Long Dai Poems

Translation of " Those were the Days, My Friend " by T. Wignesan

Ces jours éloignés que nous avions partagés, Mon Ami

(A re-make of an earlier Russian song, produced by Paul McCartenay and sung by
 Mary...

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Egli in tal modo il proprio carro aggancia
A quello del bieco suo alleato
Che adesso verso l’est la sfida lancia.
He in this way his chariot hooks
To the one of his awry ally
Who now to east his...

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Son of the river Dai?an that flowed with much joy
Sailed into this world through ancient Edessa
Hear: He is the true harp of the Holy Spirit

Once a follower of the oracles of stars
Soon realized the dark...

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"Vision Zero" -- no more deaths from highway accidents. The idea was born in Sweden, where it's had spectacular success in reducing traffic fatalities. Now zeroing out all traffic fatalities must become an explicit U.S....

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Lines more lunatic than the sun – 9

for her 
who looks most beautiful in red orna
i’m carrying the best wishes of those lilies 
blooming on the iron-grill

When the blue-lotus is becoming more intense 
within the...

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BLUE EYES BLUE
Candle stick oh candle wick 
keep on burning true
light of love now come to me
from your blue eyes blue
you're the glowing halo in
all the dark that's me
in the hottest of your flame
it's a...

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It is noon on the day of the summer festival
Dai the gardener had used the rotavator daily
The grass was lush, green and level
Madam Clara’s fortune telling booth had been pitched.

The young boys were on radar...

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This Satanophobia makes me fear more
A jobless framework like a rust armour
From the arsenal of an old strong warlord
Surefooted to cut down a long strong rod.

Its an aframomum melegueta
Which its pungency hurts than a cutter.
Idleness;...

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Pa!   the soldier come! with 
gum and money and big big fun!
they like my aoi dai (dress) and
long black hair, 

Pa! I meet fella, stripe on arm,
big heart, big dollar and home have...

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with people all around me 
ic ant tell you how i feel about you
if i ever have a chance
i wouldn't know  what to say
becuase the way i feel about you
is greater then the world
and...

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Given have ye boons three:
Heart and head and hands two,
Enough ‘tis already,
I need no fourth still due. 
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Epigram |07.04.2024|
Poet’s note: Long ere, God once asked man to ask for four boons. This was before he...

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Hailed as the toughest exam in the world,
Piling pressure on teenage boys and girls.
Study, study, study
To get into university. 
Study, study, study,
The government doesn't care about your stifled creativity.
It's a rigid, elitist system,
Dividint students into...

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Kabeth Ka Njeri 
who is he?
why comment on your status?
why does he baby you?
today this one tomorrow that one?
am tired of your questionsis this love or what?why are you insrcure?
why dont you trust me?
loving u...

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When blackened at that time,
as the fate of this country,
In the Dai Nippon colonial era, 
the baby was born.

Childbirth is true fate.
breastfeeding as God's gift,
laudatory nature and remarkable deeds.

Nothing for partus sequitur ventrem, 
children born not...

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Whadidit usay?
A ale too far to sail on mar?
Ne’er too far for tha ner keday
And some kin jin us mestarar.

Neh join us there wit min an sord
to take dai in ur hansom handen.
We kanno come...

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