Long Unfavourable Poems

K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...

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Ha! A Princess in ancient times - my first name XXXXXXXX!
     Imagine, in a male-dominated society, how blessed was I to be thus
         ...

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In my world nevertheless, these reasons compels me to be alone
For no one can even begin to comprehend to things of unknown
Whether a curse or a deliverance to befall upon me
I have not a choice,...

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Hey,come 3rd quarter of each calender year,  it is that time of the year again, 
This phenomenon is headlined in local dailies each day, again and again...

An enviromental situation, all kinds of experts in...

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Life is a continuous journey beset with troubles
So long we live in this universe,
Trouble becomes part and parcel of human experience 
Life swings like a pendulum, 
One moment swings towards favourable conditions;
That brings name,fame,gain,praises and...

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I do appreciate the sky
that is not flying high
the moon is so powerful 
the yellow grey clouds protective of,
The light blue sky that turns Blue 
Latter the white clouds,
Suddenly my memories travel Radical
The magic autobiographical...

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SUCIDE

I wish people could understand
Only if they knew the outcome of those actions
I've always wanted to be recognized 
In reality, I hurt badly
No one understands me
It ends the moment they are there
The moment everyone leaves
I'm...

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In life everything around 
goes awfully wrong, 
And the road to happiness 
may seem so long.
Sometimes our problems 
may seem so cold like ice, 
And even the sun may not 
be able to dry the...

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There lives a woman in the West of Arira 
To whom life denied the rights to live
The woman alive, but short of living
The life, like periwinkle shuts its doors
The troubles her children will inherit
To an...

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My life is like a train 
where passengers enter in leave 
they turn into my reverie 
on this tiresome journey 

This journey is so long 
but it always seems short 
coz' time flies away soon...

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I?m in a new world of strange sounds
I?m in a familiar world yet of different tongues
And I somehow feel at home
This was the dream I wanted to own

Yesterday I was so down, eager for a...

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THE SECRET

Shh! The walls have ears; let them not hear you
Let no other ear hear this! Threatening warnings of my father
Compelled alliance with my father; concealing the truth from my mother
Sight of my mother’s ignorant...

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Free the birds, let them go to the East
The North is unfavourable to them;
The terrorists has done them wrong
Feasting from where they have not sown.
The overwhelmed  corpses on the ground
Has becomes the object of...

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I am a girl who decided to go to school barefoot, because that’s what other young children from needy families in a village were used to…

I am a girl whose best childhood memory is playing...

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Please Leave us in peace
Among the tall trees
Leave us not in pieces
For the dirge is never near
For the morning await the arrival
Of the warlords, Ranyinudo Osinachi

There are many broken thoughts
Yet unfinished business but 
Leave us...

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Freedom of the soul to pierce through new scenes, dimensions, heights and regions

Brevity taken and sometimes manoeuvred to serendipity

Glorious asunder from the usual

Footprints of pathways a must to display victory

Persistence, despite barricades, obstructions blurring visions,...

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When I look forlorn;when things seem not 
to go the way they should.When the burden 
of the thought of unfavourable events seems 
to weigh me down.When I am overwhelmed by 
the mist of the confusion,and...

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"Heel"

Another language speaks its truth
one’s truth is another’s war
Agamemnon and his achilles

to heel a virtue
to heal a cause
such an odyssey

styx and stones
Clytemnestra, silent 
spartan subdued

a loss, a child
innocence stolen, spilt
on another’s alter for Troy

a loss,...

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They are nature's gifts to us,
A sign of its benevolence,
Her hands have sown and nurtured them,
They are to beautify our landscape.

They are evidence of nature's dexterity,
She watches over them with keen interest, 
They are in...

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Created with a single identity
My dignity, honour depends on that identity
Identity handed to me by Divinity
As Divinity did throughout humanity

Black is my originality, I seek not to lose it
Yet this double identity is forced on...

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We live life's different chapters according to our age,
Sometimes we feel free to roam and sometimes we are in a cage,
Somehow we manage to accept the change,
Is life a stage?

Its not easy to live life...

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Does the sheep wonder of its colour
Before it’s tarred with a brush
Does the sheep feel unfavourable 
Without judgement from us
Does the sheep acknowledge its identity
Feel caged, suppressed or free
Does the sheep feel like a lesser...

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Trying to express horrifically unsavoury and odious acts of heinousness, 
such unspeakable repugnant opprobrium packed with horrendousness 
is a test stacked with specific unfavourable hopeless stress, 
seen a crying fuzz of the weakened redundant mental...

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A recluse nicknamed ‘nun of Amherst
Wrote rhymes about death, faith and curse
‘Springfield Republican’ cleaved her mind
Where thoughts are joined you will find
‘Hope is the thing with feathers’
Where sweetest sound of gale is heard
She left an...

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Matters not they 
Be taught 
To be strong
To be self-sufficient
They are educated
Well informed
Utterly smart & upbeat
Their presence  is felt
But alas there are hounds
Everywhere
Wanting to give in 
To their demands
They entice& engulf them
With their charms
No...

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