tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58670536571823533362024-02-07T03:15:59.553-08:00visionany picture comes to my mind,
i try to give it a body of words,
love to sit on other blooms,
for honey, color, fragrance........Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.comBlogger423125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-52584253934648441252016-08-28T00:41:00.001-07:002016-08-28T00:41:08.475-07:00New Address<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am now writing @<br />
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https://gangulisumana60.wordpress.com/<br />
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my new blog address :)</div>
Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-74015518842249988892016-06-01T06:24:00.001-07:002016-06-01T06:24:38.622-07:00My Parents<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Wikipedia_Children's_Day.png/180px-Wikipedia_Children's_Day.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Wikipedia_Children's_Day.png/180px-Wikipedia_Children's_Day.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Courtesy: Poets United</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
you two fought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you
never knew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">how
I burnt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
your wrath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
was a water body,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">too
brine to taste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
the Kal-boishakhi<b><span style="color: red;">*</span></b> days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">were
a sweet breeze to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
both of you sang together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">those
familiar songs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
our dear poet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though
I dare say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">your
voices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">were
song-worthy at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yet
each note bloomed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
still carry their fragrance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Violent thunderstorms
in the Gangetic plains of India are locally known as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Kal-Baisakhi</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or Nor'westers occurring from March
till Monsoon establishes over North-East India: Wikipedia</span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Posted for
Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Parents, Guardians, Significant Adults in the Lives of
Children @ <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.in/2016/06/poets-united-midweek-motif-parents.html">Poets United</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-84066438564358246422016-05-06T22:13:00.001-07:002016-05-07T09:36:20.686-07:00Scent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoOARRYoUHmtjXGV7WqVEDgc17MjjgNFx0U-z1J7Z5Fu9YjtaF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoOARRYoUHmtjXGV7WqVEDgc17MjjgNFx0U-z1J7Z5Fu9YjtaF" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=images+of+absolute+darkness&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&imgil=3HiLIAmHmQ_G0M%253A%253BtW0qL0P5IKL9GM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fsudlice.deviantart.com%25252Fart%25252FNoise-Of-Absolute-Darkness-271699517&source=iu&pf=m&fir=3HiLIAmHmQ_G0M%253A%252CtW0qL0P5IKL9GM%252C_&usg=__2f36tZC4pPq8IgxWOhCJQJRsKNE%3D&ved=0ahUKEwiN_IO3mMfMAhWMC44KHbZQDTAQyjcINA&ei=pHctV42aO4yXuAS2obWAAw#imgrc=3HiLIAmHmQ_G0M%3A">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
smell darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in
the bloody dawn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">when
tooth and nail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
man hunters<b><span style="color: red;">*</span></b>
glint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their
whispers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">reek
of gargantuan carcasses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">numbing
my nostrils.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Are the rose blooming days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a distant dream?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Recent Assembly election in my
State saw atrocities to rig polls by the ruling party who left no stone
unturned to resort to this violence. However in most cases the police and
military came to the rescue and people could vote though shooting and murders
could not be averted. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Posted for
Sanaa’s Prompt Nights – Nothing is more memorable than Scent @ <a href="http://www.adashofsunny.com/prompt-nights-nothing-is-more-memorable-than-scent-14/">A Dash Of Sunny</a><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United</span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-36539319146971348432016-04-13T01:38:00.001-07:002016-04-13T01:38:30.772-07:00Home of Memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Pahalgam_Valley.jpg/800px-Pahalgam_Valley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Pahalgam_Valley.jpg/800px-Pahalgam_Valley.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pahalgam_Valley.jpg">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have left my heart<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In Pahalgam</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lidder’s</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">**</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
wild songs<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Have stolen my soul <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I cached my dreams<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In pine forest<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On the mountain slope<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I let myself<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be Beauty struck<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In this fantasy land<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where every drop of life<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is sculpted from Charm<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They eddy in the mind<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I’ve brought them home<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where I have been living<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With memories alone<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a popular tourist destination in Kashmir<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">**</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a river in Kashmir<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Home<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-43044195076880355112016-04-11T21:56:00.002-07:002016-04-11T21:56:53.672-07:00Words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/130000/nahled/house-1441360863Gqi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/130000/nahled/house-1441360863Gqi.jpg" height="320" width="316" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=128064&picture=house">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has been almost three years that I have
built a home. Truly my heart belongs here. I could not have dreamt of such a
dwelling place had I lived a hundred years ago. My enchanting portal takes me
above cloud nine whenever I wish. Happiness is at my beck and call. It is no
Arabian tale but truth. Believe me; I see your smiling faces by my wondrous windows
every day. How can I forget how my chilly grieving bones received the suns you
gifted in the dark nights and stopped fragmenting? With an ear tuned to your
music, with an eye set to the word-fountain in your heart, I reside. So do you!
