Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo
...Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo
Yours truly an unfortunate hostage
within *****sapien zoo
presenting poetic hodge podge
and mish mash to you
looking for unwitting subject(s) to...
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Categories:
mongol, america, appreciation, april, food,
Form: Rhyme
Surpassing Xanadu
...“Conquering Xanadu’s enigmatic beauty is heaven’s majestic reality of God’s presence.” By the poet
Call me Xanadu---
“an idyllic, exotic
or luxurious place.”
Considered was I ...
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Categories:
mongol, appreciation, blessing, faith, god,
Form: Personification
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 2
...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 2
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
The batter's foul ball killed a fowl that later caused a foul o...
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Categories:
mongol, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Journey of Souls
...The journey of souls
Pay homage to rebellion
Like mongol queens
The prophet drinks medicinal tea
Harnessing the power of now
Resting in the seat of his soul
The argonauts battle
They fight...
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Categories:
mongol, dream, journey, romantic, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Try Mumbo Jumbo Chicken Gumbo Soup Saith Dumbo
...Yours truly an unfortunate hostage
within *****sapien zoo
looking for unwitting subject(s) to woo,
and albeit impossible mission) to free me,
where within human bondage I stew
more specifically ...
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Categories:
mongol, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Word Massacre
...Ravagers of Poesy,
spear points of denial
Mongol hordes of fancied verse,
spewing dense and vile
Free words they herd together,
to drive toward a cliff
Trampled once they hit the ground
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Categories:
mongol, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Village On the Water Vi
...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his penchant...
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Categories:
mongol, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Things That Break Ii
...Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every ...
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Categories:
mongol, break up, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
The Village On the Water V
...Showering white light illuminates
Bright-Moon Bay;
In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
To invite the same reticen...
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Categories:
mongol, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse
Wildlife 46
...Wildlife 46
A hairy and weird smelling yak,
Lay watching the sky on his back,
A Mongol called Kurt,
Yelled abuse from his yurt,
So he shouted back "Cut me some slack!!"...
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Categories:
mongol, animal, funny,
Form: Limerick
Who Am I
...Marvels of the World I wrote.
Fantina, Bellela and Moretta will gloat.
These are my three daughters who kept me afloat.
They never did accompany me on travels or boat.
I saw the Mongol Empire ...
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Categories:
mongol, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
...Perhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun...
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Categories:
mongol, brother, eulogy, magic, prison,
Form: Free verse
Adam Mickiewicz Translation: the Ruins of Balaclava
...Sonnet: The Ruins of Balaclava
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, barren Crimean land, these dreary shades
of castles?once your indisputable...
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Categories:
mongol, death, depression, grave, romantic,
Form: Sonnet
Genghis Khan
...[ credits to LAURENT YVAN from France who read my poem ]
Launched over ages of primaeval forces
my nomadic ancestry calls out to me
winds howl driven over rolling hills
atop a ridge of rugg...
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Categories:
mongol, character, courage, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Nostalgia For Yesteryear of Boyhood
...(alternately titled: whipping and pommel ling
das soar addle brain)
My most recent deuce score
plus three bajillion ban
an nah ram ma orbitz
squared bob sponge pants
day of bir...
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Categories:
mongol, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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