Best Amin Poems

Perhaps being something of a contrarian and historian
I like to spend Sunday mornings playing American Top Forty reruns on the oldies station
because I enjoy the...

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Salamat po, Ka Eduardo,
Sa inyo pong pagmamahal;
Inaakay n’yo ang tao
Patungo sa bayang banal.

Kahit mapagod, mapuyat
Ay hindi n’yo alintana;
Ang mahalaga'y matupad
Ang tungkulin n’yo sa Ama.

Ang Iglesia’y...

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*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots'...

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Melamin
Arwenamin
Amin naa lle nai
Amin naa tualle
Mela en coiamin
Vanimle sila tiri
Tenna tulre
Quel kaima
Amin mela lle

My love,
My lady.
I am yours to command,
I am your servant. 
Love of...

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THE PHARAOHS
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS

		


It wasn’t the Pharaohs that ruled the Nile
It was the priests that sanctioned  their style
As long as the Pharaoh kept playing...

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Was not every one a child?
Joy to their mother and father
And growing up as a kid
With wonder and laughter

Then they go to school 
Playing games...

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America, so vast and the land of the free
Brazil, carnivals and beach beauties

Canada, untouched, with the mighty Niagara Falls
Denmark, with the mermaid, luring sailors with...

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Tinataningan nang kumunoy ng oras
Sinusubok kung hanggang saan ang antas, 
Minsa'y nahahapo ang katawang lupa
Subalit puso'y pigil…ayaw madapa.


Denidelubyo sa paghihintay sa'yo, 
Nasasaksak minsan sa may...

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Manhattan hi-rise nestles
a yawning head-in-the-clouds woman
ready for another consumptive day.
Shod in Choo's, coifed in beige
arising from a long slender nape,
she leaves her nest
after a wave...

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Uncle Roo
I forgot to celebrate your 89TH 
Birthday but as you turn 90 
May be i will 
Some how for the some reasons

You know it
Gaddafi...

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Roy retelling a story of his so-journey 
to the land of splendor the land of light
there our Roy stated his case and found favor
amina thanks...

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Turn around and the
Sky opens its mouth.
You were sent to us.
This is a book will never be
shun by human.
We’ve got you surrounded.
Bliss and furious.
Sky and...

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Watch out for that ideology
Bad effects on your psychology
It bleeds into our sociology
‘Til we hate one another’s biology

Let’s make a pact
To get our facts together
Have...

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Review the annals of history
   Murder upon murder you'll see

Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
   Who murdered his brother Abel...

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HEAL THY SELF O WOUNDED AFRICA 
                (no to XENOPHOBIA).
...

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