Best Southeast Poems

Iberia, you took my breath away
with fiery gypsy spirit and romance;
with ancient Moorish history and grace;
with everything there is of you to see;
to hear and...

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I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS QUIET
           (It’s too late version)

When all the world is quiet
	And...

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Philippines, my country of birth,
one of the countries in Southeast Asia.
It is an archipelago or group of islands,
with more than seven thousand islands.

Luzon, the largest...

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What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the...

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I am....
An Ashanti warrior A Bantu dancer 
I am a Yoruba royal clothed in my Asooke 
Dancing Adowa and kpalogo to tunes from wulomei and...

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Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of...

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“They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife”
    ...

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Rising sun so soft,tender
like your forehead's red bindi
splashes colour in my mind
another new dawn.




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Contest name--Red Sun

Date--- 24th June 2013


Bindi--A bindi ( Sanskrit bindu, meaning "a...

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Each night I dream, I dream of you
Despite we are so far apart
By thousands of miles across seas
And mountains, time zones and the winds.

You left...

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Hailed as “Pearl of the Orient Seas” is my country
God has blessed her with bounty so richly precious
Including a glorious, peculiar history…
That really makes me...

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(Internal rhyme)

One week of peace, I’ll watch the geese,
 Maybe fly southeast, or maybe southwest,
It will be their quest, I’ll be their guest,
 As geese...

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You’re hailed as “Pearl of the Orient Seas”
The Creator* has blessed you with rich bounty
Including a peculiar history, indeed great…
Making me thankful for making you...

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What do you know about a nightmare coming true and a dream being just a dream?

What do you know about things looking one way, but...

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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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