School Arabic Poems

A Brisling (King Oscar sardines)

I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for supper
Headless and nicely packed, except for one
that had a head and...

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Our enemies the Philistines
As we were taught in Sunday school
Are extras in the battle lines
To die, as we were born to rule

What lovely racists we’ve...

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A view of the ocean of print

On the night sky over Australia, among thousands of stars
the dog of hell appeared, killing the Aboriginal men
but a...

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This is another parody of a hymn!  This time the hymn is "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder".  No, I am not...

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They were able to see the sun at last, to look
all around, finally breathe without burqas
     begin a new chapter.
Their words...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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"The 80's,90's and Boom boxes"
Weird sounds keep playing
On this old stereo from the 80's
Today its "The beatles",tomorrow "Elvis Presley" and guess who it is now?...

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THEN:
The first day of Ramadan,
We all gathered at your house
All year, we were waiting for this day,
For your stories, advices and prayers.
Except, your orders to...

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A fairyland fable is a magic table floating around but nit with a rallying cry. That is purely reserved for several synchronised cruise ships whose...

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senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very...

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Mumma please find a new home for me,
Somewhere like Syria before, where I was extremely happy,
I know there were bombs going off permanently,
And I understand...

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barn asked noble
   where is the choucroute

   as shukran every morning
   at the bodega

   to send the...

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A rare Arab and Asian identity which is distinct in topography;
blessed with an excellent human resource in health services;
its heart, destroyed and rebuilt seven different...

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Her bridges are in school textbooks,
Her dead are numbers in the papers.

Every tourist wears black.
In a dream, I visited her once too;

I saw a friend...

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I had some very good primary school teachers who were awesome 
But in all my schooling, one of my college instructors stood out to be...

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