Best Bibi Poems

Well, my father was a farmer, just chickens and cows
When it came to raisin' 'em, he really knew how
To milk those bovines for all they...

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Khadim Rizvi preaches gore
To his followers rioting in Lahore
He, wears lipstick and ladies dresses
His followers had lobotomies on dirty floors

They wish to murder a young...

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This subject is too fraught for eloquent poetry
  So please indulge me in a straightforward thought or three

  For the first time in...

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Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.

Like brick walls braced against...

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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

This...

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AFRICAN WOMAN

Who are you, African woman? 
What’s your identity? 
What do you stand for??
Black is beauty they say but the beauty lies in our core...

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     On the night of December 2, 1984
a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant
was a terrible tragedy that...

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First they came for the Muslims

after Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came...

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What is a necktie dangling for?
too stiff, too thin to be a scarf,
        a bibi or apron;

too smooth...

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Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch

Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good,...

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In 2006, Israel pulled out of Gaza
    liberating the Gazans 
  at the behest of noble global statesmen 'round the world...

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Prime Minister Netanyahu
Present Knesset, Likud Jew
Said Jews have duel capitals:
Jerusalem with armed control
And the city of Tel Aviv.
Who is this ruler called “Bibi”
Who rejects the...

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Nina rafiki  I Have A Friend---

Nina rafiki
Nina rafiki
Hapa duniani
Na mbinguni
Nina rafiki
Oh, ndiyo mimi nina rafiki;
Na si wewe tafadhali kuwakaribisha
Jina lake duniani ni .... wewe...

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Dafina catens

 ```He cheated```
He cheated and said im the liar,
Aty me ni elder wa brothel me ni malaya,
Akapack... madem ni wengi akaishia ulaya,
Sina ubaya bro...

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One day I met an old woman,
Who said am supposed to greet,
Her harsh words made me scared,
But then I said "Shikamoo Bibi".

With her beautiful white...

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