Birthday Lullaby Poems

Blessing for you in the spring,
Deep dreams rising in the morning sun.
When blue birds spun their
wings and sing, 
Wishing your whole beings, a a joyful...

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Date:  April 2041

It's been one week now. There
Was no sign of the Black China 
Men. The other Hakim family 
Members decided to take residence...

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The Gift That I Give You                   ...

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Heart & Soul 

What a wonderful thing to behold!
Have you ever seen one quite so cute?
Never ever wanna let you go..
dressed in a brand new...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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quatrain with chain rhyme

The edge of the sunset dissolves
into the horizon.  The day's candle
dies, yet fires light the sky once more;
once more, as rioters...

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Re-Creating Peace

The basket of castoffs is full. 
No one can wear clothes, torn and stained. 
Holes and rips that show use. 
The scissors cut them...

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The Dawn Ballet

Let me dance for You, 
before I put my feet upon the floor. 
Let me sing out your praise, 
before the day has...

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One More

Ingredients are a funny thing. 
Timing is probably more important. 
But it is hard to say really. 

I cooked all day, but…
I wanted it...

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Cartoons

Saturday morning, early, 
we sat around the toob…(tv)
We laughed. 

Road runner was too fast, 
the coyote was always too slow. 
Thundar was a Barbarian, 
and...

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J-ust
H-ear
A-nother
L-ovely
L-ullaby
A-s
I-t
N-icely
E-ases

M-ind
A-nd
U-ses
R-hyme
I-n
C-ool
I-mpressive
O-penness

Topic: Birthday of Jhallaine Mauricio (January 31)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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L-et the song allow
Y-ou to make a deep slumber, 
N-ight sounds as you sleep.







Topic: Birthday of Lyn Belia (March 20) 
Form: Acrostic Senryu...

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Nutty grandpa president
is talking crazy uncle Donald again
His little Chucky thumbs
is tapping epithet tweet nonsense
Batty grandpa’s been 
grumpily sucking 
on the hate hot sauce bottle
stashed...

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A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER 
Roy Mokoena

Who will I be without number twelve, 
Time for gatherings and restoration of relations,
A lot of festivities but my birthday...

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Washed and smartly dressed in school uniform
Judy tucks into her healthy breakfast
while watching cartoons on television.
Her mother smiles. Outside the sun shines bright.
 
 ...

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