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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

quote by Denis Diderot
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Burning Hot

Dazed mind vaporized face
The sun here is merciless
Certainly it is a lost duel
Of the weak against the burning fuel
Where any defense is just useless
Thoughts benumbed minds senseless!

poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay
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Clouds

Dragon
From vale
Moves up
White with shades of black
Pours itself
Atop from majestic heights
Embraces the mountains
Carries the embrace
To an end
Where end known not
Infinity
Engulfs those peaks
Invincible which were
Benumbed looks
Between the space
Golden rays.

poem by Sanjay Mehta
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Amour Divinus

Meandering
Cyclic
Tortuous
Winding paths

From up above
We rejected
Hide and seek
Behind opaque clouds

Fixed in dissimilar directions
Heads rested
On the cloud-cushions

An orgasmic wave
Benumbed…
Breaths boomed

The plethora of clouds and
Loosely hanging blue spread

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poem by Indira Babbellapati
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Lethargy

Lethargy creeps in when heart is broken
When hopes and dreams stand at a distant
When lacking the inspiration and motivation
When fruit of success doesn't show its face
When purpose is meaningfully directionless,
When doubt is created in the ability and utility
When repeated failure is a satiated languor
And strain benumbed the mind crawling in the stupor

poem by Abdul Wahab
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The Garden of Questions

Begetting burdensome outcomes,
Remember quiet qualms clad in benumbed bandage.

Let the clandestine rejoinders boil on a heyday of blossoms;
Let them rise in a fiery fury in thunder of rage.

And then,
While the silky lens of molten music
Refracts the colours of life in trance,
The muses distil the soul; remove the chains of heart,
Empower and lead the dance.

Now your memory renders the train of events.

Look:
A poet is strolling slowly
Through the garden of questions that are hidden
Under the viscous veil of answers.

poem by Paul Hartal
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Sonnet III

O languid longing, o languorous sighs.
Rise up once more whenever you are here,
Because I can't stop these rivers of tears,
And these fountains flowing from my eyes.

O cruelties, o inhuman hardness,
Piteable regards of celestian lights.
O benumbed heart, o passionate heights,
Do you con me with false lovelinnes ?

Amor is disguised with a friendly face,
But I won't welcome him, nor embrace
His cunning features, mysterious and dark.

As he draws and aims on me his arrow,
I'm not afraid because it is too narrow,
Even for him, to hurt me and hit a free mark.

poem by Louise Labe
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It ceased to hurt me, though so slow

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It ceased to hurt me, though so slow
I could not feel the Anguish go—
But only knew by looking back—
That something—had benumbed the Track—

Nor when it altered, I could say,
For I had worn it, every day,
As constant as the Childish frock—
I hung upon the Peg, at night.

But not the Grief—that nestled close
As needles—ladies softly press
To Cushions Cheeks—
To keep their place—

Nor what consoled it, I could trace—
Except, whereas 'twas Wilderness—
It's better—almost Peace—

poem by Emily Dickinson
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Sonnet: Self-Meditation

If when you close your eyes, this world is gone,
An inner world comes into your purview;
And when you close your ears while all alone,
This world anew, you can better review.

And when your skin’s benumbed, outer world’s lost,
You can now look better into your mind;
The world inside has become yours and vast;
The things you yearned for, you can always find.

Now, when you blank your mind, this world too wanes;
A tranquil state prevails one never felt!
Without sadness or joy, trifles or pains;
Now, hold your breath and things will tend to melt.

Self-meditation makes a man feel God,
For, deep within his heart, resides the Lord!

poem by John Celes
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The Night of Judgment

Quietly they came stood around my head
It was last night, my date with the dead.
Their faces were veiled, their presence a wispy flow
The room was thickly filled with an ethereal glow.
I didn't know why I was struck with guilt
Scared as if for me a gallows was being built,
These aliens of faraway were not there for peace
But had come to be repaid with the final justice,
My love they sought, a little of my care
That I never gave them, never did share.
Their hearts pined for it, I never felt their pain
And now it's too late, they're back with disdain.
I lay benumbed while I was carried to the noose
The verdict was foregone, death's what they chose.
So friends love and care, it's for what you are sent
So that you feel no guilt on the night of judgment!

poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay
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