringing unending joy in earnest
Like lovers that newly fall in love
So the joy of childhood glows
And hope this moment never cease to blow
Without hatred we dive in the row
Climbing ourselves as a flat car that needs a tow
That's how the joy of first rain in our hearts

Martin Ijir

A self confession
I have never seen
A rose flower
But I fall in love with her

I have never seen
A Jasmine flower
But I scent her in my soul

I have never seen
A beauty that entices
Me as my poems
Which contains her ******

Appearances
of all flowers that bloom
She lives in me
Soul to soul, heart to heart

Written by
Martin Ijir

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thinking change the mind
seasons bring mist clouds sun moon
Kids look to flowers

~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

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no one knows
the foggy dark night of
That weeping winter night
of our neighborhood
But something resembling your needs of summer
Maybe different from my youth of spring
But somewhat looking alike
Waiting for the dawn coming with rising Sun

Sometimes I cry when I live
Because fog is oozing spite of tears
Clothing chest to keep chest warm

Sometimes I need to wash my eyes naturally
With true-life poetry words to extinguish
The burning desires of impatience reaching to sky

Patience is the gift of wind, cloud, and mist
I will pass overabundance of this panacea to you
But I need to make through the fog with your help wrapped
In a perfect tear strokes to my cheek coming from your soul

Written by
~~~Jawahar Gupta~~~

Soil enwraps my eye
That I hardly see debris of truth
For I am coccoon in a shroud of terruric
Rays of poverty injection

So I choose to mastermind
My liberation as a jihadist course
Making my opposers pay for their sin
For it's the will of divine

I profess with indoctrination of small portion
As I cast voodoo of ignorance lotion
Upon my mind so it burns in elation
As I give in to suicidal notion

I await a divine gift of virgnity relation
Where my earthly reaction
Gives me unending position
Adorn without damnation

In there I laid in peace
As my torn skin pierce
With avidity of divine lies
So I give my eye in pieces

by
Martin Ijir