Long Khalifa Poems

Tell her you saw me ...

Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...

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tell her you saw me ...

tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its...

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CALL ME THE BLACK GOLD OR THE HANDSOME DEVIL
How did you find me, my undeterred and awesomely daring love?
When I flew away into time years ago like a dove.
And you sat upon the cold rocks...

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RAPPERS & LEGENDS IN THE UFC

In the Octagon, where fists collide,
All Eyez on we, the view is worldwide.
This battle's a wild mix of might & rhythm,
But when the ref calls time, it's all for a...

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I am ...

I am the black shine of a dead stare
      I am the reticent pallor of the moon's caste
         and the...

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Beware of politicians whose active manifesto
Is always to speak ill of other candidates and opposition parties.
They are the real problems!

Beware of political goons and rumour-mongers, spinning allegations 
Twining civil questions, yakking all day but never...

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A dry peninsula without internal flowing waters
anointed with the ointment of incredible prosperity
massaged by the fat hands of uncommon wealth
and covered by tight-fitting over-alls,
made out of an expanding economic might.

One of its regions has been...

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Sundar Pichai-CEO of Google.
Satya Nadella-Chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
Arvind Krishna-Chairman and CEO of IBM.
Shantanu Narayen-President, Chairman and CEO of Adobe.
Ayapal Singh Banga-Chairman and CEO of MasterCard.
Parag Agarwal-CEO of Twitter.
Sandeep Kataria- CEO of Bata.
Pratyush Kumar-Vice-president of...

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If you ask me how tall I am…I could unequivocally state…
without giving it much thought…that I am 5 feet eight

And that answer would be correct…most people would contend…but on most days if you ask me…I...

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I
Just
Stand
Here
alone.

Factually,
A feat,
A pinnacle of
Engineering at almost
A thousand meters high,
A colossus, an omnipresence  
Comparable to God-
a man made concept 
advertised to exhaustion.

Amongst concrete caricature
cliche’d into postcards and keychains, I am
The subject, the focus and distinguished...

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Miss, you can wait!
He came in, 
Then never came out, 
I think, 
I believe in a few minutes, 
It would be over, and he would be out 
Thirty minutes passed,
An hour
Two three, then he would...

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Worst at its worst..it will come first
Blood ties or drinking ties there is a connection even still
Tho storms be as dark..it will stand out as snow
Cold as it may be but so white and soaring...

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For the years to come I want you to be upstanding 
Cheering me on as I'll be picking up my accolades 
For the hard work that I've put through the years
It was a matter of...

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The man,
the actor, Will Smith,
turned himself 
into a verb 
with one stinging 
"heard-around-the-world" slap 
across Chris Rock's face 
at the Oscar ceremony.
Whether he likes it 
or not, he's now 
a guaranteed verb,
 at least in...

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