Best Pei Poems

When you were gone so far away
Our communiques didn’t waver
The skyping proved to be okay
All of your words I still could savor

Though nothing changed I...

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Inhaling and exhaling life
one Marlboro red at a time
those devil sticks
sucking the liquid from her face
wrinkles that could put a
Shar pei to shame

despite battalions of...

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Birthdays are a *****
I don't want to get old that's true.
Rows of wrinkles like a shar pei
Thinning hair looking sort of blue.
Heart and Hearing not...

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The Asian community is scrutinized,
Blacks are killed and cuffed on the street.
You’ll order Pei-Wei and Big Bowl,
Then scope them out, target practice.

The very people arresting...

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I avoid florists, not the people,
who generally speaking,
are polite and quite unremarkable.

I write of those floral gangsters;
the vainglorious gladioli,
eugenically forced greenhouse geraniums
with their large shar-pei...

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The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver...

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The Rottweiler

I wouldn’t provoke a Rottweiler
Not unless I were prepped like a miler
Seems a little inbreeding
Done without heeding
Has turned Benji into a Sieg Heiler

The Saint...

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(Dedication: For my nephew 
Yong Chye and his wife Su Pei)
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Wonder finds joy in love most true,
Explore each day the path of cheer.
Thrill funds new...

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Greater times were spent before the winter solstice.
Before there were the wreckage seasons of my life;
   There was happiness all around me.
 ...

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the wrinkles on your own hands

 

(no matter how many lotions you have rubbed on them, no

matter how much vitamin e oils, no matter how...

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I fought and they got me
I’m dying me friend
Doctors have warned me
Now I fear this is the end

It seems so easy
I do declare
But if you...

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Previous winners were Elie Wiesel,
Mother Teresa, Bob Hope,
Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks,
Walt Disney and a Pope*…

B.B.King and Yo Yo Ma,
Dylan and Pearl Bailey,
Frank Sinatra, E.B. White,
Tom...

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My goal in life is to be like Betty White.
Funny, beautiful yet so intelligently bright.
I love to laugh when she speaks of her age.
Reading her...

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He avoided florists,
those over-cultivated blooms
in their overheated shops
seemed to be a perversion of nature.

He shunned all those floral gangsters;
the vainglorious gladioli,
eugenically forced greenhouse geraniums
with their...

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Lot fwa-la, mo ti pe tann enn bann dimounn pe diskit lor Sikse.
Boukou ti pe esey definir seki sa ete.
Sakenn ti ena so version...
Ena ti...

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