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Malay Poems - Poems about Malay


Soudah and Dutchman
Soudah and Dutchman Soudah, a Malaysian slave lived in Cape Town’s slave lodge, her knee bone damaged after decades of scrubbing floors. She escaped northwards, hearing of a bone surgeon in Mpumalanga. “Will you dance with me ?”, were the first words tumbling from his Dutch lips. He did not see her broken identity,...

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Categories: malay, africa, analogy, change, color,
Form: Haibun
If I Didn't Have Her
Jika saya tidak mempunya dia, Hidup saya akan berakhir. If I didn’t have her, My life would be over. Tidak akan ada warna. Tidak akan ada yang menarik There would be no color. There would be nothing interesting. Hidup tidak akan berbaloi untuk dijalani. Hidup saya akan berakhir. Life would not be worth living. My life would be over. ...

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Categories: malay, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Song of The Multicolored Malay Lacewing Butterfly No 11: ABBA
Tropical Impressionist ascenders, colorist defenders were everywhere, Multicolored Malay Lacewings ... there, added ambiance to the fanfare years, the species are restricted to forest reserves due to its flowering host plant, Adenia's, in the regions, cate's length, colors change, sociable, pupae process, soon a new adult emerges and mates, confirming progressions of the species. Unique to Asian Isles in the Southeast, black, white, yellow, red, bluish...

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Categories: malay, allusion, analogy, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun (The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the anonymous quatrain form. Cf " Poietics of the Pantun...

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Categories: malay, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX Continued for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun Check out: www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf (The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the anonymous quatrain form. Cf " Poietics of...

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Categories: malay, age, humor, love, sensual,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Iv-Vi
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued) for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun Check out: www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf (The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the anonymous quatrain form. Cf " Poietics of the Pantun ",...

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Categories: malay, age, humor, satire, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun Check out: www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf (The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the anonymous quatrain form. Cf " Poietics of the Pantun ", pp....

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Categories: malay, age, humor, imagery, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Malay Pantun: the Non-Party Communal Triumvirate
The Malay Pantun: The Non-Party Communal Triumvirate Ursidae carnivora hug and hibernate Hypolais polyglottes trill without triumph Alliance Party* wins and vituperate Opposition parties coagulate without lymph • The ruling Malaysian communal triumvirate – since Independence in 1957. © T. Wignesan, Paris - 2013...

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Categories: malay, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Malay Pantun: Post-Colonial Writing
La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes Learnt by rote as sacred Oxbridge duties Note The French "pantoum" may be modeled on the Malay pantun, or at least it may aspire to, but it does not adhere to its fundamental...

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Categories: malay, on writing and words,
Form: Pantoum

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