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Sonnet: Parents, Neglect Not Thy Children

Parents, tend thou to thy children with care;
Children are now more precious than before;
Like diamond brooch in necklaces, they are;
The family has become nuclear to core.

These are the days of small a family norm;
Accidents kill more than diseases can;
Pampered, unloved remain children in form;
Spare not the rod and spoil not child, O man.

What is the use of all thy hard-earned wealth?
Teach them the sense of values in their life;
Important is their body’s/ mind’s/ soul’s health;
Their problems own, they must face that are rife.

Excessive love will spoil its good purpose;
Too much of shade too makes a plant’s growth worse.

poem by John Celes
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Why? I Wonder

Why? I wonder
Why?
Of all the
Living and Loving
Talking and walking
In this crowd of world.
a part of me has
Always remained
Untouched,
Uncared,
Unloved,
unattended for?

Why? I wonder
Why?
Of all the
Giving and Taking,
Laughing and grieving,
In this crowd of world
a part of me has

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poem by Anjali Kakati
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Early Works - Delusion

A light through the passing darkness
breaks the empty black that surrounds.
A fleeting seconds brightness
that flourishes for a while
then dies as it began in the black.

Thorns sharp, piercing,
protecting, attacking
hands soft warm caressing
bleed to the touch
pain penetrating
deep to this soul.

Life hard, bitter, unhappy
long foreboding
time unending non existent
a train without reason
human being, cold, hard, cruel,
sympathetic and understanding.

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poem by David Harris
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Love

Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
Where that comes in that shall not go again;
Love sells the proud heart's citadel to Fate.
They have known shame, who love unloved. Even then,
When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking,
And agony's forgot, and hushed the crying
Of credulous hearts, in heaven - such are but taking
Their own poor dreams within their arms, and lying
Each in his lonely night, each with a ghost.
Some share that night. But they know love grows colder,
Grows false and dull, that was sweet lies at most.
Astonishment is no more in hand or shoulder,
But darkens, and dies out from kiss to kiss.
All this is love; and all love is but this.

poem by Rupert Brooke (1913)
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I Am......Therefore, I Feel! !

I am a child, lost in a strange and frightening world,
A refugee in a time of trouble.
I gaze upon the faces in a hostile crowd:
An orphan, whose home is a pile of rubble.

See me!

I am the victim of habitual abuse, crying for help
Though there's no-one to hear.
I cry myself to sleep each night
But can find no help or solace here.

Hear me!

I am the invisible person, unnoticed, unloved
Never showing the pain inside
Of having no-one there to come home to.
You'll never know the tears I've cried.

Touch me!

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poem by Dawn Ferrett
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Shiver

Shiver,
that's what it did to her
sitting naked
in that river,

wanting to get back
to nature, as her mother
has told her:
get back to as it was girl,

rid yourself
of all that filth,
all that vanity,
all that god darn

modern take on beauty.
Shiver,
that's what it did her
lying nude

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poem by Terry Collett
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Elephant

Hating you is easy

Because I have loved you with equal measure

Known the art of dissapointment when left behind to ponder on a rainy

afternoon

The elephant that's sitting on the sofa in the middle of the room

Today it's me and him you left us long ago

To work out what is left of the happy ever after, not quite so

So I am courteous and polite and give the elephant a drink

From a large red plastic bucket that I filled up at the sink

He tells me in a whisper you've been seeing someone else

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poem by Yvette Smith
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Have Fun Then

what is your wish?
i wish to die as soon as possible

why do you wish death?
it is certain
other wishes do not come true
so i grab this
certain, inevitable wish
that will always come
true

why are you saying this?
i just said it
why are you saying this?
it is not nonsense

why are you saying this?
don't ask me
and so where are you going?
i don't really know

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Tragedy of Being Human

I'm human,
I cry a lot,
I think a lot,
Because the answers,
Come in spurts, if ever,
Or Never.

I'm human,
And I want to know why,
People have to die,
Or be killed?
No crime committed,
As if they were a helpless Fly,
I cry.

I'm human,
And I wonder why
We Love?
And look towards the sky,
Trying to understand,

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poem by Sandra Feldman
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Everything I Love

Dip your dreams in the slain blood society has poured
In the vampire streets of dying innocence,
Where hoodlums and whores practice gratuitous violence in the soulless city,
Where angels never existed and fallen roses from a lover’s bouquet
Have thorns sharper than razor blades
And mercilessly pierce
Everyone naively moving
To a destiny of eventual extinction;
Families perish beside Christmas trees
In perpetual fragility.
On the eve of disintegration,
Shattered ornaments
Rip into the flesh of unloved children
And empty stockings turn into a hangman’s noose,
Nightmares explode into hopeless minds
With blinding visions of fear,
Everything I hate is real,
And everything I love has disappeared.

poem by Uriah Hamilton
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