Don’t you? This solitary abode of mine vibrates with your presence. What about
yours? It’s good that we live on words. Our home is words. Our world is words.
We are words. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.” In the end there will be the Word too.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My bare boughs<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bathe in your sundrops<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shoots sprouting<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for Haibun Monday #11: Reach Out @ <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2016/04/11/haibun-monday-11-reach-out/">dVerse</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-53476833875406998032016-04-09T20:44:00.000-07:002016-04-09T22:35:06.932-07:00I Took You For Granted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/House_Sparrow_I_Picture_074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/House_Sparrow_I_Picture_074.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_Sparrow_I_Picture_074.jpg">Source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">I never imagined<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">One day you would be <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">A part of my yearning heart<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Little sparrow<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Even you carried song<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In your pulsating throat<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Even you!<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And I was deaf and blind<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To You<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Those man-made iron giants</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Have killed you<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Scared you away<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Hope you will never go the dodo way<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Hope you will never turn into words<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To be read only<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Never to be awakened<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">I pray to dawn<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To send me this feathery ball of life<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To sing and dance<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">As they did<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Only a few days ago<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Mobile Towers. Radiation from these is being blamed
for vanishing sparrows into thin air: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/Mobile-tower-radiation/articleshow/32348258.cms">Times of India</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Hannah’s hosting </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: lime;">Transforming with Nature’s Wonders</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> @ <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.in/2016/04/transforming-with-natures-wonders.html">RealToads</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-63860419868985627942016-04-09T00:21:00.002-07:002016-04-09T10:20:30.020-07:00Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In between glum sky<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And dewy eyed, listless Earth<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">My tulip dreams spread<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Grief is the shadowy hill<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The sole silent onlooker<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Sanaa’s Prompt Nights ~ Spring is the time of land’s awakening
[11] @ <a href="http://www.adashofsunny.com/category/prompt-nights/">A Dash Of Sunny</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United</span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-40203334082259063972016-04-06T01:43:00.001-07:002016-04-06T01:45:41.658-07:00Citizenship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
infinite canopy of responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Under
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Branch
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Play
with freedom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
at last<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Posted for
Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Citizenship @ Poet’s United<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-61686491985931435122016-04-03T00:13:00.002-07:002016-04-03T00:13:58.707-07:00Pilgrimage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The breathtaking Trikuta</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Mountain top<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Embracing the Vaishno Devi shrine<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Watched me<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As an equestrian<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Slowly but surely<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Climbing up<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Moonlight shawl all over<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Singing with other pilgrims<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walking, riding or in palanquins<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In praise of the Mother<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The breathtaking Trikuta Mountain top<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Embracing the Vaishno Devi shrine<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Waited with bated breath<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For me and others<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To cover those uphill serpentine 14 km
pathway<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sloughing off the material self<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Being prayer itself<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To offer our prayers<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To Mother Vaishno Devi</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And return safely<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Which we did<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Trikuta is located in Jammu, which is one of the
three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost State
in India. <span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vaishno_Devi_Entrance.jpg">Trikuta</a></span>, <span style="color: red;">the
triple peak</span>, is where the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi can be found. More
than 10 million pilgrims visit this shrine every year: <span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishno_Devi">Wikipedia</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, at the hotel after whole-night-walking</td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for Poetry Pantry #296 @ <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.in/">Poets United</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-27320804538343058222016-03-30T08:09:00.001-07:002016-03-31T20:21:33.508-07:00Sigh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The thirty year old young man<b><span style="color: red;">*</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whom you called ‘Cyclonic Monk’?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To whom you said “We’ve come to you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As we would go to Jesus”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He told you, “If only I could set you free like Him”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Do you remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The thirty year old young man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whose love flowed in the words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“My sisters and brothers of America”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And you flowed towards him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For the sake of a touch of his godly hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Do you remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The thirty year old young man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whose words deluged America<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was one 11<sup>th</sup> September, 1893<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At Parliament of Religions in Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was you who said, “He is Strength and Love
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Love bloomed then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An epoch making nineties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of the Nineteenth Century<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Posted for Susan’s Midweek motif ~ Ninety / The Nineties @ <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.in/2016/03/poets-united-midweek-motif-ninety.html">Poets United</a><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">Shared with Open Link Night # 169 @ <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2016/03/31/open-link-night-169/">dVerse</a></span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-24989616364961175232016-03-05T21:31:00.000-08:002016-03-05T21:35:05.861-08:00Extremes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You live in the extreme<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When you live without darkness<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet beauty envelops knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And you yearn for escapades<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Courting chaos<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Like Helen did<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You live in the extreme<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When you live without light<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until knowledge illumines<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So that you can feel a word<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Even the abstract ones<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By a simple touch<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Like Helen did<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helen_Keller_and_Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg">source</a></td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Kerry’s hosting Flash 55 Plus! @ <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.in/2016/03/flash-55-plus.html">Real Toads</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-68456398705750353922016-03-05T02:17:00.003-08:002016-03-05T02:17:46.338-08:00This Poem is an Artist, a Rainbow, a Forest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-beauty-of-nature-rainbow-gum-forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-beauty-of-nature-rainbow-gum-forest.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/01/living-rainbow-rainbow-eucalyptus-most-beautiful-tree-bark-on-earth-36-pics/">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a color happy Artist<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a rainbow born from a seed<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a forest of fairy tale trees<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-most-colorful-tree-in-the-world.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-most-colorful-tree-in-the-world.jpg" height="260" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/01/living-rainbow-rainbow-eucalyptus-most-beautiful-tree-bark-on-earth-36-pics/">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is an abstract art<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A canvas with crazy hues<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Each color vying with the other<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To dazzle and hypnotize you<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The invisible brush in Her hand<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paints with strokes and splatters<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To make you marvel at Her mastery<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a color happy Artist<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rainbow-eucalyptus-or-rainbow-gum-peeling-like-paint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rainbow-eucalyptus-or-rainbow-gum-peeling-like-paint.jpg" height="262" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/01/living-rainbow-rainbow-eucalyptus-most-beautiful-tree-bark-on-earth-36-pics/">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is Eucalyptus deglupta<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Birthed from cracking a seed<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It races towards the sky in no time<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It yearns to touch its love hidden there<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">While its bark peels like paint<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It morphs into a solid rainbow itself<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With strong roots well grounded<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a rainbow born from a seed<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rainbow-eucalyptus-truly-one-of-the-most-amazingly-beautiful-rainbow-colored-trees-on-earth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rainbow-eucalyptus-truly-one-of-the-most-amazingly-beautiful-rainbow-colored-trees-on-earth.jpg" height="322" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/01/living-rainbow-rainbow-eucalyptus-most-beautiful-tree-bark-on-earth-36-pics/">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a spectacular forest<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An almost impossible treescape <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of living and scintillating rainbows <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One might mistake it for Eden<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though there’s no fruit for Adam or Eve<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But the dreams of others grow unhindered<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And reality stands on the threshold of dream<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a forest of fairy tale trees<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Magical-looking-forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Magical-looking-forest.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/01/living-rainbow-rainbow-eucalyptus-most-beautiful-tree-bark-on-earth-36-pics/">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a tale of Nature as an abstract
artist<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a ground born rainbow dreaming
high<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This poem is a dream of a forest of fairy
tale trees<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is my attempt at <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.in/2014/07/sundays-mini-challenge-boomerang.html">Hannah Gosselin’sBoomerang Metaphors</a></span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">]</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for Sanaa’s <a href="http://www.adashofsunny.com/prompt-nights-when-besotted-with-green-8/">Prompt Nights</a> – When besotted with Green [8]<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-48897430548703432712016-03-02T01:22:00.000-08:002016-03-02T01:22:12.942-08:00My Flower<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A flower was offered to me,<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It was the spirit of beauty<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With its petals of innocence<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It whispered in fragrance<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To forget it never<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As it won’t last forever<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When the scented days were spent<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I realized what My flower meant<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for Poets United Midweek Motif ~ A Flower Was Offered To Me<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-34622756264559843252016-02-28T01:52:00.000-08:002016-02-28T02:24:18.621-08:00Politics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Caricature_gillray_plumpudding.jpg/800px-Caricature_gillray_plumpudding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Caricature_gillray_plumpudding.jpg/800px-Caricature_gillray_plumpudding.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caricature_gillray_plumpudding.jpg">Source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Lots of plots <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To coil and clot<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Toil hard<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Not to spoil<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">No need to guard<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The slot of lips<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Lisp<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Slop words<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Over the tongue edge<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Lop off truth<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">That MiGhT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Be the TrUmp card<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Solicit supPort<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Stop not<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Till the top is reached<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Politics Tick</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Posted for Sunday Mini-Challenge: FASHION ME
