Do we as writers create emotional bridges
...As writers, are we all but seducers of the minds of others
We silently kiss in friendship
As they read one of our poetic gifts?
(À lone voice whispers)
Do we as writers create emotio...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish I Could Leave
...I dreamed about the snow-topped
Pines of Michigan
Wishing I Could Go Back
And See Them Again
I dreamed about the voluminous
Mountains of California
Wishing I could go Back
And take someone...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Buddha Meets Christmas
...Down the fervent aeons Buddha’s sagesse,
casts its august shroud on benign witness,
shades, shadows, subtle symbol shift,
encompass cosmopolitan and temporal,
incongruous to flaccid predilection ...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, august, celebration, character, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Orchid Woman
...Oh you know the type—
the orchid woman
a cosmopolitan who cosmo sips
between snips of gist
her charisma a starship —collides
with your star-full eyes
supernova for Casanova
her pouty lips kn...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, beautiful, imagery, irony, power,
Form: Free verse
Confluence
...Streams mingle with rivers
And rivers mingle with oceans
while oceans reconcile the distinction
Like humans converging from regions
Civilization marks a local population
Originating back to ...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, appreciation, culture, immigration, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Kuala Lumpur
...Oh Kuala Lumpur, city of contrasts
Where ancient and modern, beautifully coexist
Your towering skyscrapers, a sight to behold
A modern metropolis, that never grows old
From the iconic Petronas ...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, appreciation,
Form: Ode
Sing With Me My Darling
...Oh Mary dear honey, My sweet little beehive loving you as you carry our baby. whose mind is linked with frog-eyed spirits from within the smoldering sun. In this sheltered home in a land of mystique ...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, desire, film, freedom, friend,
Form: Free verse
Reading a Memory
...Begins with Rupert Bear,
Until that was found too square;
Then Just William came on the scene,
But soon became a childish has-been.
Youth-filled reading,a melanged mix,
Biggles & squadron,sixt...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, childhood, literature, teenage,
Form: Bio
Memory Lane
...Listening to her talk about past times was thrilling. Going down memory lane wasn't what she liked. Embarking on yesterday’s plane wasn’t her kind of person. She was too busy for such diversions. She...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, death, family, farewell, grandmother,
Form: Haibun
Silvia Queen of Sweden Our Queen
...A noble woman
among the nobility...
humanist in
humanity...
humble in the middle
the superb...
Solidarity inside
of the sick world,
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, allegory, allusion, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Compassionate Education
...Back in the day
of exclusively straight white male
****-retentive missionaries,
the Church
Whether monoculturally Catholic
(which may become an oxymoron
one enlightened day)
or Protestant,
...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, christian, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Mayo and Fries
...The whole world knows that
Adding vinegar to chips and fish
Turns the whole offering into
An almost Earth shattering dish,
But how many people know,
How many people realise
The amazing effect ...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, food, joy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Berlin, September 1962
...Berlin, City of Espionage;
split by a wall, divided into four
only approached from the west
by road, rail, and air corridor.
Still carrying traces of the Berlin
of Isherwood’s thirties days
so ...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, adventure, history, international, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Fish Rots From the Head
...Fish and chips and a pint of dark brew.
Malt vinegar and lashings of salt.
A fish dinner served up
by a truck in a newspaper cone.
That was then, that was before
taste buds got hard boiled,
b...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tour De Force
...TOUR DE FORCE
so enjoyable
flourish
in a cosmopolitan
complex
spanning
the compulsive so
sombre in a deft
narrative
untangled
in panoramic moments
of sustained intimacy i
tonall...
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Categories:
cosmopolitan, poetry,
Form: Other
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