Long Burmese Poems

Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...

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Film Noir

By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...

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The Marvellous Moggy
By Jan Beaumont 

There's something for which most of us all share a great affection 
A thing that's like a living welcome mat
While some like dogs for comradeship and sometimes for protection
A lot...

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Once, 
About ten minutes ago in the year 
2006 or 
2549, depending upon which avatar or
 Messiah is consulted, I  
 Tumbled out of my bed to the 
Untranslatable 
Predawn
 Cackle of 
Frantic voices
Descending.
...

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For many people outside the Myanmar poetry, it may come as a surprise that there is such a thing as language-oriented poetry contemporary poetry scene in Myanmar. The Poetry of the bourgeoisie and the "art...

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Mach my words, that time travel aye
foresee (rather than being 
     at a stand still, nee frozen 
     analogous to cry

oh ja hen nicks, or more particularly...

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Dear Blabby
	There is a matter I must get off my chest.  I am due to marry in the fall, but now have cold feet.  My fiancé is a lot brainier than I am....

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When I watch how you so gracefully move,
there are not enough words
to describe how I feel about you
This is just my unabridged heart speaking true
Adminiculate ...
Here is the evidence, the supporting proof:
after all these years,...

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It was hot yesterday. How hot was it you ask?
It was so hot outside that I'd rather be in class doing math,
It was so hot when I heard a joke that was funny I actually...

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To my dear Ruqiya(Bu Bu),
Up in heaven
Happy hunting ground
And we are all sending our prayers.

To my dear Ruqiya(Bu Bu),
We all miss you today
You're not dead, you still alive our heart
Your life is so long.

To my...

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I'm late to the 
Meeting on purpose.
My back left paw
Needed 10 or 12 
More licks.

Another write-up
Headed my way.
So what?
None of us can 
Write or read anyway.

The Society is not 
What it used to be.
The Calicos...

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Fidgety Cats And Feline Pets

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Ghosts, Hosts’ with the mostest 

 

In the House of the dead, Ghost's roam their home they once lived before becoming spirits. 

Crickets serenaded near their catacomb; Tree's creek buried deep in loam from the...

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My respected teacher
She treated me like a parent
Kind and caring for me
She made my life heaven,

She taught me
How to write and draw
She taught me
How to read and how to use 

She gives me many lessons
No...

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Peter loved his wife Carmen Lúcia
                             Their...

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in the Everglades there are dangers galore
alligators, crocs, rattlesnakes, and many more….
a cottonmouth aka water moccasin would scare me back to my car
could be bitten by a brown recluse, looking for its violin scar

baby florida...

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if i really wanted to... 

if i leave u at a roadside , in the middle of nowhere...
and drop all of your stuff at random points...
if i flood your house with dirty toilet water...
eat all...

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There are many flowers 
I can compare you to
But I cannot remember any of their names
You may taste like a fresh fig
Or you may smell like jasmine
And you may look like a Burmese princess
But my...

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I ate at a Burmese restaurant
in Chinatown
and had a decent meal
nice and spicy
just the way I like it

I grabbed a couple business cards
so I could remember
where it was
and just because
I like business cards

Now I am...

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Useless Money 

I often get petitioning letters so many people trying 
to find a place to live and only receive a bitter refusal 
and see their children die of thirst and hunger. 
I wish to...

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let me give you some history of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
is that Burma?
it used to be

they won’t let us have more than two children
they persecute us daily
we cannot travel freely and are...

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The Project


Son's science quest,
insect nest finds;
school's best project.

Saves in his room.
Wakes to doom when
with gloom, he cries.

Hundreds now crawl.
Every wall sports
hatched small mantes.


Sandra M. Haight

~9th Place~
Contest: Than-Bauk on Human Folly
Sponsor: Marugu Mo
Theme: Foolish and Funny
Judged:...

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the Burmese tiger blew the lid off of her intellectual thinking mind
an incredible dendrite explosion that was felt throughout the land
most of us shuddered, not knowing exactly what had happened
but recognizing it would have an...

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Coffee, autumn of gypsies , symptom for light , under the bridges , besides how we think deeply part of materialism,
great path -far away from softness,
supplement of waste, unruly politeness,
if the feeling hurts mind ,
Do...

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