YOUR WORDS ~ Pierrot Granade hosted by Gillena @ <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.in/">Real Toads</a></span></b></div>
Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-54432714999896867592016-02-26T08:03:00.000-08:002016-02-26T20:57:43.152-08:00Take me to the Ocean<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.adashofsunny.com/category/prompt-nights/">Courtesy: A Dash of Sunny</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Once upon a time<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">I took my soul<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To seaside<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The lonely shore<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Lay quietly<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In the fading night<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">We sat there<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Face to face<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Wordless<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">All on a sudden<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">My soul stretched its hand<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Plucked the pink pulsating sun</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">From dawn<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">“It’s God’s heart.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Keep it inside you” said my soul<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">“I will scoop a handful of stars<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">From the night sky <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And the evening breeze too” It continued<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">But…for what?<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">“They are keepsakes. Don’t let them out.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Except if they want to come out on their own”<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">They were indeed<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">A very different </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">sunrise</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And evening breeze<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And unusually twinkling stars<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">They live in me<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Occasionally they come out<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">As words<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Sanaa’s Picture Prompt ~ Take me to the Ocean [7] @ <a href="http://www.adashofsunny.com/category/prompt-nights/">Prompt Nights</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Sharing it with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United</span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-27320592787252212572016-02-24T04:18:00.000-08:002016-02-24T04:18:31.298-08:00Martyr<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg/800px-David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg/800px-David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg">source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How much greater the world would be<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If there were no cause for martyrdom<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Humans in power are a different race<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Their insatiably flaming hunting spree <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Makes truth seekers their big game<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From Socrates to Jeanne d’Arc<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To Bhagat Singh to Martin Luther King<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The chase curiously involves all colors<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now the Eye is on the most coveted trophy<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This blithe, buoyant, warbling Earth<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All songs will stop and fire will rage<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Love with glass stare will be in cage<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Before the specters will hang the precious
prize<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There won’t ever be another “human sunrise”<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The quote is from Alice Walker’s poem ~ Our Martyr<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Martyrdom / Witness @ <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.in/2016/02/poets-united-midweek-motif-martyrdom.html">Poets United</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-50865676370457948172016-02-22T23:13:00.001-08:002016-02-22T23:13:26.343-08:00Bubble<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dversepoets.com/2016/02/22/quadrille-3/#comments">photo by de jackson</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The dancing bubbly lips<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Are in constant hurry<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They often forget to fill<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The words with soul<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The light phrases float<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Enjoy their moment’s stay<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Die leaving an air of sigh<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Words that birth<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From mighty pen<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Are nuggets of gold<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To live forever</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is inspired by the Tibetan proverb "<span style="color: red;">Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.</span>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Posted
for <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2016/02/22/quadrille-3/#comments">dVerse Quadrille 3</a> the word to play with is <b>Bubble</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-43902893850368316422016-02-19T23:41:00.000-08:002016-02-20T07:38:52.120-08:00Draupadi*<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ouocblog.blogspot.in/2015/06/image-disrobing-of-draupadi.html">Source</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Whoever thought<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">That a fire born dusky beauty<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Would have such grace, dignity, love <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Encased in heart<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">It was natural for her to wield power<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">But how well she knew<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">When not to use it<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Her pearl teeth, lightning smile,<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Blue lotus fragrance<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Kindled fire in many a heart<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Her father wanted a son<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Of sacrificial fire<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To avenge his fury<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Her father had not asked for her<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Yet along with her brother<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Draupadi stepped out of the flaming petals<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Born in full bloomed youth<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Panchali, daughter of the king of Panchal<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">She became<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Her father had locked her<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In a strange marriage</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">With five brothers<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">By fate, truly, by kismet<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Five exiled princes they were<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Five valiant youths<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Five consorts!<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">But happiness was at the beck and call<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Of her champak petal fingers<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">She breathed trust and harmony<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">She was the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To her beloveds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Exiled life with the sun, moon, stars and
