Long Peking Poems

Unquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI

Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...

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The three enigmas of Turandot

The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary, 
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.

The Emperor's daughter,...

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Let's talk honestly together
about our divinely-inspired inter-related concepts,
like color,
of God's unlimited multiculturing powers
for healthy resilience
and growth of Positive ultra-violet Energy,
yet on an increasingly finite feeling and self-feeding planet,
limited by overpopulation of anthros
powerless to sustain life
throughout...

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I kept looking around to see if I knew anyone in this town but everywhere I turn I see the goal post digging and the people are singing Their faces have grown old but their...

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We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim,
From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas,
They need a good reason to compete in life's game.
Consider cats: They school us in hygiene
Licking their paws and their...

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If I were a prisoner on death row
just hours away from execution
I would NOT order a meal of calamari with ratatouille,
filet mignon with truffles and Strawberry Sherbet.

I would reject a plate of Duck Liver Terrine...

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Growin' up on the Hoosier farm, Mom fixed very simple chuck.
(We'd never heard of pate de fois gras or crispy Peking duck!)
But never mind such sophisticated and fanciful cuisines.
I'd much prefer a steamin' bowl of...

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A terrifying creature,
This Valley Pond duck,
Attacking innocent Chinese cooks,
Who should have had better luck...

I dedicated my life
To killing this damn duck
That had pooped on my head...
Oh, my God, what yuck!!!

I was forced to wear a...

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Sitting and waiting in a field full of olives is not a bad way to spend an hour but an hour can be long and long is a length and a length with a leaving...

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Thomas Turkey is trying to avoid the dreaded chopping block!

He's trying to become inconspicuous amongst the teeming flock!

As you thank the Good Lord this year for your many blessings,

Nothing would taste sweeter than Peking duck...

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When we were children, he played half a part in growing.
He was always sure of himself, forever knowing
that if he worked hard, and devoted himself for us,
he would be sure to provide a life that’s...

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Autos whizzing by 
   streetlights and apartment lights cut through the shadows
TV is off - I pick  up a pen 
Sit down - write another poem
  Tomorrow a poetry walk in...

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Snow... Its falling
I found a white wolf it was well fed
I went up to it all of the sudden I hear a gun shot
The crows are flying covering the bright blue sky 
The wolf runs...

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Villanelle : Who’s not racist, do stand not up, please

        for Piers Morgan & Anderson Cooper

Who’s not racist, do stand not up, please
   Isn’t S/He who...

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Kidnapped. - for Peeking Through The Keyhole Contest

The hole where the key’s meant to go
Was vacant so I had to know
What was outside to be seen
But my captors weren’t all that keen

It seems I succumbed...

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So far I've done everything I could possibly do this year.
I've given thorough thought to cleaning up my act.
These early-day hours have been rough-house
The storm shudders inside me are all grimy, they need tending to,
I...

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Why do you look upon me with reproach, 
two-eyed fried eggs? I swear, only hunger
and hopelessness have led me to encroach 
into the kitchen. The quite pushy monger,

who sold me a used cornucopia
from China, promised...

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A duck-billed platypus
Is bathing on the bus
She left her favorite stream
To join our swimming team

She did so well last year
Her lane was free and clear
Until the final leg
When Platy laid an egg

The hippopotami
Don’t eat the...

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Lodger in my heart

I found rather strange people in my heart,
among those closest to me,
hiding and peking true white cels of my blood,
stiling all those red one!

Then I thought to myself,

What should I do to...

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