Best Communal Poems

Jack frost had paid a call,
The morn was all a-glitter.
Icicles dangled from frozen gutters,
The day was cold and bitter.

Greetings of "good morning "
Came from here and there
As the hardy left their houses,
To face the freezing air.

I heard familiar sounds
Echoing around our street,
Neighbours scraping windscreens
And stamping...

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The Malay Pantun:  The Non-Party Communal Triumvirate

Ursidae carnivora hug and hibernate
   Hypolais polyglottes trill without triumph
Alliance Party* wins and vituperate
   Opposition parties coagulate without lymph

•	The ruling Malaysian communal triumvirate – 
since Independence in 1957.

© T. Wignesan, Paris - 2013...

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Someone can advise you 
To be friend of big rich people 
To be also rich in the future. 
I am telling you to be  best friend 
Of majority poor as
They need your aid 
to destroy  the system which enrich 
Few people and
kill millions of...

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Take me to a place where I belong
Where I can be free and recite my song
Where mountains kneel with valleys down to pray
The trees and flowers swing and sway
With vibrant colors, bold as silk-screened batik
Aromas abound that laugh and speak
Take me to that place where...

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Owned by all
Yet trusted to one
For the benefit of all

Why then so scraggy
Like a road side beggar
Has he failed to make you baggy?

Because he hated our interest
Isn’t our motherland the trustee
Our birthright the interest

The kids he keeps selfishly
Thinking we were all blind
To see the specie...

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Set out in an upper room,
passover made new;
tender slowly cooked lamb stew,
wine,unleavened bread
with thanksgiving said-
A hymn of
Praise !...

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the soul perfected in originality
strengthened by divinity
of a new born baby
whose first cry
came with full might
from the window of a dark room.
the same soul, years after
darkened
by glare of worldly matters
akin to an avidful pursuit
of a rat in an alley,
rested on the pale faces
being snatched of...

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Communal Holiday.
The holiday home for children 
was near a cold lake
flanked by two black mountains 
We children swam there
every morning at seven
before the sun warmed the lake.
Breakfast at eight, mainly oatmeal porridge
and stale bread.
Boot camp for children. 
Three weeks of this then we were let...

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If anyone reads this, feel free to add to the monorhyme. leave a comment with your one additional line, that should keep it in order I think?
Just meant to be fun if anyone feels like it, let's start with....


IT STARTED AS A HOAX, UNTIL HE...

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Give me all that you want for yourself,
I seemed to say it to all and all times,
they seemed to say about the same to me,
where do we go from here,
Is it really a zero sum game,
Land is there enough for all,
If I have ahouse villa...

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Share with me,
if you could become so kind,
Which of all your lifetime actions
was not also a reaction?

Which thought
not also a polyphonic feeling
rethought
and stored in memory
across countless regenerations?

Share with me
if you would
and could
and should,
Which of your responses
feels more original
and healthy
and organic
and sacred,
and intimate,
naturally communicated
and spiritually experienced
passion.

Share...

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Welcome to our friendly communal soup bowl.
Makes our neighborhood noteworthy and whole.
If you have no offering, sit down to our shared stew.
Your children are welcome. We’ll play with them too.
Many have brought carrots, onions, broth and meat.
We do not care your politics or religions, please...

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From old and new squabbles sprouts!
After some side boundary rules flouts:
Its own list of blood-freezing deaths submitting;
A number that would send the humane vomiting.

From time to time sharpening local knives,
Not excluded the spears one into a body drives:
A free pillage of hard-to-replace property
And rubbishing of...

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We revel 75 years of Independence,
from colossal colonial rule
it was unanimous struggle
that helped us get through.
Entitled to rejoice this liberty,
but the conundrum is, Are we truly free?

Haven, ma chez
I listen
to my invisible guest
I do not speak, but wait,
then it slips away
leaving a tragic face.

I recollect...

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A mob gathered in a flash
Chanting God's name
They lynched one dead
Suspected of eating beef

A mob gathered in a flash
Swinging in bigoted fervor 
They hung two by a tree.
Accused of smuggling cows

A mob gathered in a flash
Swords flashing in hands
They slashed one beyond shape
Alleged of loving...

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