Best Oman Poems

...A transgender child
does not not exist 
just because a white man 
says that that is so
as two spirited
third genders 
and others
(eight in the Talmud! that I didn’t know)
exist around the glo......

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...One hundred years ago in 1921
The 15th of May a new charity begun
Amalgamating  charities of which there were  4
The Royal British Legion set up to aid those from the great war.

Earl Haig and T......

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...Mohamed Bouazizi,
a poor man
who sold produce from a cart,
in a country bleeding from the open wound of corruption,
got up that morning
expecting to do nothing more
than support his family with......

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...absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare stand in the way

of its progress......

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~ Sndita ko Muslim ~
·
Badn khalalayami
a Biyaloy a sndita
o bala tano sa ingd
a ophoon ana mbto
na sndita so Muslim...
·
Na ba ini babago pn
a oman pha paromanan
i andang dn ko ingd
......

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...From Tripoli to Cairo
I saw the intifada leftover
After Tunisia and Yemen
Like a dam broken
After it had sucked life from dry sand
Morocco, Kuwait, Djibouti and Oman
I heard birds singing at the clif......

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~ Ginawai sa Kawang ~

Ginawai sa kawang
a dayo sa bitiyara
a bolayok a miphantag 
a dariday a mapanton
a kakasiyan i lalag...

A kena a kalalagan
ka matanos i kindolon
a ongangen lang......

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...America, so vast and the land of the free
Brazil, carnivals and beach beauties

Canada, untouched, with the mighty Niagara Falls
Denmark, with the mermaid, luring sailors with her call

Egypt, ......

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...If you ask me, who are my favorite
Teachers at school –well, I’d say there are six;
All of them are good friends too, you know –they’re
Like a box of assorted chocolates!

Miss Latifa is Black A......

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OMAKAAN A-KO MAN

OmanOman PharOman,
Na PhaParoParOmanan,
Na Di Pman Phaka tOman,
Ka DithOman so kukOman…

Na Omakaan KOmakan,
A Kha kana-Kana Kanan,
Na eNdawnonEthOman,
i PadOman ZarO......

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...The Star of Oman
By Joji Varghese Kuncheria 

The star that dawned the horizon,
For five decades is gone for ever, 
But the legacy is going to remain,
As a beacon to lead generations. 

The p......

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...I'll wrap around the silk of each day
until I will become core
to your time

I gather you up speck by speck
rumor
flutter
tear
I wait a becoming
bitter song
amidst the lips of the night

When the roa......

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...Or Woman, Or Child, Or...

The following elucidated
     conjecture actually can
(reed best) be taken with a grain
     of salt, and no re ban
nah nah split 'ope ya 'ere me 
     cloud and lea......

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...Scars Left Behind

As a slave I was a product of the broker,
and a commodity as a result of the purchaser.
Both of them made me to be,
valuable and hunted like honey bee.

Hunting and ambushed done i......

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...Greetings to each of you my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Please read these seventeen blessings rendered for you in God's grace:

I. May God’s love for the new year grant you joy and inspira......

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