Joao Barros-Pereira/Toto Akeru wrote:
>
> Dear Readers,
> Please be kind enough to comment!
>
> Champagne
>
> Far
> too many
> of us
>
> were
> introduced
> to
> Shakespeare
>
> even before
> the legal
> drinking age
>
> and soon
> got drunk
> on
> his words
>
> and the
> wonderful
> cadences
> of his
> sentences
>
> Later
> in life
>
> some of us
> were
> lucky enough
> to discover
>
> the
> Eastern
> mystics
> and
> masters
>
> and
>
> slowly
>
> slowly
>
> became
> less
> and less
>
> satisfied
> with
> the Bard
>
> as
> we read
> more
> and more
>
> of the
> great works
>
> no longer
>
> through
> the passage
> of our
> Christian minds
>
> glimpsing
> new
> worlds
>
> at
> depths
> Shakespear
>
> never
> dreamed of
>
> Home
> Sweet Home
>
> Once upon
> a time
>
> Alex Haley
> wrote
> a book
> called
>
> Roots
>
> which made
> a lot of people
>
> all over
> the world
>
> go
> in search
> of their
> beginnings
>
> We
> are not
>
> trees
>
> whispers
> a voice
>
> sitting
> calmly
>
> in
> the shade
> of the
> pipal
>
> Look
> within
>
> for
> your home
>
> no matter
> where
> you come
> from
> or
>
> where
> you
> intend to go
These poems are tendentious, smug, and prosaic.
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