Long Shi Poems

I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried not to retract, 
but after so many tears 
I have...

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These are modern English translations of Chinese poems of The Shijing or Shi Jing ("Book of Songs" or "Book of Odes")

Shijing Ode #4: “JIU MU”
ancient Chinese rhyming poem (c. 1200-600 BC)
loose translation by Michael R....

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I swing into action
Armed with wine 
The spirit willing, really for anything
Watch the Drama

Fire in my eye, dry throat, cracking lip
I stammer a little, with Socratic confidence 
I am stinking of words, ammunition from hell
Most...

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The Shijing or Shi Jing or Shih-Ching (“Book of Songs” or “Book of Odes”) is the oldest Chinese poetry collection, with the poems included believed to date from around 1200 BC to 600 BC. According...

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I can be your doctor the pills won’t hurt
Take a couple baby or you’ll get worse
I am the medicine queen come and hit me up 
I was only 13 getting called that in the traphouse...

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Her alluring abilities are what most draw them in.  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena risks both mind and body in pursuit of Demetrius, through the forest she finally catches up to him, his own...

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a smile you never forget


In Yokohama the moon is so bright
there is woman watching TV tonight
today the rain fall and she got wet
and she wears a smile you can,t forget

when I am having a long...

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Welcome signs spreads dah floor_
And here I stand just before.
There’s Happy people inside therein_
It's soon to open_ don't know when.

Peeping through dah peephole
waving to dah crowd_
doing my best_ not ta get loud.

I keep-a ringing dah...

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My ideas are in hiding 
Afraid of the secret police
For they are in Kansas City
My poems are not wanting to goosestep
I hear glass breaking
It does not wake me up at first
But when it does I...

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continents apart
unique souls filled with blessings
bless one another
make the globe a better place
encourage love peace joy hope


Turkish

kitalar ayri
Kutsamalarla dolu benzersiz ruhlar
Birbirini korusun
Dünyayi daha iyi bir yer haline getirin
Sevgi baris sevinç umut tesvik


Arabic
alqarrat almubaraka
alqarrat biaistithna'
alnnufus faridat...

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My Goddess

I
              Met         A
          ...

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No talk, no walk,
No laws, no clause,
That's her way of dreaming.
Just the silence between the journey,
The peace connecting two broken pieces of heart,
Was the making of the bro sis art.
Their relationship was an art,
Not just...

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Try looking in the mirror
you use me every day,
I had never once thought
my life would turn out this way.

I've been there for you
there were days you couldn't walk,
we didn't know what was going on
I've helped...

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                  It's  Not 
    Flying     ...

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Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka translations

hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku

A single tree
with a heart carved into its trunk
blossoms prematurely
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

dôkefuku nugazu tentômushi no shi yo

Still clad in its clown's...

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It's hard to see a young
unarmed man die in the 
hands of the police...

Doesn't matter what 
color of your skin is,
or if he's a criminal 
or not.

If he's not holding up
a gun, then shooting 
him...

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No hero me only in my dreams
A pleasant night out
Coast walk with my lady
People mesmerised and all just looking
Watching a boat drifting onto the rocks
Somebody must be doing something
Boat striking hitting the rocks
Nobody doing anything
Spineless...

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When u will be free we will meet sometime 
If not on land then somewhere in sky

Your hesitations and the way you tried
Your every movements dwell in my eyes 
All those nights all those talks...

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China Spies and Lies

Concentration camps in the north
disappearing book sellers in the south
Chinese spies hunt one and all
Army of thieves , worldwide

Zhao Ziyang, where is he?
erased from Chinese history
where is the brave young man
who battled...

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Sebun Nihonjin Okoku no Senso (War of the Seven Japanese Kingdoms):

Sebun utukushi okoku wa, senso o sengen shimasu (Seven Beautiful Kingdoms Declare War), Heishi no su sen-ri ga senjo ni ran’nyu shimasu (Thousands of soldiers...

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CORONALITY (1)

Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationality China, who premeditatedly planned
The glint of bodies: naked, suited or adorned,
Down by...

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Suraj sa tapta ye roshan savera.....
Taron si bikhri ye kali rat h.....
Koi soye alishaN makano me.... .
Kisi ki chadar ye chandni rat h....
Kaise ye ajab duniya h....
Kaisa ajab insan h......

Khi Bahta h pani yo gande...

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Lord I write to you...

For this is the only 
way I know how
to get through to 
you.

Lord can you
hear me ?

I'm dying inside,
I'm tired of lies.

Living in sin 
is my appetite.

I beg you 
to help...

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The Mother-Land Cries.

The land bleeds.
From treasured seeds.
No Diamond grills,
from cut off limbs.
The poor-less fears.
''Blood, Sweat an Tears.''
The Hunger of pain,
screaming in vein.
With continued cries,
an lullaby's.
Of stories told,
but never unfold.
In a desperate speed,
of souls in need.
The...

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Hey Ricky you got any papers or a bowl; I got weed
I only have enough for one bowl or two small joints
Johnny, what you got for Biff’s party, next Saturday
Ohhh!! everybody’s dry I even bought...

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