forest ended<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">With the kingdom, returned, layered evils<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">She reduced her foes to ashes<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">But not before she paid the price<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Of being violated in court<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Being disrobed while her consorts sat<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Hanging their heads in shame<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Having lost the power to speak up<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Having seen her all five sons slain<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Through the passage of <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">A bloody war among kith and kin<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Though she was the stormy inspiration<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To her husbands in the battlefields<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">She always kept the flame of forbearance,<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Self esteem, forgiveness, compassion<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Bright in the dark hours<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">She still lives in the breath of Nirbhaya**<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In all corners of the Earth<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">*Draupadi is described as the Tritagonist in
the epic The Mahabharata. According to the epic she is the fire born daughter
of Drupada the king of Panchal and also became the common wife of the five
Pandavas. Wikipedia<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">**meaning fearless girl, also referring to
the paramedical student in Delhi who was gang raped and later succumbed to her
injuries in spite of her brave fights.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Sanaa’s prompt Myth @ <a href="http://www.adashofsunny.com/on-popular-demand-when-poetry-meets-myth-2/">A Dash Of Sunny</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Sharing it with Poetry Pantry #290 @ Poets United</span></i></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-6473240887675771802016-02-16T22:56:00.001-08:002016-02-17T04:05:16.630-08:00Marriage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In the morning<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To drink a steaming cup of love together<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">During the day<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To be the rock in the sun and storms hand in
hand<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">In the twilight hours<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">To see in each other’s eyes of the starlit
dream on the night shore <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Marriage @ <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.in/2016/02/poets-united-midweek-motif-marriage.html">Poets United</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-37375878223756749942016-02-16T12:10:00.004-08:002016-02-16T12:10:43.869-08:0032 sq. ft.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSP3GpIKaXxAwfZrN5-1U39-YMIpJfZhaPj9L2J_bpuX_Hs51sGoRE1tTjloswI8KzHyHCqx671iVG7YzGGWl2zInHfHlayYtRuTLyCSXJo522hRBl80jyf7PgHst7UY0gkQwC8jt3BVry/s1600/DSCN1250+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSP3GpIKaXxAwfZrN5-1U39-YMIpJfZhaPj9L2J_bpuX_Hs51sGoRE1tTjloswI8KzHyHCqx671iVG7YzGGWl2zInHfHlayYtRuTLyCSXJo522hRBl80jyf7PgHst7UY0gkQwC8jt3BVry/s320/DSCN1250+-+Copy.JPG" width="291" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Shrine</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This space of a room<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On the second floor<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With a wooden door<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Opening to a terrace<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And with a small glass window<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An entry way<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To a strip of the blue sky<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Waits for me<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every dawn and dusk<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I know<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My deities dwell there<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They are my family members<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cutest of them is my baby Gopala<span style="color: red;">*</span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I bathe him <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Feed him<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dress him<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Daily<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As incense sticks spill fragrance<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I take my seat on the asana<span style="color: red;">**</span>cross legged<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With eyes closed<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The shrine showers silence to the mind<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Stopping slithering thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To rare hood<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Their fading fangs<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Make room<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For the Name of God<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Name<span style="color: red;">***</span>calms
me down<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I wait for the deity <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To step on my lotus heart<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This room is my refuge……. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaboaTsWEyQ01W4VDDMrWhXqTRUpmaQMKaHhNFllyDzXsJ6pmMDcl9BrSj-nKtWUu-YRd4OUdRCfguCs0jt_eWA4XP2wmzOmTqkwmjbA2dS75Tk-pubC7x7j7Olc7x0WEXRfX3Q8FfqL_5/s1600/DSCN1248+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaboaTsWEyQ01W4VDDMrWhXqTRUpmaQMKaHhNFllyDzXsJ6pmMDcl9BrSj-nKtWUu-YRd4OUdRCfguCs0jt_eWA4XP2wmzOmTqkwmjbA2dS75Tk-pubC7x7j7Olc7x0WEXRfX3Q8FfqL_5/s320/DSCN1248+-+Copy.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Gopala</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">*</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gopala is the baby form of Lord Krishna. Since it’s a baby it needs to be
taken care of just as a baby in the family<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">**</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">asana is the mat for praying<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">***</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Hindus practice Japa which is a spiritual discipline involving the
meditative repetition of a mantra or name of a divine power. Wikipedia.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for dVerse Poetics - Room With or Without a View<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-23490227749171760122016-02-13T02:48:00.000-08:002016-02-13T03:00:35.846-08:00Love / 14 Feb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">These words come to me when I think of love<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">I see kaleidoscopes of teens in street<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Wearing courage, smile they flutter and flit<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Drunk in honey words, pairs of cooing doves<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Devi Saraswati<span style="color: red;">*</span> and the Saint above<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Indulge, smile, bless making hearts to be lit<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">These words come to me when I think of love<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">I see kaleidoscopes of teens in street<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Many firsts happen on the Day of Love<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Living in a cloud cuckoo land is sweet<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">For the enlightened hearts there is no pit<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">That key of prudence not all of them have<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">These words come to me when I think of love<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Form: Rondel<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;">*</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Devi Saraswati is the goddess
of learning, enlightenment and knowledge<b>.
