Best Shanghai Poems

I am
in the middle
of meditation
in lotus position
I am
the reason
for you to leave me
Solitude
the big opera of God
a poets reward
You are
the unspoken complicated words
dancing far away
only dust and smoke
(Evolution pollution)
is on the way
and remembers
Big destiny waves
no one here
to see now
what I feel
I am a
Shanghai monk
in orange...

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Congealed upon the banks of this
tamed dragon sprawl stacks of crude buildings.
Concrete covers all but two glassy kings,
thick smoggy gusts give them a grimy kiss.
Insipid pillars choke sunlight, endless
roads incise the very earth, wings
of apartments cram into ev’rything,
ev’rywhere stacks upon stacks of units.
Herein lies the...

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A Shanghai building
Reflecting on the water
Soothing strings music...

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Upturned Chinese roofs
In a soft silhouette
Look so majestic
On top of the hill—
Encompassed in fog
In low light and shadows,
Quite simply surreal—

Boats filled with refugees
Fleeing Shanghai from
The Japanese invasion
‘Midst the chaos of war.
Gentle waves lap against
Boat hulls in dire contrast
To the noisy bomb blasts.

As shown on drawn...

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the old Shanghai,
that most devoted friend
doing a duty so faithfully, crowing,
rousing the farmer at break of dawn;

the proud Shanghai,
arrogantly strutting off, chest out,
white plumes advertising his place
among feathered brethrens in the farm;

the lusty Shanghai,
flirting with a harem of adoring hens 
if not fighting a rooster...

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I was living in shang-hai, for all you ever knew.
I stood by paper windows, for which the wind blew.
Glitter came past my ears, like a sing-song in my veins.
Tell me every secret, so I can feel the same....

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There was a carpenter in Shanghai
Who hanging from a roof beam so high
When he grabbed a nail,
He let out a yell
Everyone thought he would surely die....

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A rare good sou-L
at Mote-L Six 
who smel-Led different...

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A rare good sou-L
            at Mote-L Six 
         who smel-Led different.
               ...

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I had to lo-Ok,
saw, I kn-Ow her,
We're fr-Om Shanghai....

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Then she tell m-E
somebo-Dy took
her P-ink wallet....

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I dropped her O-ff
someplace d-Owntown
I kn-Ow about
...

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Gave same addres-S
like the la-St cab
ride S-aid. Same spot....

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Story she h-Ad
was a b-Ag like
purse A-nd not hers...

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IV)Next I had s-Ort
self-ctr-Olled and
my O-h fresh bills...

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