Long Firecrackers Poems

Now in my time echoes
  I remember then
  my full days in a life
  when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow 
  much greater 
  at the gates of...

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I was walking on a green field when a cyclone came and picked me up,
He wrapped me in dark whirlwind, so I screamed that no one could ever stop;
When he was annoyed, he dropped me...

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It was an unusual trip that was planned,
stranger still that my Mother-in-law was the reason.
A wonderful woman who was liked by all who knew her,
kind, gentle, hard working, and grateful for the gift 
of reaching...

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The sun rose in the east creating a bright orange hue
Tom lay in his bunk thinking, can it really be true? 
The good townsfolk had agreed Tom was a key player
And decided that Soup Creek...

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It was a time of great and exalting excitement,
Until the country was again up in arms and agitation.
The war was on,
Indeed tough and elusive,
Era has made it way;
The melody of birds singing in the trees,

Had...

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Fought with the law
                               ...

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Welcome to Shamukuni Street,  
Where the city breathes in vibrant chaos,  
Police sirens whirling,  
A symphony of urgency and defiance—  
Each wail a reminder,  
That life here never sleeps, ...

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Here's a little story that needs to be heard
about an old couple who lived in the hood
firecrackers blazing outside there window pane
folks had insisted the couple was insane
take heed to the reader as best as...

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“Mommy,” I cry,
    desperate for kindness.
I don’t like her;
    why did you leave me here?
I’m tied with blue twine,
    both hands and feet,
forced to sit on...

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Children of Xenophobia

Children eating bullets and firecrackers 
Beggars of smile and laughter 
Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams 
Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans 
Overstayed exiles eating beetroot and African potato 
Abortions and condoms batteries...

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This cosmos, indisputably is a sheer wonder
We cannot but bow before its grandeur
To what strange terrains it does open its doors
And what secrets are hidden beneath the stars

Man has ever been impelled by an existential...

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Gliding hands dancing on your spine
Playing melodies in your hair
Soft kisses delights in making discoveries
I see your soul clearly

I seize your face gently reflections shine 
within the mind softly brushing 
deeply plays a tender loving...

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I look up to the sky, while the sun is going down,
A flock of pelicans fly, beyond the seawall mound.
Stars peep out of the dark, from the eastern brim,
The crescent moon marks, streaks of heavenly...

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<                             I'm going on journey ~ back...

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Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS LAM HSI


Pride-ta-start...'n-bloom-ta...bloom...when-it's...
All-time...star...do/your...sil-ver-'n-blue...
Check-er/D...flags...
Give...way?

Pride-ta-start...'n-bloom-ta...bloom...when-it's...
All-time...star...do/your...sil-ver-'n-blue...
Check-er/D...flags...
Give...way?

When-a...scent-ed/rose...drifts-past/Main...on-an-air-y...
Sky-less...night.

And-a...crack-of-thun/der...roars-your...in-ner...beast!

You're-the...bet-ta/beat!

Beat-'n-beats...a-thump/'ng...an-a-thump/'ng!

You're-the...bet-ta/beat!

Beat-'n-beasts...a-thump/'ng...an-a-thump/'ng!


Toss-a/worth-less...sil/va...dol-lar...to-a...pride-ta-shame!

When-you...toss-a/worth-less...sil/va...dol-lar...to-a...
Pride-ta-shame!?!?

Ti/ny-fire/crack-ers...bloom-ta-start...'n-bloom/past...Main!

She-pet/als...straight/past...Main!

Ti/ny-fire/crack-ers...bloom-ta-start...'n-bloom/past...Main!

When-a...scent-ed/rose...drifts-past/Main...on-an-air-y...
Sky-less...night!

And-a...crack-of-thun/der...roars-your...in-ner...Beast!


You're-the...bet-ta/beat!

Beat-'n-beasts...a-thump/'ng...an-a-thump/'ng...
You're-the...bet-ta/beat!

Beat-'n-beasts...a-thump/'ng...an-a...thump/'ng!


Ti/ny-fire/crack-ers...burst...ta-first...an...check-er/D...
Flags-drop/in-to...first-place!

Ti/ny-fire/crack-ers...burst...ta-first...an...check-er/D...
Flags-drop/in-to...first-place!


D-A-N-I-C-A!!!

D-A-N-I-C-A!!!

PAT/TRICK!!!   PAT/TRICK!!!


SHE'S...FIRST/PLACE!!!
SHE'S...FIRST/PLACE!!!


Poet's Own Notes:

WE ALL LOVE YOU DANICA PATRICK...YOU HAVE INSPIRED
THE NATIONS!!!...

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In my bed I lay
Here I want to stay
Let my mind wander astray
In to an ordinary day.
 
My father persists
‘Up now, you will be late for school’
He greets me with another
Breakfast to go.
Pops is on...

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I'm crestfallen in the shadows 
of my raging firecrackers 
when you're far. 
I'm embedded 
in the gaze of
your tempting 
Silicon Valley.
Dumbfounded 
by the cabbage
twists and turns
of your deceitful 
twilight eyes. 
my raspberry! 
The howl of...

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I haven't slept the past two days. But that's okay. 
I like to cry. You know I don't like daylight anyway.
Our talk about the weather and the schoolday show that we care.
Like a sound I...

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Breaking of a new dawn we all await                           ...

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It is about that time
when firecrackers start popping
small bombs exploding and
flares shooting out beautiful colors
the night sky will be an extravaganza
for a few days and a lot of exploding noises
during the day, it is the...

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wild fires on Table Mountain

	spread their ugly flames onto

		the University centre of learning

	old books in the ancient library

smouldering ashes of bygone wisdom

student quarters burnt just the same

	nature does not discriminate or does it

		when readers fall...

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Banyoles

With borrowed funds 
And broken hearts
We hitched a ride with the country’s realm,
Running, stupefied with pungent balm.
Through London swarms and Navy shops
We lavished on ponchos 
And swagger.
We met an astronaut that day,
On a bus to...

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As I sit and throw sticks on the fire,
    And watch as the flames crackle and grow higher.
The fire illuminates the shadow of the trees,
    Giving them an eerie...

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I have a best friend.
He doesn't speak English, but
He lets me ask him anything-
He's got big brown eyes that watch
As the world goes by like falling stars-
He just watches, always watches...
He's too warm for North...

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so you’ve met a storyteller, 
one who sits down & is able to enthrall as little as 
1 or as many as a 
group, with tales of their lives, however remote, however ridiculous &
they help...

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