Humbird

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Humbird
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Author, storyteller, cook and skeptical enquirer. My guiding light — think like a devil, be endlessly kind, never let go of a good question and try anything twice.

  February 2021     12 months ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

Corner view

Was that you again, just around the corner of my day?
Almost there, then not, a whisper, a whiff, a sigh,
Then gone.
My mind was floating without future through the sky
among the gulls and the kites, when
without warning, I felt the breath of your...

– by C Y Gopinath

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added 3 years ago
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Cornerview

Was that you again, just around the corner of my day?
Almost there, then not, a whisper, a whiff, a sigh,
Then gone.
My mind was floating without future through the sky
among the gulls and the kites, when
without warning, I felt the breath of your...

– by C Y Gopinath

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added 3 years ago
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To Die For You

I do not know what it is like to die for you.
I am too young.
I saw too little.
I shed no blood.
I took no pain.
No wisdom guides my vision,
No ideals quicken my stride.
I see but little, I expect but much, I receive mere pittances,
And my voice...

– by C Y Gopinath

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added 3 years ago
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Journey's end

Cast not a shadow as you enter.
Leave not a ripple as you leave.
Go whisperless into the wind;
Stir neither sadness nor peace.
No hand-made monument must mark your place,
Nor kindnesses leave others beholden.
Go as you came, amidst wonder and...

– by C Y Gopinath

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added 3 years ago
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