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Where Are You Now, Gloria Dubbins?
...Gloria Dubbins - not much of a name, but trust me on my judgment, gentle reader; in terms of Beauty, she was Hall of Fame. We’re talking – let’s see – nineteen seventy-two, but I’m the keeper o......

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Categories: kurds, nostalgia,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Weathervane
...Ngo Dinh Diem thought America was a friend That turned out badly, he met a bloody end A State Department cabal thought he denied human rights They pulled the plug and turned off the lights JFK ag......

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Categories: kurds, betrayal, character, courage, freedom,
Form: Lyric



Trump Poems and Epigrams Vi
...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI Poets laud Justice’s high principles. Trump just gropes her raw genitals. —Michael R. Burch Dark Shroud, Silver Lining by Michael R. Burch Trump cares so......

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Categories: kurds, america, christmas, political,
Form: Rhyme
Kajal Ahmad Translations Kurdish
...Mirror by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet loose translation by Michael R. Burch My era's obscuring mirror shattered because it magnified the small and made the great seem insignificant. Dictator......

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Categories: kurds, arabic, bird, conflict, earth,
Form: Free verse
Fly In the Ointment
...Donald Trump is a flimflam man You look where he points so he can Give Russia an edge The Ukraine the hedge Whilst Kurds get the Turkey trepan!......

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Categories: kurds, political,
Form: Limerick



Let Me Give Her Diamonds
...Let Me Give Her Diamonds by Michael R. Burch Let me give her diamonds for my heart's sharp edges. Let me give her roses for my soul's thorn. Let me give her solace for my words of tre......

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Categories: kurds, valentines day,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Politics: Trumps America
...The wildly obnoxious things he has done, Things Tweeted from the toilet each day, The bigoted, racist lies of a clown, Put on full public display, Show that he’s got no idea what he barks, ......

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Categories: kurds, political,
Form: Quatrain
A Smart Kid I Once Knew - Not Funny Comedy, Stayed Alive In Poetry
...I have always been curious about people from Kurdistan I wonder why they are called kurds I wonder when the kurds would become keese Just like curd becomes cheese I wonder if birds are called “bi......

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Categories: kurds, boy, feelings, fun, funny
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Impeachment Fiddle
...While Congress plays the impeachment fiddle ~ Ukraine and the Kurds get hey-diddle-diddled......

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Categories: kurds, america, history, music, political,
Form: Epigram
'tis the Season
...Trump Towers in Old Istanbul Influenced our President's pull Brown skins do not matter So let the Kurds scatter And enjoy the Turkey Shoot Cull......

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Categories: kurds, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member They Didn'T Land With Us On the Beaches - In Trump's Own Words
...I’m sure I’m quite right, I cannot be wrong, I was always so bright. My memory’s strong. I well racked my brain, Considered all facts And with consummate strain Followed the tracks. The......

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Categories: kurds, angst, humor, parody, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I'M So Over This Kurdish Thing - In Trump's Own Words
...In my infinite wisdom I tell you this thing, In this here my kingdom Will the pendulum swing; One minute the Kurds So cute in their garb, The other the Turks With their venomous barb. T......

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Categories: kurds, allegory, death, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Restore the Princely States
...Restore The Princely States ------------------------- Free the Balochs and Kurds! Sikhs want Khalistan. Jammu is culturally separate And so is Kashmir; And so Ladakh. (Their religion is diff......

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Categories: kurds, arabic, political,
Form: Free verse
Long Before Isis
...Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small nation......

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Categories: kurds, friendship,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Exclusive Birth Rights
...Exclusive Birth Rights I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration though I propose wit......

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Categories: kurds, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse

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