Long Peninsula Poems
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Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
peninsula, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
peninsula, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
peninsula, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
'continental Drift' - the Metaphor
'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor
In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...
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Categories:
peninsula, faith, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Resistance On the Iberian Peninsula
Resistance On The Iberian Peninsula
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),”
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads, 1
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 2
Who commands the French forces in wars raged across Europe.
The Grande...
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Categories:
peninsula, education, freedom, history, irony, patriotic, war,
Form:
Verse
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
peninsula, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
Predicated on his paying obese sense
to Ronald McDonald patron saint
buzzfeeding his pie hole
courtesy "two Big Macs, Fillet-O-Fish
and a chocolate malted,"
he hungrily nabbed the ?Tuesday,
November 5, 2024? election
ofttimes series of unfortunate...
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Categories:
peninsula, abuse, age, america, angst, bible, conflict, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections of Cold Wars
Dad is that you? What are you doing there in the mirror?
I am trying to shave and I don’t need any help.
Do they shave in heaven or is it just cribbage and...
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Categories:
peninsula, war, drug,
Form:
Narrative
King Vlad Redux - Second Cold War
King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions bespeak one who’s not an architect for peace—not at all,
rather...
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Categories:
peninsula, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, evil, international, political, war,
Form:
Quatrain
The Limerick, Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Plant Siren Wailed
The Limerick, Pennsylvania Nuclear power plant siren wailed
yesterday at 1400 hours December the fourth
and probably broadcast further
east, west, south and north.
That shrill ear-piercing
emitted sound quite painful
despite measurable diminution
regarding my audiological ability,
which loss of hearing
linkedin to...
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Categories:
peninsula, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety, community, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Vietnam In '68
Vietnam in '68
By Franklin Price
08/10/2020
January '68, I arrived at Cam Rahn Bay
Found out this place, in Vietnam, was the best place I could play
Ground bound, in the Air Force, and living on the beach,
On a...
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Categories:
peninsula, america, history, war,
Form:
Couplet
Who Would Milk the Tigress
Who would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless...
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Categories:
peninsula, freedom, mother daughter, peace, political, soldier, women,
Form:
Free verse
Democracy
What is this, what is that, who is this?
There are words that we don't repeat twice
Especially when we omit the little cedilla
Please, my country is an island, a peninsula
A very pretty country swimming in...
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Categories:
peninsula, america, betrayal, discrimination, humanity, mystery, prejudice, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Our Older Sister Lynn Ellen Dubarry Has Gone To Heaven
Our older sister, Lynn Ellen Dubarry. Has an aggressive form of Leukemia. She has been transferred to Swedish Hospital's Edmonds Washington, USA. Hospice/comfort care. She is on their 8th floor. I have requested...
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Categories:
peninsula, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Why Don'T You Leo
Death isn’t that significant, is it?
just like life is nothing peculiar.
The importance, however, is that life is given
to an individual only once and cannot be shared with others,
whether it was acquired through one’s...
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Categories:
peninsula, death of a friend, eulogy,
Form:
Epitaph
The Great Fish Maui Snared
With canoe and hook of a jawbone
below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga
(departing place of the...
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Categories:
peninsula, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Fifty-Two Plus One Hike Hypocrisy Part 3
People of the blue hill arrowhead new inroads settled the plum-rock if they would have known the thirteen crystal skulls would sing of disease prayer towns taken for granite People's Republic Taxachusett old...
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Categories:
peninsula, america, betrayal, black african american, devotion, history,
Form:
Free verse
The Best of the Night To You, Too, Bala - Part Two
Part Two
Do you remember your run-up to the crease
your Lindwall-delivery dragging the clasping flannel round hobbled boots
your anger
...
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Categories:
peninsula, friendship, night, night,
Form:
Free verse
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06
The defeated Pandrasus spoke out
his weary words weighted with wisdom.
Linus is as Greek as I am Greek and as a Greek
let him inherit the crown, I'll name no other heir.
take...
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Categories:
peninsula, history,
Form:
Epic
Manhattan madness
TS Eliot said, “Paris is a strong stimulant.”
It is - but it has nothing on Manhattan.
If Paris is a Café Crème espresso at a café-en-terrasse under the stars.
Manhattan is a ‘Black Tie Bawls’ cocktail at...
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Categories:
peninsula, city, family, food, fun, new york, paris,
Form:
Free verse
Some History
you like history here you go, a list of their history in short
740. BC The Assyrians cursed them.
579. BC The Babylonians fell asleep and remained for about 60 years.
70....
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Categories:
peninsula, history,
Form:
Monoku
What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About
Hmm...What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About...
Today (a rather brisk, chilly,
and otherwise sat
tiss factory twirly delightful
December 18th, 2018) matte
her of fact quite
refreshing noontime, while this fat
tend plot of Earthen surveyed terrain
situated over scat
herd modest...
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Categories:
peninsula, abuse, allusion, america, analogy, destiny, history, imagination,
Form:
Bio
Inferiority Is Complex
She had a masters degree,
from Trinity Cambridge,
was brokering deals in the city,
with overheard talk re. financial leverage.
Whilst I’d a diploma
from a,
“technical” college.
A photographic memory,
from heart she could recite,
the Shakespeare plays and
the...
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Categories:
peninsula, angst, books, break up, confidence, emotions, moving
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Diadem of the Land
A diadem of sovereignty, a symbol of royalty
made up of Unique jewel of valley surrounded by the rarest gold of Mountains
Waited for it's rightful place to dwell with all its treasures and troubles
After...
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Categories:
peninsula, poetry, political,
Form:
Didactic
Fantasy
"Beyond lychgate lies future death" she says,
cucumbered eyes slid back under cauliflower sky,
brimming smithereens of harkening demons.
Been in saddle some time since torchlight began,
a child's silent castle ago. Chaos-times cut alleyways
through rose-lettered circles, reads trashy...
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Categories:
peninsula, adventure, fantasy, fate, hero, imagery, magic, myth,
Form:
Lyric