Vive La France!

With echoing effect colourful bon-fires were burning
To celebrate National Day of France in Pondicherry
That kept the crowd in the beach spell bound for long!

The erstwhile colony of France is this French town
Full of European architectural beauty and green park
People like to enjoy by cosmopolitan culture forever!

Most civilised country in the world France preached
Democracy by the famous slogans of Rousseau like
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity India cherishes most!

Bon ami of French culture and international brotherhood
Of India keep both the countries natural friends forever
Flourishing humanism as an example to all world nations!

Vive la France French nationals along with Indians say
To strength the bond between two bon ami forever and ever!

poem by Ramesh T A
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Of Great Humanistic Deeds

The last of a glistening feasting,
Eye popping as is visioned,
Ends.

The pomp and circumstance of it,
Had lifted all imaginations above and beyond...
Staged conflicts.
Ushering the unannounced arrival,
Of a global higher consciousness.

Disagreements argued,
Are stopped to be put on hold.
Warring nations and economic devastation...
Kept frozen to behold,
Exquisite elegance.
At a calculated expense...
That enriches to heights,
Those royalistic dreams.

William, Harry...

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A Valley Of No Flowers

Pranab k c
08/2011

The valley never gets free from its glory
grey its wide openness never hides death
from its extreme interior of visibility
and metaphorical existence

My ancestors once played their flute to salute the peak
high so high the stiff never kept their feet anymore
only light they seen as we the worthless parasites
yet find flickering truth to burst ourselves with pride

The valley never ends its utterly paradox to greet again
when mermaids hallucinating watery surface to swim
a light of deeming dusk playing a gallop to hold our reign
mighty strength the dancing horses no more on the ground

a beautiful paranoia with its suddenness
calls the trip to hooting

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poem by Pranab K. Chakraborty
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Demeaning God

Mother Nature and Father Time, are wacky forces of man’s design,
By fallen man as a substitute, for God as an unbelievable resolute;
We can’t forget Old Man Winter; he is one more deceptive splinter,
In that spiritual coffin they make, when The Lord God they forsake.

Warm and fuzzy terms conceived, for a God they haven’t believed,
The created forces in their mind, as they shove the Creator behind,
Left behind and forgotten by men, whose ideas God will condemn,
Thinking that Satan has conceived, so those men will be deceived.

It is just what Satan wants to see, throughout all of fallen humanity,
Mankind dismissing God above, replaced by images they think of,
Perpetuating a vain, humanist view, of everything that God can do,
Acting as if God does not exist, while in their unbelief they persist.

Thinking that God can be ignored, no thought is given to our Lord,
Regarding God, their thoughtlessness, reflects spiritual ignorance,
As they report to understand, but, never acknowledge God’s hand,
In the things He controls each day, reflected in the words they say.

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God created world

Alas! God created world
But He remained with different people in different fold
At some place he was Jesus and at some places he was Allah
So the people prayed differently in his honor with hurrah

We were same in his eyes but he created difference
Some one he made rich and some one poor by chance
Some places so hot and some very cold
So the people observed different pattern as was told

It is good to hear in right spirit
But on the name of religion some people may prefer not to greet
Black and white, lower and upper, shall remain for ever
Idealistic people may be praised but may find no shelter

Why then hatred in the name of religion?
He remained with them in different regions
Under different name and with different faith
But with only one fear that was not come as death

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poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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Come Join Us

The Savage of Brave New World amidst the state in bed with the pharmaceutical industries where everyone is controlled, unnatural eating GMO's. The food industry controlling everyone's food, fighting labeling, growth hormones, chemicals. Corporations with the rights of an individual. Churches telling everyone the evil is over there like in 1984. Everything an apparatus of the state like Dosotoevsky...'s Grand Inquisitor. The Nephilim and the nihilists mixing DNA and genetic cyber beings. We are born into a world of tentacles and some are still trying to tell you we are going to bring it back by secular humanism….this world is coming to the Great Tribulation of the Bible and Jesus Christ is still the light of the world. Join us and if we die in the Coliseums of the Roman oppression so be it for eternal life is waiting. Be apart of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. joe

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How to Make Mistakes

Any one came make a mistake
but few know how to do it expertly.

Since I have so much experience here
I offer then
to provide
a primer
such that you can abide
in my attempts
to upgrade
the caliber
of the mistakes you make.

