Best Tabu Poems
Shoga Atoka UlayaJuzi juzi tulikuwa tunakutana
Kwenye mishwari tulipitana
Hili na lile tuliambiana
Menzangu ukaenda majuu
Kufika kule ukajiona wewe mungu
Uliotuacha huku nyuma ukatufananisha na vyungu
Haya yote yalinifanya nihisi uchungu
Lakini usijali siku hadi siku Nitarudisha zangu nguvu.
Umerudi jana, kimya kimya unaogopa kurogwa
Waache kurogwa wenye mahela Urogwe wewe...
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Categories:
tabu, emotions, environment,
Form:
My Favorite Scents(I tried to fashion the words a bit to the tune of “My Favorite Things”)
Roses and lavender; lilacs abloom;
Scent of these flowers also in perfume.
Old-time Chantilly and spicy Tabu -
These are a few of my favorite scents too.
Pizza and home-made bread straight from the oven;
Bacon...
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Categories:
tabu, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Forbidden AttractionSucculent tabu
Not meant from the start.
But attraction, too great,
Played its role well.
And found our eyes
-as fast as it found our hearts.
It did away with my defenses
Working its way through me
I had no chance-no choice!
I succumbed to this fatal
attraction
Losing complete control
I grasped the face of...
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Categories:
tabu, romance
Form:
Free verse
The Green Card BluesA faded old passport, withered and torn a picture of a infant child of three
The faded old passport that was once was green happy and alive hope not dispirited
nothing more than a dark past.It is tabu one must never talk about those things.
Musty...
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Categories:
tabu, family, old, green, old,
Form:
SmellingOh for smelling when lavender’s in bloom
or sweet roses and their pretty perfume.
Chantilly I love to have a whiff of.
Tabu is so sexy – a fragrance I love.
Bread in the oven is so nice to smell
And buttery popcorn at movies as well.
Smelling lasagna and...
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Categories:
tabu, senses,
Form:
Rhyme