</b> In West Bengal,<b><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Saraswati</span></b> is
worshipped on Vasant Panchami, a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the
5th day in the Hindu calendar month of Magha (about February). Hindus celebrate
this festival in temples, homes and educational institutes alike. Wikipedia.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">The day has become the Bengali Valentine Day.
Specially the school and college goers are in ecstatic mood with no studies and
all friendship(!).<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tonight,
I want each and every one of you to close your eyes and write the first thing
that comes to mind when you think about Love……”, Sana says. I did just that.</span></span></h3>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Also sharing with Poetry Pantry @ <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.in/">Poets United</a></span></i><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-4712628418249983732016-02-12T01:33:00.000-08:002016-02-12T01:33:14.944-08:00Winter Skips Bengal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mischievous
is truant winter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
its feet ready to drop out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pursing
its warm lips in a pout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Runs
the errant child of Nature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">El
Nino is its dearest peer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Holding
hands they joyfully shout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mischievous
is truant winter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
its feet ready to drop out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Green
parrots now are in despair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Date
palm sap forgot to drip out*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
failed to meet its needs no doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
it flees and elsewhere loiters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mischievous
is truant winter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">*In winter a slit is made into the date palm
tree for the sap to drip out and collect into a pot to be made into jaggery by
heating (During summer the heat at night makes the sap rancid and alcoholic).This
is known as Nolen Gurh in Bengal, a winter delicacy. But this year we almost had
a warm December and topsy turvy weather because of El Nino.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2016/02/11/meeting-the-bar-the-rondel/">dVerse MTB</a>; The Rondel<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All we need is <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To let in<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A patch of sky<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A big Heart<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To let go<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scratches<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tagged to this life<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A little Fire<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To keep the wheels<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of the days<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Moving<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A teeny tiny<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My space<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To read and write<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And not to forget<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Shrine<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To talk to God<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the calm and stormy night<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">dVerse Poetics</a> ~ As the Cookies
Crumble<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I used the 3<sup>rd</sup> fortune strip as my
title as well<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-11406044998271639822016-02-09T21:57:00.001-08:002016-02-09T21:57:48.135-08:00Different Worlds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The empty chair<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The hardened ball point pen<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The diary sighing over the white pages left<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Rows of eager books on the shelves<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The bone-china cup with a smiling Mickey<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The brocaded salwar-suit <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The Kolapuri sandal<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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And<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The neighborhood birds<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Miss her<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Stoic rock<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Sits on the Atrayee* bank<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">*A river in our hometown<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Posted for Poets United Midweek Motif ~ The Inanimate And The Non-Human<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Sumana Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867053657182353336.post-48664393550283526302016-02-09T01:07:00.000-08:002016-02-09T01:07:00.292-08:00Our State Will Go To Poll Shortly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Black days to arrive soon<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When will ensue<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Battle of words<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wrong, right<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serrated and Blunt<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By Right and Left<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To lull the people <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Into bizarre numbness<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dazed mass will vote<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Will be in the limbo of a lull<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tough times ahead<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Posted for <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2016/02/08/11556/">dVerse</a> ~ Quadrille – 2 and the
chosen word is <span style="color: red;">Lull</span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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