Best Dos Poems

written months ago commemorating 
the graduation from a vaunted charter school 
in Bend, Oregon of thy lovely youngest,
this papa could not attend - 
geographical distance constituting the primary determinant.
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Ich such dos shtetl
Wos mer wird zogn
wos mer baj zejn vergongenhejt
nich reizn, wos mer zogt,
wo sejn di wolkns, wos is geblibn
vun de zejt mer hot nich mer gehert.
Mer zogn leben,
gezejtn zogt mer zej dos mer,
wo wosr nich mecht misn sejn strond.
Wos seg ch' fir mejn...

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I don't mean to hurt you
but I do
And I don't mean to love you
but I do
I don't want to want you
but I do
Don't you see?
I do miss you
Don't you agree
We do think it best
To seek another quest
and lay our love gently to rest!
©John-Ovan.P.Hull...

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COPLA SESENTA Y DOS
: This Bad Guy World

Anger hell-bent at enemy
Despair at Bad Guys’ existence:
Bring self-defeat

Let him not provoke your envy
Nor make you expose inner essence:
Minds must not bleat

Only the dispassionate will
Gita’s detachment of action:
Leads to success

Everything else being equal
Plus strength of cause and conviction:
War’s...

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I want to kiss your pretty face
Around the world in every place
Where romance lives and shines so bright
Where every day is only night

Where we could simply ride around
In horse drawn carriage, sit spellbound 
Through central parks and squares lit up
I'd look into your eyes closeup

And...

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Too many times, caught fire from straying lines. A choir, the sister cries. Strong mama to 
wipe her eyes. See daddy tried to raise him right, although he stayed out nights, claiming his 
hood was tight, until it took his life. 

Stray bullets, started comtempletions....

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Sung to tune of Salty Dog
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She came back
And I got
Canned

And you expect
me
To understand

Honey won't you 
let
that woman go



She arrived
And I got
Dropped


And into
bed 
You two hopped

Honey won't you let 
that
Woman go

She came
At four
And left...

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When she's mad, she'll become hostile. Endure it for it is positive in the end

Be romantic, she's not; she sucks at it.

Don't tell her your not perfect (who is, right). It makes her go cuckoo

Don't get her food with onions in it. She's allergic

Let her...

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COPLA CINCUENTA Y DOS: This Bad Guy World

Stand and fight! Don’t abandon the field!
Confront not the Enemy alone:
Bad Guy cowards

So long as Good Guys drop their shield
Bad Guys will multiply and clone
Filthy innards

Yi Jing says denounce the Yin first
Let everyone see its bared face:
Make public...

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COPLA DOS (TWO):  This Bad Guy World

-	The second COPLA in the series –


Bad guys in this world got it made
They simply outnumber good guys:
Their paradise;

Bad guys help themselves to the shade
Reduce good guys to broken toys
Every so wise;

If good guys by chance reach the...

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He was magnificent and Augustus
came from the multiplicity of ages
today's light, I actually appreciate
glowing ancient infant

              II
Made of carbon and poetry,
substrate, substantive rhyme
Lazio flower, and gemstone
symbiosis of pain and magic...

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Existe um mundo de pensamentos positivos!
Um mundo de pensamentos positivos 
formado por palavras simbolos, 
ideias emocionais e de criacoes imaginarias do intelecto. 

Um mundo no qual todos os terrenos sao novos.
No mundo dos pensamentos positivos
tudo tem solucao.

Nesse mundo
dos pensamentos positivos
se encontra a imensidao da beleza,...

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COPLA CUARENTA Y DOS: This Bad Guy World

This Life’s nothing but a sink pit
You wake up one day deep in it:
No one’s to blame

Yet the Phoney Fake Hypocrite
Don’t even have to try to make it:
Theirs is the game

Still here and there the genuine
Leave sweat behind...

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8 CUPS OF STALE BREAD- TOASTED AND CUBED
3 CUPS OF COOKED BROWN RICE
2 CUP OF MUSTARD GREENS, DRAINED AND CHOPPED FINE
2 CUPS OF ONIONS CHOPPED
1/4 CUP OF GARLIC CRUSHED
3 CUPS OF COOKED HAMHOCK MEAT DICED FINE
1/2 CUP OF CHOPPED ROSEMARY
1/4 CUP OF CHOPPED THYME
1 CUP...

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Me ame agora enquanto
Eu posso te amar de volta
Me ame agora quando, à vontade
Eu posso acender e apagar o fogo da lanterna
Me ame agora enquanto, novamente
Eu posso expirar, inspirar e respirar facilmente
Me ame agora enquanto
Eu posso ver sua beleza claramente
Não espere por amanhã ou outro...

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