First communicate about your mistakes
you'll find millions
who then become your friends
you'll learn to laugh and cry with them
and so understand that
on Earth
Mistakers are the majority

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Hand Some Heals Some Kills

hand-some heals some kills

golden mirror from seoul korea
beauty of seoul korea is here in India through the winds
through your mind through my mind
in kimono so kind
shinto to her ancestoral artistry

a numbened geisha plays on her harp
enlivening us

I looked through the golden mirror
The golden life of others’ lives

My numbened face
guillotined
glows beneath
Scars and scares from some hands that has hatred
Sabbath from hand in some that heals

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poem by Lovita J R Morang
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0374 Seasonal greetings to...

In the spirit of the season
I'm working on a big-hearted,
multi-faith, inter-faith, lack-of-faith
religiously correct yet thinking outside the box (6 x 2)
all-inclusive but not syrupy or anodyne
seasonal greetings card
(or will the mention of season
offend non-seasonalists?)

here's the draft but no doubt
it'll draw comment.. feel free..

Seasonal greetings to All whom
I usually ignore:

Greetings to all our enemies -
please don't abandon your principles, I'm not asking that, but
can we draw a little nearer this year?

Greetings to all pagans -

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An interview for Hangman

'Yes, your qualifications are more than enough,
But you have skipped purposely the mandatory question.
What is your religion? '
He said; 'Humanism'
'There is no religion called on such 'ism'.
'Yes, it's everywhere but nobody aware.'
'Sorry Mr.So & So and we cannot offer you the job unless you fill one of the religions.'
'Then you write down, favoritism Sir.
And I have a dilemma perhaps you may have an answer in your heavy books.
When a person dies if he requests the life once again? '

* I dedicate this poem to my friend the silent songster Denis Joe.

[You conjure a poignant observation of hypocrisy and prejudice which is present in any ism. I especially enjoyed the line of questioning 'ism 'and the arrival of favoritism which is the prevalent ingredient of predominance. History and religion is written and exercised by the victors. You my perspicuous friend are truly a Sage. Your friend, George]

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Beginning In The House of God

Friend God’s Judgment shall begin, within the very House of God,
As He lifts high, against her sin, His Standard and Righteous Rod,
For far too often believers tolerate, within their hearts and their life,
The many sins God does hate, that cause the Body pain and strife.

We forget His Righteous Decrees, even though we belong to Him.
Going on in life just how we please, while falling back into old sin.
It’s not done with any evil intent, but, just sins that still have a grip,
This with that old humanistic bent, and back into old ways we slip.

The sin of gossip, just simple talk, can tarnish a testimony friend,
As it also corrupt a believer’s walk, while hurting others in the end.
Going where we should not go, The Holy Spirit hears and grieves,
As that subtle sin begins to grow, and other sin it now conceives.

Strong anger then begins to flare, and this, inside another’s heart,
And one who simply had no care, before that gossip had its start.
The question this is sure to raise, as one’s heart begins to search,
Does it bring God any praise, in the Body called Christ’s Church?

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Followed Not God

The Lord God supports Believers, but not the many pagans at large,
Those who tend to follow deceivers, and unbelief will be their charge.
They had not believed or followed, Jesus Christ, who’s Lord over all,
But have only spiritually wallowed, in the deceit left from Adam’s fall.

Many gripped in humanistic views, from what fallen people proclaim,
Then rejecting God’s Good News, never embrace The Savior’s Name.
The simple fact that goes denied, of why those men spiritually stray,
Is indeed their religious pride, promoting them to want their own way.

Pride was also Satan’s big mistake, when he served The Lord above,
It was pride that led him to forsake, The Creator’s care and His Love.
And facing eternal darkness now, Satan prompts the lost to engage,
In all the spiritual whys and how, so they too see God’s eternal rage.

Friend, it is that pride in everyone, indeed, everyone upon this earth,
That keeps them from God’s Son, accepting from Him second birth,
A spiritual birth, into God’s Truth, through His Blessed Gospel Light,
Saving men from eternal reproof, as He saves them out of the night.

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Former Days

We were blessed in former days, because of many righteous ways,
As God was exalted in the Nation, and we leaned on His Revelation,
But, today we’re void of Holy Scripture, as God is not in the picture,
The times get darker every day, as the Nation chooses a darker way.

As sin’s darkness riddles the land, the Lord waits with Uplifted Hand.
Not for blessing, but for worse, as this land is captive to sin’s curse,
Many have led with amoral thought, and perverseness it has wrought,
Humanistic men have us on a path, not for blessing, but God’s wrath.

