Long Meer Poems

How does it feel when they are gone, your mother and father, when life is just a dark tunnel of useless feelings, the way they seem to come to you and drag you through a...

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Ich such dos shtetl
Wos mer wird zogn
wos mer baj zejn vergongenhejt
nich reizn, wos mer zogt,
wo sejn di wolkns, wos is geblibn
vun de zejt mer hot nich mer gehert.
Mer zogn leben,
gezejtn zogt mer zej dos mer,
wo...

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Ugh, Why Must The Missus Vacuum At The Crack Of Dawn?
(circa: early December 27, 2018 morning)

There appears to be a
virulent (possibly deadly) strain
of housekeeping virus
Hoover ring in the air
asymptomatic tentatively linked to rein
deer droppings (micro-organisms)...

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Konkas draw a blanket over the flats,
but our state live like over fed fat cats
Zuma had another great opinion,
now we must dream of a Rand reunion

People crying, life’s an uncertain fate,
but they are building another...

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Ek wou nie wees als wat ek kon 
wees,
Ek wou nie meer 0800 gedoen het 
as ander,
Maar ek moes, om 'n beter 
toekoms te he.

Troep maak seker die 
vlag op jou linker skouer waai 
altyd...

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As jy jou pyn buite wys 
sal vriendelike,
Irreterende vreemdeling 
jou inlig dat die wêreld 
aanhou draai.
En hulle is reg.
Dit doen.
Maak nie saak hoe hard jy 
dit smeek om te stop.
Dit hou aan draai.

Ek word wakker...

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If angels could see me now you would see;
A furiously jealous tear fall from each of their watery eyes,
A malevelent and scheming smirk crawl across their faces,
You could see the agitated gripping and ungripping of...

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Her love is more than a small child’s first word 
My mother’s heart and love, one in a chord 
She lived all my childhood dreams in adore 
With wisdom and love allowed them to soar

When...

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Having successfully seduced Zeus with his boyish beauty,
Whose eagle's claws captured the once mortal soul,
He was blessed with immortality and endowed with divine duty,
To bear cups and have filled to the top his bottom's bowl.

Had...

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You must learn self control
Because if your heart Continues
To beat obnoxiously
when you imagine
My pink lips softly parting and calling your name
Or when you close your eyes
And dream of the way my hips sway
Thinking of the...

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I've died and resurrected 
countless times in the 
name of love
Painfully swallowed my 
pride so that I could have
Have all that  which I asked 
from above
Today am axed,Tomorrow 
I  ask;
Love!why do you do...

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Sometimes I ask myself why ?
All the love deteriorating, Christ it needs you to rejuvenate it,
All this anger in me like poison has intoxicated me,
My dream are saturated with vicious visions of your blood in...

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Wens van die Nagtegaal

Die tering knaag en groei aan my; elke uur en dag
Obsessiewe abses met ‘n kompulsiewe smag.
Grou ‘n gat en maak maar plek; vir doodsangs in die nag
Wie sal huil? Wie sal treur?...

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Verdwyn 

Gespruit en toe vergete met gewete van papier
Besluit te neem om als te los wat hierso agter bly
Eers drie; toe een; toe twee; toe vier
Die som van toekomsblik vir jou - maar eerder meer...

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Lieg 

Herhaaldelik en gereeld soos net in 7de laan
Was geheimnisse en liegstories die haat wat uit jou gaan.
Ek natuurlik, onderskei, kon binne in my voel
Oortuigend jou nie glo nie, soos water van my rug afspoel.

Vermydelik...

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Nacht

Im Schweigen verborgen,
die Nacht in Einsamkeit.
Ein fernes Licht 
wandert langsam,
verliert sich im Meer der Sterne
wie ein Sankorn am Strand.
Wiederkehrende Träume
ziehen ins Endlose,
dann wieder Stille.
Gedanken wandern unruhig
in eine andere Zeit


Night

Hidden in silence,
night in solitude.
A distant light
moves...

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Kronkelpaaie van gister
Ons almal is gesnoer op die paaie van gister
Sommiges probeer nog ontsnap: Net meer bewuster
Nog kronkelpaaie lê voor: Oor die maanskyn-flou
Gevangenis steeds in die skadu. Wilde winde rou

Spons-gewete sus en treur
Voel ek die...

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You and I
We were two seeds Just like each other
Things that made us different came later
We were germinated in the distance of some time
You got nourished and cherished by the world
I got abandoned and neglected...

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Couplets
by Mir Taqi Mir
loose translations by Michael R. Burch

Sharpen the barbs of every thorn, O lunatic desert!
Perhaps another hobbler, limping by on blistered feet, follows me!
?Mir Taqi Mir, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

My life...

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He shall never dampen his morals following blemishes in them pointed out.

It shan't bother him for the meer fact that the misting off opinions of others do not concern him.

For his vision to not dim,...

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Meer Bai (1498-1546) was a Hindu mystic, musician, poet, and saint. She was born to a royal house, but gave up all privilege to live as a beggar, singing of her true love Krishna along...

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Gee my jou hand
Iets om vas te hou
Gee my jou hart
Iets om lief te he

Gee my jou lippe
Iets om myne besig te hou 
Gee my jou wange
Iets om te maak bloos

Gee my jou voorkop
Iets om...

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I look at the sky, just wish you were here
Memories so dry, my eye has no tear
So I can’t cry, and my voice you won’t hear
And as much as I try, to show no fear
I...

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Vor Himmel und Meer
Wie Inseln auf weißem Sand
Schatten des Pandanuss

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Before sky and sea
Like islands on white sands 
Shadow of screwpines

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Enfrente de cielo y mar
Como islas sobre arena blanca
La sombra del pándano


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Die Stille der Nacht
Wie bunte...

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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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