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Best Gulliver Poems

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Nostalgia-Song of the Expatriate
(I'm 
an 
Indian 
lassie, 
was 
born 
in 
West 
Africa, 
(Nigeria), 
Grew 
up 
in 
South 
Africa 
(Swaziland) 
and 
currently 
live 
in 
East 
Africa. 
(Tanzania). 
So 
I...

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Categories: gulliver, missing, nostalgia, patriotic,
Form: Quatorzain



Premium Member Freeing An Elephant
An elephant weakened by drought, had become helplessly mired down, in the deep mud of the water-hole's edge. Ironic that death was eminent from the...

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Categories: gulliver, cute, hope, irony, nature,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Work Is Love Made Visible-W
I do not know what work there is as many feel
I have always worked with love and taste
In my teens my second home was Library
Reading...

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Categories: gulliver, home, work,
Form: Narrative
Not the Cruellest Month
How can there be despair when the entire
natural world unfolds with new life?  
When the anhinga alights from the Nowhere
he was into the Somewhere...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gulliver, seasons,
Form: Elegy
Freedom
A courier of peace; a coupon of hope
Your cost, though, I have been made alien,
Your fruitfulness I heartily grope.
But the lashed back in servitude asks,...

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Categories: gulliver, freedom,
Form: Sonnet



The Sea and I
Once I was sand dab small
urchin of the tides
shrieking with the gulls
on my blanket of sand
and head high as the waves
I was playmate to the...

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Categories: gulliver, childhood, emotions, feelings, growing
Form: Free verse
Legal Romance
LEGAL ROMANCE

Law, 
Let me plague you 
With the infectious love of my heart.
Now that I bear the aftermath of your infections,
And your cold blood boils...

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Categories: gulliver, fantasy, funny love, lust,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Books From My Childhood
Reading by the light of a flashlight
With the covers pulled over my head
Captain Nemo battled an octopus
Robinson Crusoe was thought to be dead

Gulliver went on...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gulliver, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
From the Elephant's Diary
From the Elephant's diary


You find me giantly like Gulliver, huge and obese
but I met my doc, he said take it with ease....
for you big is...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gulliver, animal, art, nature,
Form: Free verse
We Poets Are Waiting For the Moonset
we poets are waiting for the moonset 
sitting on my balcony, evolutions shamans
now wandering the beach
we are solving every social ill
while walking Blake's path of...

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Categories: gulliver, moving on,
Form: Free verse
The Globe Tis Choked
Rid me of this damn corn,
the progeny of past laquered 
loves, its to, its fro, they lap 
like cats at milk, destroying all

Returning then to...

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Categories: gulliver, environment,
Form: Verse
Cerneja Kingdom and a Chirurgical Gift
My GRANDFATHER loved to work. His schedule from 3 am till 6 pm we were farmers
-we is a lot of people who's here?- He asks....

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Categories: gulliver, animal, childhood, culture, grandparents,
Form: Epic
Travails of Life
I traveled with Gulliver in his travails
Often times involving in shipwreck- 
Or becoming prisoner of the Lilliputians of life.
I sailed on the ocean of life-
Getting...

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Categories: gulliver, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dem New Publicans

Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray

Happy daze are here...

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Categories: gulliver, parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Looking For Home
LOOKING FOR HOME


a magnifying glass spotted a WE little woods
in a tiny village with the wonder of memories

a crayfish creek with human legs splashing
a stone...

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Categories: gulliver, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things