What many souls, think not of, is The Righteous God reigning above,
A Holy God Who doesn’t change, as His Standard remains the same,
So if iniquity continues to assail, God’s Righteous Justice will prevail,
Holy God will accept sin, never, and with man, He won’t strive forever.

True Godly reverence, there is but a trace, in a land blessed by Grace,
The Lord is simply not feared by many, in a land of wealth and plenty,
Even by many, who know the Lord, some scripture, still goes ignored,
Creating much uncertainty and unrest, in a land that has been blessed.

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Where Credit Is Due

We must give credit, where it is due, for the devil lies to me and you,
Distorting man’s true knowledge of, the Lord God who reigns above.
Many intelligent peoples today, by the Father of Lies are lead astray,
Discounting all the evidence of God, with a shaky but, skeptical nod.

God is apparent to every Nation, through the witness of His Creation,
However, the very creation many deny, using science to cover the lie,
Many reduce God’s power we see, down to a vain scientific theology,
Ideas that entangle many a believer, in the lies of the mighty deceiver.

That deceiver even employs politics, to create for us a humanistic fix,
A body to address ills of the world, with every UN resolution unfurled.
Missing is an acknowledgement of, a Sovereign God, reigning above,
As wicked men pen failing solutions, with empty and dark resolutions.

Satan even uses everyday situations, to chart his deceptive creations,
Sowing in many hearts mistrust, for the only One who’s Eternally Just,
Swaying a heart to taint their mind, painting God as one who’s unkind,
Wanting all on an unbelieving path, to see not God’s Love, but, Wrath.

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Missing Script (Not In Verse)

Rising
From a tribal mindset
To a politically conscious society
With rights and responsibilities
Defined is how this community will grow.
Being ethnocentric is not in the interest of any one
Except for keeping an identity and feeling of togetherness
The collective aim here is to advance in minds and spirit
From the basic humanism
To a conscious achievement of well defined objectives
We shall neither be the battle fields
Nor cannon fodder for global
Regional and local designs
Waziristan is our motherland
And carries to us the holiness of any sacred land
We some times must respect the wisdom of elders
And also some distinguished persons
Who are giving exposure to our youth
Both at the national level and international level
Poverty lack of education unemployment

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Yom HaShoa

There are things
which people never discuss,
like wickedness and destruction
and loss of humanity
that comes with hate.

It’s funny how people
loose sight of God
and declare wars in His name
and kill the innocent in office towers
and lose all humanness.

I could never understand
why like animals,
people have been kept in camps.
Even my great grandmother
died in a British concentration camp
and the names of the predecessors
of many Afrikaners,
stays written on their harts.

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Peace-Filled Oneness

In commemoration World Poetry Day – 21 March

Everywhere, every day, the play of life and death
We come across killings with hatred and revenge
We come across disparity between human faiths
These ills do not fade, but still sail with fleeting age.

If we sail on the waves of fruitful humane bond
One can unravel a world; peaceful and pleasing
By virtue of which, one can enrich universal blend
And, pave a way to conquer poverty and suffering.

Fulfilment of one’s selfish desires, promotes egoism
In turn, it turns our successes into startling failures;
With self-imposed goals if one degrades humanism
The consequence plunges us into the vortex of hatred.

It’s the poet, yes, whose poetical themes help in
To fortify the fading hopes and joys in one and all;
Eradicating disparities of race, religion and region

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poem by Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy (March 2017)
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Just Trust

No need to think more or remain skeptics
There are natural phenomena and basics
Sky remain high and over head
Guide us to remain firm, to look high and lead

Every object is of high importance
God has created it for us at once
Let us pray almighty and demonstrate our allegiance
It is His creation and let us have no negligence

Everything around provides us the strength
Provide we communicate and pick the correct length
Does the tree shadow not teach us to think of variance?
Trust on self and reasonably think of good reliance

Why do the people go for morning walk?
Why do they prefer silence and have less talk?
It is because morning breeze is good for health
It can’t be compensated even with enormous wealth

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poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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The Revolution is a Whore

