Diamonds can be of stunning glittering white,
I own one and it's a blue sapphire I admire;
it doesn't cost more than a Ferrari or a Rolex watch,
I bought it after drinking half bottle of scotch!
I wore it once at a black tie gala and I got noticed many times;
are diamonds, villas, cars, and watches the primary wishes
of wealthy men, but not of ordinary ones? Do they mean
a lot to them: when they lay lustful eyes are on gorgeous women?
I envy that guy filtering with an elegant high society lady,
she gives him all the attention of an Emir totally ignoring me;
hey, I'm wearing a blue sapphire I bought yesterday at Tiffany...
to get the attention of Lena winking at Paul, but avoiding me!
Do I deserve this expensive stone? Is it fit for my posh status?
I don't own yachts, or villas on the Amalfi Coast, I am not a guru!
I keep talking and showing it off, nobody cares even green-eyed Sue!
And angrier than an ignored clown, I turn greener than a cactus!
An old, gray-haired emir from Yemen
Preferred courting underage women,
He kept a list
Of those he kissed
Banished those he considered a lemon.
written June 26, 2021
E-pidemic
M-ystery
I-mplements
R-isk
A-s
G-rime
A-voids
N-eatness
Topic: Birthday of Emir Agan (May 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Spiritual regeneration and universal intelligence
Neptune in the 9th hour invokes lucid dreams
and third eye visions of intuitiveness oh
Lapis Lazuli in the shadow of a frosted moon
I become omniscient like the great horned owl
to Samhains’ coming Ostara as the ebb and flow
of sacred aqua return now from the Titus-Bode
In this verve century of Emir and the pious
bloodstone a new cognizant cycle begins
signifying the great divine Eden once again
so does sayeth Sanskrit and the winged prophet
in the midst of indigo radiant and hallowed oh
in the 9th hour of lucid dreams I become visionary
just like Enoch in the shadow of the moon
spiritual regeneration and universal intelligence
of Neptune.
He razzed Iran’s chieftain emir
Cotton's had his writing premiere
The paparazzi
Might call him a Nazi
But he's just a smart profiteer
Author's note: This young senator reminds me of someone who might have attended a Hitler youth camp. Fear is his opportunity. While he is strangely self-assured, he is on the same side of the nuclear negotiations as the Iranian hardliners. He doesn't go back and talk about the time the USA overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran and installed the brutal Shah. (Even if that information is critical to the relationship we now have with the Iranians.) If talks fail we know there will be a short term benefit to certain groups. Are you affiliated with them, Senator? Follow the $$$.
Mauritania O Mauritania
I work for the emir in Mauritania
My father worked for the emir in Mauritania
My grandfather worked for the emir in Mauritania
My great grandfather worked for the emir in Mauritania
My great great grandfather worked for the emir in Mauritania
But I don’t want to work for the emir in Mauritania
My father did not want to work for him either
My grandfather was loath to work for him
My great grandfather was forced too
My great great grandfather had to
They were all forced to labor
For the Emir of Mauritania
Mauritania, Mauritania
Why slave away
In Mauritania
Oh why?
Why?
Tell me poets of Mauritania
Tell me poets of Africa
Tell me poets of the world
Tell me why the children
Of Mauritania have to
Live their lives
In a time warp
Dressed as
A cast
Sys
Te
M
?
Rondelet: Democracy
"I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens." Emir (Nemanja) Kusturica, director and scriptwriter (with David Atkins) of the masterpiece: Arizona Dream (1993).
Democracy
One vote cast is carte blanche cast out
Democracy
Feeds small men constituency
The one-vote majority clout
Enough to send tough troops all out
Democracy
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012
A salute to Emir Turkey from the land of Turkey,
On cheap bowls of chinko par boil rice,
Milk teeth cracked the sturdy tampering legs,
And hoary heads and lifeless eyes of chicken,
Now yonder where the rest gone;
Lads loved licking lollipop spirits,
In multitude of colours in toys and shimmering wisps,
Golden planets and blinking galaxies stars on fir trees,
A delightful fairy world feelings in decorations,
And reminder of the citizens of universe we are.
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