Long Pagodas Poems

Written 19 November 2023
No. 1259 New Poems Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Stand

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Sunflower Meadows was a place of mystical beauty, green and abloom.
That's where seven-year-old Ava lived, like laughter and spicy perfume.

Ava lived with her parents and three siblings, like stars dance together;
And she loved golden, nursery...

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Based on the famous linguist, poet Humayun Azad Sir's poem "SAB KICHU NOSHTODER ODHIKARE JABE". However, it is not an exact English translation from Bengali. Edited in different places with tense. Apologies for any mistake...

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seagulls surf the wind
my escorts home
across the waves

                  streamlined gannets
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Born of smoke and fire glow
In those blazing summers of long ago
Little mountaintop pagodas
Wooden cabs with cute cupolas
Guardians of the grand Sequoia
Douglas fir and ponderosa

Where vigil kept with eagle eyes
Spotted smokes of wildland fires
Called the...

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City across the water, night by violet aurora
Los Angeles, we're further south than I thought (than we should be)
I take a strewn-bark trail to get a better view
Hand me the camera, Polaroids in quick succession...

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50 years ago I would have said
life was swollen with promise
as I awaited your return
from a land of bicycles,
Pagodas, potato vendors
and "Hiah, Hiah, Mushee, Mushee,
Hononea, Hononea."*

40 years ago the struggle
almost killed us both,
swimming against the...

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o yes
let there be flowers garden on the land of
mosques, temples, pagodas, guruduras, churches....

yes, there I find same
sands, stones, bricks, walls, domes, prayer places....
and same human kinds, ethics, moralities in the scriptures for spending earthly...

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Here by this lake, the willows weep;
Dawn light awakes from deep dark sleep.

Pagodas stand: twin radiant calm;
See bridge arch trend with distant palms.

The waters flow in slow cascade;
Sense a bright glow in fluid parade.

Picturesque view...

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Return! Return!

The men You seek Are Dead

Return to your Ashen Pagodas

For now there will be no more bloodshed

No more cries at night from the widows.

The Widows!

Where are the Widows?

Lying next to their husbands bones

Their bleeding...

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I.	O my children,
	All the faithful,
	Heed the call,
	Hear the sanction...
	The ancient eldritch plea
	Gathering from the thousand shadowed places,
	Plazas, pagodas, pavilions...
	Reach out, summon in communal ritual
	The quencher of your thirsts
	Slayer of want

II.	Moving through the smoke of October,
	The...

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My magical Chinese garden
was small:
tiny willows
pagodas
and mulberry trees
emerging serenely
from the mist
pastelwise
like Shangri-La over and over
on the far side of
an equally diminutive stream
under a parchment sky.

Slipping unnoticed over the footbridge
at the top of the stairs
I’d wait...

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By lakeside path
Such windy stuff


Feel the cool breeze
Funnel fond squeeze


Sun now sparkles
Fluid lake dazzles


Glimpse far away
Sensorial play


Twin pagodas
Flash agenda


Park bench welcome
Stray chirpy psalms


Mid morning walk
Silence now stalks


By breezy lake
New flash points take


Transit trains move
On timely...

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HOME, HEARTS,AND SEAGULLS 

Home to the heart of me
Never in violins, never in clouds

But always in smoky blue skies
Above seas spinning white waves of foam

Sunsets never let me down
Evenings always bring me peace

Moonlight and pagodas...

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