Long Heer Poems

Stately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...

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A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen
 
By Elton Camp
 
 
	“We keep thet big flock o’ chickens fer eggs and meat,” Milas explained to his niece Elvira visiting from the city.  “We git...

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Male Voice  
When I see,                    your charming face,   O love,
I feel proud of...

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Pleasures of Moving on Moon


You have always charmed us by your beauty, O Moon,
Sometimes fascinating Heer and Ranjha*, and sometimes,
Mesmerizing Romeo and Juliet.

Sometimes you have spread your charms, on the monuments of Love, 
Alluring the...

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At times, I look up at the sky
And a thought always make me cry,
"Why is it that the earth can never meet the sky"
"Even though both love each other since millions of years that ...

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The Herbalist:-

She deals with herbs,
She collects the rarest herbs,
She creates new drugs,
She burns the weeds,
She smokes weeds,
She bedecks her bun with flowers,
She allures us with bluish ferns,
She looks beautiful in each turn!!
She is the bewitching...

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Senryu and Poem, below:
I
Autumn, dawn, clouds, lake:
Flutter of white storm - trash?
Hundred cowbirds: commute

II - The Poem:
Maybe some 200 cowbirds-
All white with adapted, heron-like beaks -
Flutter as leaders honk instructions
Above the misty waters:
Autumn here has...

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"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary
 tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

                 ...

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Here was a boy
& there was a girl,
He was shy
& she was pearl,

The girl never loved the boy
but the boy always loved the girl,
The boy was fine
& the girl was divine,

It was a day when...

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I was the moonlit night of lapid love
Some confused lores of a tortured mind
A tongue to tell, to speak of truth jogia
Then to live in shades of encumbered lies.

No soul enamoured in this wide world
That...

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Highbrow Singing Ain’t Fer Me

By Elton Camp  

I heerd some guy’s the best singer who’s ever been
So I went t’ the theater and paid a bunch t’ git  in 
This ugly man come...

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D-arkness has just turned
I-nto a break of sunny day; 
A-nother dawn is shining, 
N-ight chill has gone away.
N-ew morn has broken, when the sun starts to ascend; 
E-arly lights fill the sky as I feel...

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Cheer and shout for joy the Savior has been born
		Came into the world on Christmas morn
He came forth on Christmas day to bless this world
		The life of the Messiah was unfurled
Rise with Him and rejoice...

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Th’ edge o; dark
Foor th’ sun fund cant noather heer nor theer
Jorrum honest fooak creawded
Teawn shrinking abweat ‘em
Witch, bawls eawt “th’ coomin on still”
Witch, bawls eawt “Odsweawnds oppen”
Fo’evile Moytherd id’ sowl
hoo cosses yearth.
Dule Onsertn
by that...

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Thoughhhh 
speelingly errorful 
ahnd synhtactically grievfuos   
mye fhunny poetich myus
gigggglesss widh heartyiest ghlee… 

Heer yee thenh 
mye seencere komendhation
Aplouding mye dearh kid’z pleazant
dailhy spreehh showhn hbyh hisz hjoyhouz countenanz*... 

Joyfullest ammongst theh blisfullest
Ghladdest...

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D-ry the tears off your eyes, 
A-llow them not to fall; 
N-ight won't last forever for trumpet soon will call.

E-vening shadows will fade, 
V-ile weather will turn fine; 
A-fter the storm has gone, 
S-oon sun...

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D-on't take away the pleasure
O-f birth that you feel; 
N-ight shadows disappear, 
N-ew dawn warms the chill.
A-llow the pleasure to stay, 
L-et it not evaporate; 
I-t's truly comforting, 
N-ice, joyful and great.

M-ake the pleasure remain,...

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Kom wind, kom weer – Kom oseaan
(Geïnspireer deur Laurika Rauch se lied)

Ek droom van my eie huis eendag by die see
Vir Laurika eentyd was dit nag
Myne staan ook op ‘n rots: maar dis dag
Daar in...

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Music was playing
one of those
ole love tunes
people were dancing and kissing
like lovers on
there honeymoon
I to hold my tongue
cause what wanted to say
my date may have gotten offended
and simply walked away
Squeezing heer hand
I asked for a...

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M-ore often than you used to, 
Y-ou count every blessing; 
C-alling on the Father's name, 
A-sking for a fresh morning.

J-ust always wear a smile, 
O-bliterating the mare's nest; 
Y-our hearrt is filled with joy, 
C-heer...

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J-oy brought by her husband
U-shers her to ecstasy; 
D-ay twenty-three of September
Y-earns to give great glory.

G-ladness brought by her husband
A-dds to the amount of mirth; 
L-etting all the throes turn
I-nto fun caused by birth.
C-heer brought...

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Somewhere it fires in the water
Somewhere it dances on flame
Somewhere It starts zamzam
Somewhere It is Qais
Somewhere It is Farhad
Somewhere it lushes
Somewhere it ruins
Somewhere it is a Heer
Somewhere it is a dream
Somewhere it is sacrifice
Somewhere it...

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R-ejoice in paradise, 
E-cstasy and rapture remain; 
Y-our heart feels the mirth, 
L-eaving the cold chill and rain.
E-ndless excitement brought by birth is a thousand thrill; 
N-ice and big celebration offers delicious meal.

O-n June fifteenth...

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F-elicity fills the day, 
R-eloading with euphoria; 
A-ugust sixteenth early morn
N-ever breaks in dystopia.
C-heer completes the day, 
I-t's a total happiness; 
S-atisfaction of life
C-auses one
O-verflowing bliss.

E-xcitement packs the day, 
L-ife's loneliness I fight; 
S-unshine in...

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J-oy of Anne shall gladden
O-n twenty-sixth September; 
Y-earning to share the thrill, 
C-heer is comforting
E-ver.

A-nne's joy shall gladden, 
N-ever will it cause pressure; 
N-ice feeling is truly brought, 
E-ither esctasy or pleasure.

S-weet Anne's joy shall...

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