Long Turbaned Poems

After a six-month battle with the disease and ten hours of major surgery, I have just died.
I died... while my wife wept and my son and daughter-in-law sank into their beds.
I slipped out of my...

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A transparent parrot makes a very big noise when seed arrives to visit. Mr and Mrs seed have fifteen children, eleven thousand grandchildren and one great grandchild. It is interesting to note bar levels for...

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Bestial History Recycling
                              by Odin Roark

School...

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treading tales of three o clock on the morning bow
Android alkaloid met a myriad of trees at a southern angle. Bacon tart it was not for a tart is touting and touting is not touring...

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Sitting on the Fence at Twilight

When the sun waved good-bye in the afternoon,
I’d say hello to the smiling Man in the Moon. 
Perching on our gray concrete fence,
I’d swing my brown legs to a happy...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXI

IF you pull a long lagging-behind face
You deserve your copycat status in more than one way
Marco Polo brought back cracker-power not to powder face
Noble Savage Injuns and...

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Hey, hey, I want to dance the *KARAGAM dance
*Hey, Sham, Manu, bring pitchers from archives
Fill the pitchers with water and uncooked rice
As rice symbolizes food that sustain our lives.

With twirls bodies move free with intricate...

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The first gardening of the year maybe is small beer

Tightening tired muscles digging the seven by nine, 

These great beetroot symphonies so divine where

Rebellion rife not growing this, but the runner bean 

Its bright red...

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Profiling Can Be the Best Way To Go

By Elton Camp

If a feeble, little old lady comes walking by
Is your reaction the same if a thug you spy?

If not, then it’s profiling in which you engaged
A...

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“Couldn’t we all just be right?”
At the hind end of the elephant holding its tail; the first blind man said.
“Rotten luck all of us being blind!” said the blind, seated man hugging a leg.
“Perhaps, this...

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Years of worshipping the Sun God are
changing me: the beach baby I was is no 
more. Sun whisperer says, Get Ready. Clear
your mind.  Be one of a kind. Each day
he takes his marker out...

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The show is on.
Sedition will play with death now.
Deceitful black knives, white gloves.
No hope, battle lines are drawn.
The wasps are whirring at a furious speed 
stings ready to inject venom.

Bronzed body,
huge turbaned skull.
Eyes looking beyond...

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Colors of life, fertility, sanctity fly
Aromas include sweetmeats, coconut, fire
There's flowers galore, honey, spices 
Not for meals only, but especially decoration
Focus now on the bride: Vermillion path
From the Center of her head, to her top...

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I
David Frost in the month of September
Before the US opening in October
(Not live, except Paul sang live throughout;
But the mixed fans will thrill; even a turbaned Sikh)
So if you fell weighed down today in 2020
Go...

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Turbaned head
Red and white clothed
Benignly asks
'Should I help?'
To reach the 
r i g h t 
compartment
The train is on time
Arriving on platform number one
He covers long distances
Spots the compartment
Carries the load
Undisturbed, untroubled, unrisked
Keeps the luggage
Takes...

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