Long Nw Poems

Noddy"

It was on a holiday mrng
Sum1 at the door Barking..
I saw a cute puppy,,
N came out feeling happy..

It was beautiful like an white Pearl 
Looked delicate like an flower worl..

I called it near, ,As it...

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MY FIRST FRENCH KISSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

My first french kiss; I was lanky, skinny, barely fifteen
I had the hots for the popcorn girl, she was eighteen
She made and sold the popcorn at the Strand Theater
Our mutual...

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(Approaching Ingalls Peak, 2012, original oil)

Rites of Passage

Forty-six years ago,
my first winter in the Pacific NW
my first winter break at college,
I headed out to climb Mt Stuart in the North Cascades 
in the company of...

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(the so-called "texted" poem is below the translated one shown here on top. btw, not for the contest. I messed up & didn't know there was a line limit. did I even come close with...

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The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane,
    a fictional psychiatric hospital and prison:
part of the DC comics and first appearing in Batman #258, 1974,
referred to as the Arkham Asylum situated in...

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Is trust an emotion?
I pause jus for a moment hopin to
ponder
abt how ths elephant got to sitin 
on ma
shoulder
im supposed to b a soldier bt ths 
comotion in ma mind seems to
threaten my exposure
wonder how...

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Two hearts kissed, breathless
With joy, smiles, light…
Raining hope into the silence,
Whispering life through the soul
Who knows they will never grow old
Because their hearts are bound
By the mystery of their history
Together, abiding in the dream,
The freedom,...

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/? fju? ???rs g?n/
/? fju? m??r ?u?rs/
/ænd ?n?ð?r wi?k g?n/
/?u?r ju?? iz slipin ?wei in ju?slesn?s/
/wi m?ust t?im kænt st?p k?mpleinin ?v ?u?r fi?rs/
/mi?nw?il, ?u?r ?il?nd ?r in?ndeit wi? k?mpleint fr?m lis?n?rs/
/d??st ?z si? levls...

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I sat beneath the ancient oak in my back yard,
grieving and in sorrow at the age of twelve.
My best friend, Jessie, was moving far away.
I didn't think I'd ever see him again, 
so, I wrote...

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for Eric Mottram: 1924-1995 (not because of any debt, felt or incurred)*

one stroke a point
leftstroke bent
hooked
two a cover man

man enter eight borders to cover ice

table receptacle
knife strength
wrap spoon basket
box ten to divine
seal cliff private
also mouth...

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Oft'times I see my friends all 'round
Lke leaves of Autumn, floating down
And softly drifting, side-to-side
A passive dance, on zephryn tide

Then when the ground is covered o'er
A million leaves! A billion! More!
Each leaf contributes its full...

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Though the west wind is, often, wild,
It blows, sometimes, miraculously mild.
It seemed I waited for such a tender time, 
To my stubborn friend to send my rhyme;
A friendship that, once, divinely developed,
Why by fogs of...

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"the wind is blowing and the air is full with my note . . ."

                   ...

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future in2past neva bk we flow accordin 2tym,
aidn the paths of our lovestruck tears to run dry,
so i bicker wt emotion denying the fact that it dies,continuosly cryin askn maself why?

why has...wt ws once a...

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Derilict in duty, the sun refused to shine.                           ...

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Everyone has a dark side...shhhh but dnt tell anyone....
IM GOING TO TELL U ABOUT HELL ... ITS HELL RIDE..
Nw im alive...wit a vibe..to tell ma tribe tat i didnt gve bribe ,it was easy 2...

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when you wake up in the wee hours of the morning
	or, perhaps, if you were to wake in the wee hours of the morning
and pad with bare feet past your 
humidity-warped Georgian porch
to collect the...

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I wrote a letter to my father;
He didn't make it 'cause he couldn't.
It was my day of graduation,
How I wished he could be there.

"I got four distinctions and I was
Named the student of the year.
I...

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Ag?? (hunger)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a


Ch??? ch??? ka ? na-atà n'af?
Nw?? nw?? ka ? na-am? n'?kp?kp?
Ag?? b? aha ya
? kp?? ?gan? ? za g?

Ag?? b? echete ebeme
O nwegh? nne, nke o ji enwe nna
O nwegh?kwa...

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How thrilled was I, the strings in my heart trembled,
                         ...

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SICIMILE ISIBANI SAMI
Ibhalwe ngu :N.W. Mchunu

Sicimile isibani sami 
Sicimile isibani sempilo yami
Sicimile ngasala ebumyameni 
Sicimile ngasala osizini 

Ubuyisibani sokuphila kwami
Sona ebesikhanyisa kimi
Bengingesabi lutho 
Ngoba wena ubukhona
kufikile isiphepho somoya 
Sacima isibani sempilo yami
Kube sengathi liyaduma izulu...

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whn my eys got stuck on u for frst tym...
d whole world has become so full of lyf n i 
ws fine...
dn u hv ur eys on me n it makes dt more 
real...
n i...

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In a storybook long long ago
The pages filled with her and her tears
Boy meets a girl in San Diego
At a lowly  crossroad of theirs 

Like tumbleweeds blowing  in the wind
Both walking aimlessly along...

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everytym u tel me dt u nvr gonna change..
bt baby u hv forgot dt 2 faces of cards can tame...
everytym u told me u nevr gonna lie...
bt baby u shud knw dt telin a truth...

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Dike Alaa Mm?? (Maka Chukwuemeka Ike)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a

Gém gém gém gém!
Dùm dùm dùm dùm
Tìkó tìkó tìkó tìkó
Gbám gbám dùm dùm.

Ùgbòrò ab?? ka òkù na-akp? dike
? kp?? ya na nd?, ? kp?? ya n'?nw?
Ihe...

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