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Long Afghani Poems

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Not a Poem This Is a Short Story
There I was just chillen with all my homeies in the big zip block bag. We were all talking about the latest ozome spray, and we were wondering if it would work on us, since...

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Categories: afghani, fantasy, me, sound, me, sound,
Form: Verse



Blue Print
the blue print glows back at my sight
it's getting clearer and clearer  
and it isn't in my rear view mirror 
like eddie said 
it's straight ahead 
the thirteen are  anxious about revolution 
they...

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Categories: afghani, blue, creation, dark, destiny, riddle, wisdom, world,
Form: ABC
Songstress, For Nadia Anjuman
Songstress
by Michael R. Burch
 
for Nadia Anjuman
 
Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkness: all it knows
until at last it feels the numbing sting
of death. Then...

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Categories: afghani, allah, eulogy, poetess, poetry, poets, women, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Fall of Afghanistan
Just like dominoes, Afghanistan falls;
It was only a matter of time.
American soldiers cash in their chips 
And head home on a jet plane
After two decades in the trenches.
An unwinnable war is done,
So is any semblance...

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Categories: afghani, conflict, horror, places, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Camp Bastion Nights
I have listened to,your stories
Heard your talk on Human Rights
It’s warmed the cockles of my heart
On many a Bastion night.
The next time I come across, 
And I know I surely will
The indiscriminate victim
Of a Taliban...

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Categories: afghani, abuse, betrayal, discrimination, sad,
Form: Rhyme



Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a country at war.
We fought by their side for 20 years
To keep the Taliban from 
Destroying families, destroying lives.

We taught them to be independent;
We taught them to fight for their country.
After 20 years...

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Categories: afghani, war,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Hint the Worlds Around Thy Name
Ha! Ha! The first letter’s the last,
 Like the zinnia, the zho, the zufolo, the zoo of animals, the zebra of Sahara, or the zeal of youth.
The second letter’s the first,
Like the Kashmiri apple, the...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afghani, love, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Childhood Revisited
A three-year-old lies in the dust naked and hungry
While a civil war rages around him in Ethiopia
An Afghani teenager lives every day with terror--
Her future more tenuous than the government
In parts of the world where...

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Categories: afghani, america, child, childhood, conflict, perspective, world,
Form: Rhyme
Amazing
AmazinG courageous heroes, Rangers, Seals and Delta Force of AmericA
Militarily defending freedom and liberty against  radical,  jihad  terrorisM
Around the world defeating all evil men with an Anti - American  agendA
Zemzem flows...

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Categories: afghani, america, courage, hero, military, patriotic, soldier, tribute,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs