Best Bata Poems

Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love...

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Ajoke
  ...... to my Ajoke,  to your ajoke
 
It was at oja ale I first saw you
Your smile that day ajoke 
Robbed me...

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(My apologies! This poem is wrtten in Filipino....for my brother Edwin...i hope to translate it one day)


Noong tayoy mga bata pa...
Wala akong maalala....
Na sa akin...

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I am Africa, I am man
Hear my drums, know my heart beat
My sorrow is not metered in iambic lines
Life does not speak that way
So artificial...

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Many are the stars in the sky
You my love out shines them all.
Ajike, it's you that paints my heart's garden
It's your smile that gives life...

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Platonic Relationships

Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
Japan celebrating Tanabata festival
There! The two stars Vega...

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Kapaligiran, Kay gandang pagmasdan
Lalo na kung ito'y maayos at malinis
Subalit kulang yata sa aral o disiplina ang mga Pilipino
Maraming basura ay nagkalat, mga plastik at...

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We have come to you
Like the sun to the cloud does
Anything you can afford
Please,do,spare us.
We've been under this bridge
even the ants gossips us
Because we share...

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This world was green like Amazon forests,
Today like the Red Sea,
The old bata system replaced money,
The lifeless paper notes called smart cards for help,
Credit cards...

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| Friday | 12 | August | 2016 | 10:18 PM |
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~ Okëmön a Okëmön ~
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Okemön a Okemön.
na ino di maTimpalas
i piyamaka Rinayag
Na Bacon maTamparasa
a...

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Ilog na hindi natutuyo ang agos, 
Pinagtularan sa biyaya ng Diyos; 
Malinaw na tubig na dumadausdos, 
Bumubukal at hindi nga nauubos.

Huwag wawasakin ang likas na...

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Umaga, nakikita kang naglalakad,
Ang kanan mong kamay ay may tangan pang bag.
Ang kaliwang kamay mo'y libro ang hawak
Ngunit sa daan kilalaka ng lahat.

Ika'y guro; Sagisag...

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I trace my existence back to

Iye mwen N’ogie (My great Mother).

You see when I was but a foetus

In a womb of the *****sapien whom...

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Tanabata
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love...

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Tala tala jhardaichu
Jimdai bhayera pani mardaichu
Aafnu jindagi bada 
Mo nai alik sardaichu


Kati din pachi ta manche le malie 
thukkcha
Tei apman bata bachnu mo jasto 
lukcha
Tara...

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