I'm Crying In The Car Listening to 'A Whole New World'
...Streaming like the rain outside
The windscreen wipers working like
My heart and chopping onions stuff
A testament to will the good of another
The kids are in the back and can't see what's goi...
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Categories:
belgian, age, appreciation, april,
Form: Free verse
Dialogue of Breakfast Superlatives
...Good and browned, for you, a pancake round,
flipped and stacked, a joy so profound,
or perhaps, I'll share, a waffle square,
with pear for extraordinary flair.
Flair, is great for a flapjack ...
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Categories:
belgian, food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Breakfast Suggestion
...Longing for the taste of maple,
New England's sweet and tasty staple?
I am here to kindly mention
considering the Belgian invention.
Take a pancake: for heaven's sake,
it makes your syrup form a...
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Categories:
belgian, food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
a ship and Germany
...a ship and Germany
Unter den Linden, I have a soft spot for the German language
when a toddler, I had free access to a military camp where
they had enormous horses and let me sit on top of one o...
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Categories:
belgian, abuse, allusion, america, break
Form: Free verse
Boyhood Memories
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Carolina home
In the great Palmetto State
Place where I was born
Boy was free to roam
On a ninety-acre farm
Free from fear and harm
In dirt, sand or mud
We sandlappers had it all
To wor...
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Categories:
belgian, childhood, growing up, home,
Form: Haiku
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXXIII
...Belgian Fernand Khnopff a symbolist
achieving cult status as an artist
'Listening to Flowers'*so unique
introspective style so unique...
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Categories:
belgian, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Bittersweet
...If I had to feast on one last treat,
I wouldn’t think twice.
Palate pleasing plunge, elite -
Farewell dark and bittersweet.
Mayan, Belgian, Swiss -
Adieu to all spice -
Chocolate I ...
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Categories:
belgian, chocolate,
Form: Rhyme
BAVILA GREAT MARTYR , SONG
...Father of the Nation Musabwa Kamango Munanila,
The commander-in-chief of Bavila's defence forces.
How should we cry for you ! the great bavila leader,
How should we cry for you ! bavila's grandfa...
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Categories:
belgian, africa, history, inspirational, song,
Form: Free verse
MARRIAGE OF MUSABWA KAMANGO MUNANILA
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Musabwa Kamango Munanila got married
a virgin girl called "Kanjokerwa"
He was very happy because
there was no man who knew
her wife before him.
His father honoured the mother
of Kanjok...
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Categories:
belgian, africa, history,
Form: Free verse
Unter den linden
...Unter den Linden
I have a soft spot for the German language
when a toddler, I had free access to a military camp where they had enormous horses and let me sit on top of one of them (looking u...
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Categories:
belgian, addiction, age, allah, angst,
Form: Blank verse
All For A Smile
...I'll take you on a journey
There's places we can see
I picked a few I think you'll like
I hope that you'll agree
Let's watch a blazing sunset
From somewhere on a shore
Just you and I together...
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Categories:
belgian, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
KILLING OF CONGOLESE FROM 1885
...No one is hated more
than he who speaks the truth
- Pluto
as Belgian officers
cut off legs and hands
Of innocent Congolese
from 1885, king Leopold II smiled,
the victims of atrocities cried,...
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Categories:
belgian, africa, imagery, truth,
Form: Free verse
LEADER OF THEIR CHOICE
...The leader of their choice,
as Prince Lali Luhongeka Musabwa decided
to become a medical practitioner
to heal people from different villages.
His uncle Prince Lutambwe Kibaya Musabwa was
so...
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Categories:
belgian, africa, culture,
Form: Free verse
Strange Sign Was Seen In Bavila Kingdom In 1960
...A strenge sign was seen in Uvila
when Prince Kambulishi Lutambwe went to rest.
The grandsons of King Mussabwa Kamango were hunted by some traitors
and swindlers silently,
One day Prince Kambulis...
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Categories:
belgian, africa, history,
Form: Narrative
Fire From the Grave of Bavira Prince
...Fire came out of the grave of Prince
Ruhongeka ( Luhongeka) Ngengethe Mussabwa.
After the killing of King Mussabwa Kamango by
the Colonial army in the battle of Lubako forest,
The Bavira ( ...
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Categories:
belgian, africa, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
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