Long Sey Poems

Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.

I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...

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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.

Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...

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After amala and ewedu,
And after the round two of egusi and fufu.
Na im my eyes come dey pinch me,
Small small i dey close am.
Before i know i don dey doze,
Wetin we dey talk? I don...

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This poem is written with a fair of Jamaican Patois but I hope you all get the drift.


Cow Cock Soup


Boy things a get bad, really sad.
Went to bed last night
Mi wife feeling fruity
Mi eyes get...

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She's Wet VII Continued

When she gives a cough or a sneeze 
Some wee trickles down past her knees 
Her knickers are damp 
She smells like a tramp 
Dashing home so nobody sees 

Written by Jan...

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PEOPLE DOT COM

The nightingale sings
With full-throated ease.
The tree swings
In its majestic way.
The lion gets its prey
For a good meal story.
But whatever I do,
I pause to think about
What people will say.

I am a Jew
In love with...

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Mussiro Ramt one half of
" The Arabain Knights"
Made query into ownership of
the $!!!!!4!!!$ World Championship.
He arrived at the scheduled
appointment at the Offices of.
$!!$!!$ in Montana. "I stumbled
back nearly falling: at the sight of
him". "He was...

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Na im one day i carry my car commot for
house,
As i dey go na im i see one man dey shout.
'Stop there,stop there',he dey tell me,
Wetin concern me; i don go!
Na im wen i come...

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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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Teacher sey mi stupid 

I wonder if a hol' a gun to her head she would still think I am stupid?

Because I don't come from upper St. Andrew mi nuh have the right to a...

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Transportation,  Mi sey transportation
School transportation, Mi sey transportation.


Transportation of schoolers, We can’t ignore
Parish Council and T.A. open the door
Dem open de door to safe highways
Drivers, come mek mi show you de way.


PLAN NUMBER ONE,...

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Them sey the land nuh level and a true
Yuh calling on the judge to grant you mercy 
 Yuh kill mi son and now yuh ask fi mercy... mercy ...mercy ...what mercy !
Yuh did grant...

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This world is full of noise,enough to burst,
your mind and destroy well being lust,
noise from traffic on ground and air,
from telly,s ,radios and everywhere.
Gies a break we aa bellow,
makin mair noise for fellow,
humans who walk...

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siiri üç ayakli sandalyenin üzerine birakip
yari çiplak bir küfrü lavaboya kusuyorum
yüzümün yarisini aynada kirip
ebem kusagindan bir ölünün
yanlislikla yarasini kanatiyorum
vaziyet sizdim kabugum kirilmisti
kemiklerimi bakir bir sinide kana bulastirip
ellerimi kesip pencereden disari atiyorum

susuyorum melenkolik bir sigintiyla
askilardan bir...

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You for noh
Say I dey shine my eyez
Coz na so so wahalla wey dey shine for my head top

You for noh
Say na I jos dey parade my gari den granot
So sey hunger no go kill...

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Mi Plead Di Blood  (In Jamaican Creole) 

Satan!  Guwey!  Mi plead di blood pon yu aready
A wey yu tink?  Yu ano Freddy?
Mi no fraid a yu.  My God sey, Him...

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I don take my eye look every 
mata
come conclude sey life no 
make sense
to sense

those wey dey shit for house 
no sabi
read even those wey dey 
feed  
the children na olodo

If  person no...

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Heavy summer 

After the month of Rani i hold my mothers hand 
I asked for a story she making me bore with my childhood which I had been listen 
She then laughed and said I...

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Yuh come inna mi office
come tek out mi tings 
yuh bright!!!!!!!!!!!
Mi nuh undastan yuh!!!!!!!!!!

Mi sey to miself...
"Lawd, mi a go forgive him....see di good side"
but nooooooooooo......
yuh come, nuff up yuhself and TIEF!!!!

Bwoy o bwoy....
ghost know...

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(noitide treah ruoy ekat) meop das a ekam ot tuoba ma I
(eno dah reve I fi) ytilaer fo esnes ym tsol evah I taht eveileb od I
(ti yas ot detnaw tsuj I gnihton sneam siht)...

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Pichli shab ki tanhai mey ..
Yaadon ka aik album nikla .. 
Guzrey maho saalon mey 
Jis k safhey safhey per 
Her chehra kuch khta tha ..
Kuch tasveerein dhundli thiin bohat 
Kuch ka chehra shanasa daikha..
kuch...

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Ben sensiz yabanci her sey hayatta 
Durur doner canim sila tasinda.
Sorarlar yeniden nasilmiyim ben.
Yazim cizgim gururum onurum.

Aglarim arkamdan dostlar mendilim.

Kefenim nakislanmis toprak bicilmis kaftan.
Ucarmiyim umidine cocuklugum omrum ruyam.
Doganin bir yudum nefesi  tinsiz hayat kuresi...

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Varlik denen bu alemin
Yeri yurdu belli degil
Soyu kayip ademin
Basi sonu bir degil.


Hayata çok sey verdik
Köprüyü geçmeye geldik
Öyle çok hatlar yedik
Dayanilir bir sey degil.


Uzunca yol yürüdün
Yollar bitmiyor gördün
Artik defteri dürdün
Anlatilcak bir sey degil.


Bu daglar bu tepeler
Hepsi...

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