The revolution is a whore and is over! all secular humanist movements have failed, it's over on a physical plain. The biggest lie of all is that the problem is always political and the system when in it is actually human nature. All modern philosophy, psychology, sociology and anthropology tries to say it is the environment and the system from Marx on ward thru the sixties. This modern view of a more perfect union and the perfectibility of man is totally wrong because mankind as a whole and as an individual is fallen and now with modern technology the genocidal capacity is here and will stay until he deals or is dealt with by God as a whole. Modern man is not going to get better but only worse.
Look at our food industry, chicken that can’t walk after a few months loaded with growth hormones, cattle that should graze but are fed corn, everything filled with preservatives and chemicals, fertilizers running into watersheds and rivers and the sea. Meat washed with ammonia and chemicals. Talk about cruelty too animals…Pigs that can’t even stand up when they are more intelligent than dogs, FDA and EPA regulators that worked for the major corporations and go back and forth between big business and government, huge amounts of lobby dollars to sway special interests. Don’t you hate it or are you just to numb to care anymore? It needs to come down and its power is to strong through out the world and will only come down by war along with every other false greedy ideology and false religion that undermines humanity and love. Genetic diseases are coming as well from these masters of reality who tamper. Monsanto and genetically modified corn and soybeans already are band in many places but not in the USA. DON’T FALL ASLEEP! They want us like cattle.
My faith sustains me with the vision of Christ not the vision of a revolt or a turning around of things by some movement of man. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah out there and brave new world where everyone is drugged and then your telling me this is the fodder of CHANGE? Forget it! I will keep trying as an individual but my hope is no longer in political or ideological movements of man. Do you actually think it is getting better? LOL! Do you think that globalization is going to create one big happy family as we ruin the planet going into the future? I see the entire world heading for more and more trouble and no works of technology or ingenuity by mans hand stopping it. The answers are not in the physical or the material realm. Secular humanism as a solution is a failed system and I suggest you learn to pray and open your heart up to the cross of Jesus Christ and start reading the Bible.
This whole dilapidated culture has left God in the name of a false freedom and I see it imploding more and more, men with men, women with women, no longer boundaries and the freedom is major chaos, cheating marriages, it is all so lost and unproductive, it is so close to war, it is actually happening like watching a movie. In Huxley's 'Brave New World' the outside man was born on a reservation from a natural mother and when he came to Brave New World he had dignity and his language represented dignity with depth and soul. Huxley wrote in 1931 'as real freedom dissipates sexual freedom and drug abuse will rise' angst and loss of soul takes compensation for hollowness of a freedom without universals. Huxley said the states in the world would use sex and drugs as a compensation. The savage in Brave New World liked a woman who was poly with all kinds of partners conditioned by the state and every time they or she felt angst they would take soma(a state desighner drug) and go find another partner never waking up. The savage was trying to read Shakespeare to her and finally he told he loved her-she started taking off her clothes and saying why didn't you say so! He screamed at her and slapped her and said 'I didn't mean that! They had no commitment, no sense of true love, no real freedom and depth of soul. The savage left and the book ends with him hanging. All his life Huxley tried to get him off that tree being the representation of mans soul in a modern world losing grip on the very concept of soul. His last book 'Island' was a Tibetan Buddhist colony off an island in China still trying to say humanity could survive in post modernism and genocidal technology.
I see more more rot and lost culture in the name of a sick shallow gross freedom. Does it ever surprise you, the lack of political will? It is like the invasion of the body snatchers, more and more people are taken over by this crass commercial superficial culture that plays into the hand of the ultra state while they are deadened and ruled with pleasure and compensations such as anti depressants, materialism, pornography and a false sense of belonging just like Dostoevsky's 'Grand Inquisitor' his master piece 'The Brothers Karamazov'. I see Orwell's boot in the face as the image of man turns into Sodom and Gomorrah. The system sells everything from guns to phony change and revolution while pacifying its victims with phony freedom that leaves us beyond comfortably numb, more like comatose in the sleep of death with a loss of fundamental humanity and conscience

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Untouchability

Drizzling dusk, I sit with lightening evening
at my dim lit room, I can not see from the front
all the things flashing back from behind, funny
are the things! An emotion wrapped up with
reason coming up from the lower part of the
stomach of me, a smile on the face, foolishness,
but body is feeling a queer nausea, how a touch
of a man makes unholy another one! Things are
here funnier! That man one day on the table discussed
some wonderful philosophy, he defined magnificently
dialectic materialism with patriotic affinity and affirmed
firmly ‘ I believe in humanism and in one humanity ‘
I see in his fingers, five rings in numbers though he
cursed me to believe in the things non-matter but he
refused to take with me a cup of tea, more dark
descended around me as I on the bright light of
Sunday morning see hypocrisy! Hypocrisy!
On the pages of matrimonial all the young
demand bride of their own caste, I shall not touch any
book of poetry till the death of Untouchability, let all

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