Best Malay Poems

Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes
    The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies
Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes 
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MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing...

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~Aim High~
(Pantoum)


Check the sky aim high and then just fly 
There's so much you can do, achieve  
Just set mind and focus today don't...

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Old Jambu tree
Still bearing fruits;
Generous delights

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NDP crowd
Massive tapestry;
Community celebration

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Each passing year
Affirms our country;
Diversity in oneness

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We celebrate
Our little red dot;
Gratitude remembers

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So much to see
So little time;
Familiar...

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Limerick cochetés: Our great uhr-Father from Africa

Our great uhr-Father from Africa
Hallowed be Thy fame in high Valhalla
	The Asian walk-about
	Down backbone coccyx snout
Who didst Thou mate...

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...Hoender - Afrikaans, Pulë - Albanian, ???? - Arabic, ?????? - Belarusian, ???? - Bulgarian, 
Pollastre - Catalan, ? - Chinese (Simplified), ? - Chinese...

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Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, Sereno and the Hausgast –XXXii Part Two

The duties of the Housekeeper in the U.K. par rapport au...

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They say
?There are a million ways?
To say I love you

In this day and age?
I could only find
?In my computer’s brain?
The words 
to say I love...

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makulit.paulit-ulit lang
ang pag-ibig ko sa’yo.
di nasasaktan.di nadadala
pilit nililimot,lalong lumalala
ang pag-alaala:
sa kahapon
sa ngayon,sa bukas.
ginagamot ng sampal,
batok, sabunot
at buntong- hiningang
walang humpay.
ng sigaw na walang nakaririnig,
kundi ang taong...

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Ho, ho, ho! 

There is this well written article, the link which I gladly give down below,
It is a most beautifully written anecdote of a...

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Dearest beloved country,
Treasured land of the sun,
The pearl of the orient seas.
Giver of my blood and spirit.

To you my heart do sing.
Dearest country of hope...

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Unquotable quotes – VI

(Note : A good many of the « epigrams » in this sequence of quotes are a take off on other well-known...

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