The Narrow Path
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I knew it was you all along, trying to compose a different song, I knew you were standing in the line when the bullets explode into the sky
Everyone had to run for cover and hold onto what they...
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Categories:
manche, absence, business, conflict, corruption,
Form: Narrative
Memories By Satis Shroff
...Erinnerungen (Satis Shroff)
Ich ging in ein Altersheim
Verkleidet als ein Hase,
Mit einer roten Nase.
Ich spielte mit meiner Mundharmonika
Alte Deutsche Lieder für die Mitbewohner.
Manche läc...
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Categories:
manche, age, appreciation, depression, how
Form: Free verse
Call La Manche
...Dover’s high
Cliffs reach towards the sky.
William the Conqueror breached the wall;
Spain, France, Germany…these waters held back them all....
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Categories:
manche, england, hero, history, ocean,
Form: Verse
Aatma Bal
...Tala tala jhardaichu
Jimdai bhayera pani mardaichu
Aafnu jindagi bada
Mo nai alik sardaichu
Kati din pachi ta manche le malie
thukkcha
Tei apman bata bachnu mo jasto
lukcha
Tara je suk...
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Categories:
manche, absence
Form: ABC
Achtung, Mes Amis
...ACHTUNG, MES AMIS
The islands resolutely isolated from the shore
had atmosphere : they were redolent of an insolence
which betokened ‘Do come and get me, if you damn well dare.’
Its minor mou...
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Categories:
manche, funny, political,
Form: I do not know?
Swimming the Channel
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If I am ambitious, on one future day,
I will make the swim from Dover to Calais.
If I am ever granted carte blanche,
I will cross the body of water French call “La Manche”.
Many athletic swi...
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Categories:
manche, adventure, sports, water, water,
Form: Rhyme