Long Sah Poems

(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,

Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss 
By...

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The fine art of making excuses

which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
to be deported),
but necessitates more than a facile effort
linkedin to a working knowledge
of familial...

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Only so pleased by sacrifice
Proffered through sacred flame,
Graceful gods do give gifts of choice
So deserved by unselfish aim;
He that eats fruits by them bestowed,
And gives not so in turn,
Who gets, not so does earn,
A thief...

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I always said tether to the void
Not any idealistic reason or choice
Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid
Because how can one speak with an inside voice
Where no one can hear you outside yourself
Dawn of...

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After becoming confident 
(das ernest frank gent) handled ignition
jerryrigged knobs, levers, motors, 
nameless other parts quintessentially,
set registers to “understand” vital www xy zone.
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A blitzkrieg capstone detonated explosive forcees
generating horrendous instantaneous jolt, 
Krakatoa lost mighty noise,...

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The Bad, The Ugly and The Good  (aka: Bad, Badder, Baddest)


The Bad
I am the gun-toting, God-fearing Ganja Gangsta.
I’ll smoke you, pray for you, then have my daily siesta!
I answer to no one, and fear...

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Ein kleines Kind (Satis Shroff)

Es war Fasnetzeit,
Der Winter wurde vertrieben.
Die Leute trugen bunte Kleider
Um den Karneval zu feiern.
Isolde war gekleidet als ein Harlekin,
Mit farbenfrohem Kostüm und einer Blume
Auf ihrem Kopf.
Sie sah ein kleines Kind vorbei...

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My Story
Kese bayaa karu ye dard dil ka
                           ...

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LAWD GAD!!!
WEY YU SEY?
WI BOUT TO EXPERIENCE ANOTHER EPIDEMIC!
NO SAH!!!
WE CAAN TEK IT NO MORE
SO GWAAN BOUT YU BUSINESS
CAR-RONIA…CORONIA…COVID-19
WHATEVER YU BE!
WI HAVE 999 PROBLEMS BUT COVID-19 AINT ONE.

DAT DEADLY FRIEND, POVERTY
ALREADY A BOX WE LEFT,RIGHT...

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IS DEATH AN IGBO MAN?
Quietus: ‘Nna Grave, this is Quietus 
from Vaults and Sons International.
My containers don arrive?’

Grave: ‘Yes Oga Quietus. From:
—Cairo—Syria—Boston—Kangan—
—Somalia—Monrovia—Sudan—
—Iraq—Afghanistan—Pakistan—Congo— 
—Russia—Yemen—Israel—
—Ivory Coast—Rhodesia—Burkina;  
but some of the goods (carrion)
were mutilated, 
and left for...

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Step by step I entered a room...
Step by step I approached my chair...
Slowly, people entered the same room...
Slowly, they approached their own chairs...

As the room was filled,
the lights dimmed out...
As the people quieted down,
curtains at...

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Forever who’s in my thoughts, she
Alas is indifferent to me,
And for someone else longs,
Whose heart elsewhere belongs,
And that someone in turn loves me!

Fie to such devious love indeed, 
Scorn to my love’s lover, 
And his...

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Holy books differ, differ their adage,
No one sage whose word is a standard gauge,
As roots of virtue deep down lay,
Wherefrom the wise walked be the way. 
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Translation |06.10.2024| scriptures, path of virtue, ...

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Carol Brown
Contest Name	My First Car 
Vanguard ute

I got meself a motor car, 
a little ute, a Vanguard,
I was seventeen, yes sah,
low flying and sliding here and there,

Me an brother Mark were a going fishing,
At 75...

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A stony gut mi come from
Long march through the bruising night
Vex in mi soul without rum
Me in dis Morant Bay bright
Deh yah since broad day mek it lights
To seh me is man fe mi rights

A...

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1930s Dirranbandi Mucky eye fix

Coming back from bloody Cobar,
 where the dust storms used to blow,
came the mucky eyed with Sandy Blight,
as the mucky eyed do go,

back in the thirties - forties,
Ning-a-Ning Joseph saw em,...

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Joys thrill upon suffering grief,
In dense darkness lamp’s light as if,
Good days all gone, should one get bad,
All alive, poor soul lives like dead.           ...

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Raising hands, hoarse do I cry, 
No one hears, nor bothers to try, 
Wealth and wants be had by virtue, 
Why not then that’s what ye pursue? 
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Translation |01.09.2024|
Poet’s note:  At the end of...

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DIALOGUE

PREFACE:
It was the dawn of a new day;
knowledge and truth sought and given.
As I gave, so was I again taught.

(Ask, and it shall be given)

Student:
“Teacher, same said Egypt ina Africa
lak ina de Bible?”

Teacher:
“Same said Egypt,...

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That man alone seems charming,
Who a fancied lass finds fascinating, 
That poem is a piece of art
That captivates a reader’s heart. 
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Translation |12.01.2025| man, woman, poem
 
Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom...

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Heidenrod 8 (Zorn) Germany 
1984
 Nach vielen, langen Jahren,
sah ich die Heimat wieder.
Es scheint noch immer
wie ein wunderschöner Traum.
Die Erinnerung wird weiter leben,
in Zeit und Weltenraum.
 Seltsam, wie das Dörfchen
sich verändert
und ich alles anders fand.
Herzinniglich...

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Not so done for brotherhood’s good,
Charity nor for truth you’ve stood,
The day you fuss, your failure fret,
That be the time ought ye regret.
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Translation |12.09.2024|life, truth, charity, brotherhood 

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands...

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Who so maligns a noble man, 
None but his own self tends to stain,
The ash thrown over head,
On one’s own head gets spread,
O indulge in no smear campaign.
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Translation |28.01.2025| wisdom,  

 Poet’s note: Sanskrit...

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Ex Drover, me

As the cleaner sweeps the street,
And the saddle leather squeaks,
cos he's riding ol Darkie,
an his mind is with the herd.
He remembers the cold nights,
Leaps from his swag at daylight,
To stand by the fire...

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Konnte nicht schlafen also folgte ich einem Gefühl / es führte mich zu einem wohlbehalten Fluss / unbewacht ließ ich mich nieder / hörte die Natur und wünschte mir, ich könnte sie in mir verstehen...

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