Best Burmese Poems

The Burmese python lives in a creek
Far away from cold arctic
His body is colorful mosaic
The beautiful patterns are very sleek 

His patterns are like ones of warriors and knots of Celtic
But in case of this python blue is centric
Like an entry gate to out world...

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synthetic textile ghost, or maybe a
 brown burlap bag
    hanging over a shovel in the garden.

    along its side reads burmese long grain rice.

     it is raining heavely and the water has begun
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I ate at a Burmese restaurant
in Chinatown
and had a decent meal
nice and spicy
just the way I like it

I grabbed a couple business cards
so I could remember
where it was
and just because
I like business cards

Now I am sitting
in work using the card
as a bookmaker
and someone notices
a phone...

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let me give you some history of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
is that Burma?
it used to be

they won’t let us have more than two children
they persecute us daily
we cannot travel freely and are refused citizenship

I wonder who “they are” so I ask.
rohingya people.
we...

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