Life Around The World
...I am so pleased to be alive...
Although the past paths
Used to be filled with flowers and thorns
Through hot or cold
Through dangers that threaten my body
And humiliated my mind.
But I live my...
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Categories:
mekong river, earth, feelings, flying, i
Form: Free verse
The Mariner
...The Mariner
Crystal tears falling down my cheeks
Behind the curtain face peeks
My skin so pale with broken lips
Wait for jack-tar and daily trips
The mariner stood so great he is
My soul is j...
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Categories:
mekong river, hurt,
Form: I do not know?
The Race
...Pistols shoot
and rifles unload
thunderous banters
initiate the race
she dives
into the Mekong River
stealth head start
she leads amongst the pack
of four boys and three girls
paddles faster...
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Categories:
mekong river, america, family, fear, hero,
Form: Free verse
White Mountains
...The White Mountains stand upright
Touching the clear blue sky
Fresh cool air for breathing
In the Freedom land for living
In contrast to the year-round green
Of my motherland's scene
Greenish...
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Categories:
mekong river, mountains, river, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Wind of the Prairie
...Warm air dances in the prairie
In a hot sunny day
Arid smell comes across the barbed wire
To harm my mind
Relaxing under the evergreen
Viewing the heat of the summer scene.
A rice farmer wi...
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Categories:
mekong river, dream, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Wind of the Prairie
...Warm air dances in the prairie
In the hot sunny day.
The arid smell comes across
The barbed wire to harm my mind;
Relaxing under the evergreen,
Viewing the heat of the summer scene.
A rice...
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Categories:
mekong river, imagery, memory, visionary, wind,
Form: Free verse
Average Age 19
...Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for
Families are asking, Korea has just passed
Generatio...
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Categories:
mekong river, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Quatrain