Human nature Poems
Unsweetened: Without Rhyme
by Aditi Hayaran
They asked if I was removing sweetness…
while I was only avoiding deception.
The deception of masking everything with sugar.
Why must I sweeten every truth
just because comfort is familiar to you?
Are we meant to accept comfort,
or simply deny what is unpleasant?
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Unbecoming
by Aditi Hayaran
What happened, oh my sugar,
The change in you—I can't quite figure.
And I know you are not bad,
An aspect or two that's making me sad.
Defended your name with the version you were,
Only to get disappointed by what you are.
Is that the new ones changing your colour,
The image once so clear, getting blurred.
The things you say now, which my old sweet one hated,
O kind one, from yourself have you deviated?
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All of All
by Favilla Mayhearth
And they all walk together, and they all feel pain.
And they all mend together - a harmony of collective solitude.
And they see lights, and they fear darkness,
and they see life through blue stained glass.
They all float on the same rock out in space, far away, but they cannot see
they're prisoners here on Earth - they can't leave.
They walk this place, this enormous graveyard, yet they see life.
And their steps mark bones of the deceased, the rotting corpses beneath us.
And they couldn't choose to leave, even if they wanted so,
And they see everything and nothing at all.
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Homo Mediocritus
by Richard Randolph
History is but a jumble of names and dates,
but it happened so long ago
what difference does it make?
I believe in living in the moment.
That's why I love music so much.
It's about real people like me.
And that's why I love to sing,
particularly sad love songs.
Okay, I know I'm not very good,
but I really feel what I'm singing,
......
Oobleck
by Aditi Hayaran
Cornstarch and water blend,
Firm or soft—let's check.
The whimsical non-Newtonian fluid,
It's called Oobleck.
For a tiny test, it's given to two.
Firm for one, soft for whom?
Curious to see the fluid's behaviour?
Let's peek into each room.
......
Unbecoming
by Aditi Hayaran
What happened, oh my sugar,
The change in you—I can't quite figure.
And I know you are not bad,
An aspect or two that's making me sad.
Defended your name with the version you were,
Only to get disappointed by what you are.
Is that the new ones changing your colour,
The image once so clear, getting blurred.
The things you say now, which my old sweet one hated,
O kind one, from yourself have you deviated?
......
Unsweetened: Without Rhyme
by Aditi Hayaran
They asked if I was removing sweetness…
while I was only avoiding deception.
The deception of masking everything with sugar.
Why must I sweeten every truth
just because comfort is familiar to you?
Are we meant to accept comfort,
or simply deny what is unpleasant?
......
Oobleck
by Aditi Hayaran
Cornstarch and water blend,
Firm or soft—let's check.
The whimsical non-Newtonian fluid,
It's called Oobleck.
For a tiny test, it's given to two.
Firm for one, soft for whom?
Curious to see the fluid's behaviour?
Let's peek into each room.
......
Homo Mediocritus
by Richard Randolph
History is but a jumble of names and dates,
but it happened so long ago
what difference does it make?
I believe in living in the moment.
That's why I love music so much.
It's about real people like me.
And that's why I love to sing,
particularly sad love songs.
Okay, I know I'm not very good,
but I really feel what I'm singing,
......
Things Hard to Understand
by Richard Randolph
A love letter no one reads,
a strange man no one needs,
a seed dropped upon the sand,
a starving child in a barren land--
Why a man when he's lost his way,
blindly stumbles on anyway,
or a boxer too bruised to see,
still flails his arms desperately--.
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