Best Cambodian Poems

In that meteoric moment
she exhibited eternal qualities of wonderfully wrought womanhood,
calm,disciplined and candid,
adorned with few distinctions from the rest behind her
the loving leadership was projected in painstaking posture,
brutal perfection,a suffering of diligence amounting to total serenity,
she being a gem amongst stones,
for inexperience a cure,
synchronicity simple...

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Drench from the pouring rain,
The young Cambodian girl
Wiped her face and
Held up her rice basket
Toward the hidden stars
She wondered which way
The wind would blow
Her dreams are hidden
In the forbidden rice field...

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Cambodian rice fields
where
dragonflies make love
while
we
dance on moon river...

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“Cambodia is
Cambodia but not really
Cambodia.”
That’s what some say
As the years roll on
Forty years or so since Pol Pot and his pals posted
‘Year 0”, 
Sent the whole thing to the wash,
 And it came out 
Red.

So now I recline on
 Sun built beaches
Night into Day 
Sandwiched...

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I spoke to a Cambodian,
Proud of his country he said
"I left the country because of poverty
half the country are wealthy

but the other half, live in poverty
we don't have benefits 
but people know how to make money
sometimes they work

for just two dollars per day
yet in a...

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