Long Flower girl Poems

"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...

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THE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

					

I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been sent to cover an international gathering
Sessions so long and dull...

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I was captured by
her luminous reflection,
Her face dressed in
a forlorn beauty
as she looked beyond 
the stars and wept,
each tear a memory 
of Love's affection
memories that flooded 
the heart in pain.
     ...

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My childhood of the 1960's,
all those years ago,
feels like a Saturday in my
journey nostalgic.
The Cowsill's song "Flower Girl,"
their purity of song, of smiles.
A daydream streams,
of running in a field wearing
my Keds,
a sea of daisies and...

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CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Creamy Melons
by Chao Luan-Luan
translation by Michael R. Burch

Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration,
like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp,
aroused by desire, yet soft as cream,
fertile amid a warm mist
after my...

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Let’s just call each other  Ra and Nut  ok?  
      No need to be formal here behind the pyramid.
      I tell you,...

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Children toil with their buckets and spades sculpt castles into the sand

In joy and in innocence they build towers gates draw bridges and moats

Know deep in their hearts that the tides are stronger than fortifications

Nothing...

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From time to time, people ask me
About my education.
Only then, I remember
I have no degrees or diplomas.
I attended no university either.
I hated textbooks and exams.
I still do.
That's bad education, they say.

But they don't know
I was...

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Weddings most often take place in June because...
a. It's the traditional month 
b. More flowers are in bloom then
c. Mother's coerce their daughters to choose it
d. As a little girl, it was the bride-to-be's dream

A...

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I was just four when I discovered that some grown-ups cry.
That’s because I saw my mommy dragging my daddy down the stairs,
Her eyes so full of tears that they fairly poured down her flimsy nightgown.
Daddy...

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Dear God,
This is a letter from your queer daughter.
Wait, hold up did this girl just say queer?
"You are not a child of God!" Someone shouts!
Oh shut up! This is my letter.
Anyway you know I grew...

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The world is quiet here
Yet growing louder by the day
Renting paradise from vultures
Split amongst two flavors of instability

I clamored and dreamed for that golden armor
That title that would cement my name in history
To be a...

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I am dead without my love.
It is simple as that.
I cannot breath without her,
I cannot eat without her,
I cannot write without her.
I cannot live without my love,
I am dead without my love.

I cannot prosper without...

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Good memories of our brother Tom,
I remember growing up with Tom.

He is  my favorite brother,
When we came to Canada and he was born.

The beautiful days together, 
 When Tom was a baby.

I used to...

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Beside a gilded wall of white a dainty bench is resting;
Victorian accents swirl about the ornate room, providing
An elegance, a beauty in each line and curve, attesting
To cultured tastes and upscale life, and hours spent...

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A young girl runs around the park looking at flowers.
She looks at them and smells them. 
This littler girl eyes lights up.
She sees all these yellow flowers and started to run around.
She goes through them.
She...

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Having sharp teeth yet she does not eat with these                         ...

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I awakened about midnight in the middle of the day.
I was crawling swiftly toward you as I slowly raced away.
I hummed a merry melody that truly had no tune
As I ate my cup of coffee...

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The Fairy Tale Wedding of Prince William and Sandra


     Married life ahead
          Future wonders and unknowns
      ...

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People ask why does she wear white? She's a bride. 
A bride in a lovely white dress. 
Do you not see her bouquet of flowers in her hands?
Flowers all gathered in a bunch. 
A bouquet...

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Teddy-bear
Day-dreams
Of a
Flower girl
Full of
Blue eyes,
White lies
And a

Smile
I see
Everywhere 
I go-
Her ghost
Is good at
Haunting
And she
Left
A long time
Ago
But

I see her
Again,
Not in some
Mirror-whisper
But in other
Flower girls
With their
Teddy-bear
Dreams:

This one
Wears a
Sweatshirt 
Like a
Shield;

That one
Disappears
Into songs
So she can
Ignore
How her
Tummy
Rumbles
When she
Sleeps-
She doesn't...

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If you happen on a field of roses…swaying in the afternoon sun
It is often difficult to discover the individual beauty of each one.

Today I’d like to introduce you to one particular flower that I chose
with...

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She was just a girl
All that time she was dead
Now she lives only for the money
Only for her lover Ag
She thinks hiis name is magical
Oh and what she would give to him
To be loved one...

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Dimonds are not beauty. Beauty is people and things unknown. Things unknown that swirl around in a young child's mind and happiness amounts to a flower crown made for a small girl with the soul...

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The biggest day has come, the day we say our I dos and means we will be spending the rest
of our lives together. As you stand at the alter and the music plays our flower...

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