Long Turkey Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
turkey, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
The Storm Is In The CalmThe angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
turkey, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
YangyYolks with YinYin-WhitesStart and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.
I doubt my eggs are religious.
No, but they are natural,
organic incubators,
co-arising nondual yolk form
with white-transparent regenerative function,
teleology,
and cosmology, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey,
or a...
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Categories:
turkey, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form:
Narrative
Turkish Poetry Translations IITurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
turkey, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Heres Why My CV Needs WorkNAME: Phil Latio.
QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet
...
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Categories:
turkey, humorous,
Form:
List
Thelma Lou - BOTH Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
turkey, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Additional advice to those would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
turkey, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
What Kind of People Are WeWhat Kind of People Are We
In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...
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Categories:
turkey, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form:
Narrative
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
turkey, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
turkey, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Travel Light
Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
turkey, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Precipice
"The Precipice"
In the Autumn
she wore a wedding veil
A cold winter would lift it
Kiss her lips passionately to
speak words of
LOVE
on a
late roll call
“Well, that’s insanity for you”
some snakes would hiss
others rapture-faced
on...
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Categories:
turkey, god, humanity, science,
Form:
Free verse
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
turkey, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Follow The Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal
Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special touches and then flee
they decorated the mountain peaks
using all their...
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Categories:
turkey, cheer up, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry in the Ides of March - PART THREEAgain the alarm is set.
Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.
The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.
She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...
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Categories:
turkey, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Mehmet Akif Ersoy translationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
turkey, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Turkish Poetry Translations ITurkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes...
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Categories:
turkey, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Children ARE Worth the Risk
Children ARE Worth the Risk
“What‘re ya’ doin’ for Christmas, Carl?” the nurse’s aid inquired, “all...
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Categories:
turkey, children,
Form:
Narrative
Ice Cream Gran 8 - Journey To The Centre Of The OeufGran glared at the general. ‘So tell me where we’re at
What’s a chicken got to do with me and Nitro Cat?’
‘That chicken,’ said the general, ‘has laid a special egg
It’s got a micro chip in...
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Categories:
turkey, fantasy, grandmother, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Nigerian Independence CelebrationAs October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...
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Categories:
turkey, celebration, freedom,
Form:
Alliteration
The Market PlaceI have been trying to pen this verse for the past two weeks but
Someone was standing in my way and my mind went astray
Can’t you see that it is a brand new day?
Winter has subsided...
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Categories:
turkey, change, character, courage, environment, metaphor, money, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Betsy FABLEBetsy is “just a cow” most would say. She’s dark rust, almost auburn in color, with large white patches all over her body and especially on her rather long, nosey face. She has deep, soft...
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Categories:
turkey, animal, appreciation, character, farm, giving, god, thanks,
Form:
Prose
Pull out of the crowdDriven by the forces around you driven by the forces behind you
Driven by forces above you driven by forces beside you, driven by
Forces all around you. The mouth is moving up and down but half...
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Categories:
turkey, adventure, appreciation, cheer up, community, education, encouraging,
Form:
Narrative
WiseElder TurkeysMy parenting totem
was the Hawk
of bicamerally perfect egocentric vision
usually greeted by a loud Yang squawk
and vigorous walk
in the other wrong direction.
My WiseElder totem
is the Turkey,
CoMessiah of CoRedemptive Dying
as notnot loving EarthTribe's future lives.
At eight,
my totem...
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Categories:
turkey, age, earth, health, humor, mythology, native american,
Form:
Political Verse
Limericks
Romance in Durango
We met south of the border in Durango,
she was hot and boy could she fandango.
She said at a glance
“senor...
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Categories:
turkey, fun, humorous,
Form:
Limerick