Best Thailand Poems

I once knew a Thai man
Who had an affair
And at the time he said
He did not care
Well it was not long
Before his wife found out
Now she didn't scream
And nor did she shout
She simply walked over
To the kitchen drawer
And pulled out a carving knife
Need I say...

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They are not from Chiang Mai,
they are a tribal people
who speak a hill language.
They ride through the night
on bicycles to settle at dawn
beside the Ping River.

Girls' unroll rattan mats
squat beside straw hats brimful
with the tang of burgundy chilies
They have vegetables
grown in lime green waters,
parched salty...

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T-he haven of beauty with its brightest tree- flowers strewn in bloom,

H-ailing as masterpiece in one’s heart overwhelmed in deep admiration;

A-pril and May are chanting in triumphs claiming their grandest season,

I-n kaleidoscopic colors arching a warmest welcome to every nation.

L-et your tarried gaze saunters for...

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Beauty and splendor,
the unoffender,
scenic blue skies,
masked a great disguise,
of one's intimate demise....

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Thailand endures rout
Record-setting 13 goals-
controversy brews...

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What is beauty?
What is paradise?

Is it in temperature?
If so then I'm too hot here.

Is it in visual sensation?
Here the sea is vivid blue,
and expands generously embracing wondrous unfathomable islands
Of a million greens,
The girls of every colour make my guts flutter and my eyes roll
sighs through...

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Visting Jazzee, my mate in Northern Thailand
      the sights i seen i can describe only as astound
        that i would only see once in a life time
      ...

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HELL OF THAILAND

two men beat their chests
contest of very hot spice
the hell of Thailand

first man’s sweat pours out
a linen napkin’s laughing
vainglorious plight

eyes of number two
tears streaming grow big and sting
vein-bulge vanity

admiring friends
cheer and jibe in kodachrome
racing pulse of weak

4/12/2018...

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‘Krasue’ 

(A woman’s head with viscera hanging down from her neck.
She paralyzes like ice-cold lightning).

Where will you be tonight when the moon is shut?
Woman hater, where will you be
when the womb of your soul is shut tight?

Krasue will chant these lines over your stunned body,
her...

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Thai's - out of respect,
may not look directly at you
until they are sure you are riddled
with the dead.

There are village ghosts and mountain ghosts,
river ghosts and jungle ghosts,
some ghost haunt each other
and form clouds in the eyes of children.

The ghosts of Thailand 
tend to linger...

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‘Krasue’

A woman’s head with viscera hanging down from her neck.
She paralyzes like ice-cold lightning.

Where will you be tonight when the moon is shut?
Woman hater, where will you be
when the womb of your soul is shut tight?

Krasue will chant these lines over your stunned body,
her incubus...

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apricot tea in Thailand
breakfast fruit set up on balcony
welcoming rain greeted us
I felt grateful that I had come
this gentle ambiance worth remembering...

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Trumpeting sounds of elephants
Pleasant rides, tricks, and children’s chants
In a place called Thailandia
The tourists come from Sandia
They visit their uncles and aunts
Ride the bulls, play, touch, watch them paint
Unaware of treatment, restraint 
A few people saw the dark side
The brutal industry must hide
  ...

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I am an old man
a deep well
an epoch marriage
a raven haired beauty
five above average kids
Orion deckhand and cook
teacher of the year
Bible study leader
jail preacher
song worship leader
NAU graduate --graduate school
ASU graduate --undergraduate school
life guard
breakfast cook
English tutor
Archie Brokeshoulder's well puller 
grain elevator operator
pizza chef
dishwasher
mental hospital patient
prisoner
welder
all region...

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Sad Detritus It In Eight

Sam Adams looked back
at the lost loves
Failed opportunities
And monolithic blues
That he concluded 
Was the sad detritus of his life.
He sighed and went out 
To the Cosmos bar for another drink....

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