Patriotic Nature Poems

A Gemini baby cry                     ...

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I love my Motherland the Philippines--
Land of my birth and of my ancestors;
To her my strength, my heart, and all my means
I dedicate freely without...

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For just one heavenly moment 
the fiery leaves of fall blaze forth
bursting along the rolling hillsides
in brief, magical pageantry. 

Electric red leaves light up
like firecrackers...

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??EVERGREEN??

Green Panther, does wearing green
Or being homegrown and living as indigene
equals patriotism and makes you ever green?
Does staying or returning to your home country
signifies patriotism...

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Imagination
and timeless Muse memory
wears Her integral capacity
to naturally craft a re-ligious spirit
out of any transcendent
transparent
transregenerational relationship,

Within any AnthropoCentric 
NonViolent Communioning Network.

And, a positively correlating observation,
proposition,
perhaps...

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English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me...

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Ode to a Land of Wonder

I walk a journey through shady forests set aside 
Where sunbeams slide to earth on airy pillows 
Where verdant green...

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You, my homeland, are beauty and bloom unrivaled!

From reach-to-reach your gilded plains, rolling hills,

and pointy peaks, chant to the heavens of freedom!

Your raggedy coasts and...

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Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally...

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The Pipe
(irrigation)

I am a city girl, 
I have never,
until now…

Ridden a horse across the desert, 
held a tarantula for longer than…
five minutes, 
used an incubator...

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Motherland, whole existence l owe,
Motherland, perpetually, I salute...

As many times, I fell
Mother Earth held me in embrace
Pointed at horizon where sky meets earth 
Indicating that...

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Financial supporters,
including tax payers,
prefer to invest most in thriving healthy results,
mental,
physical,
spiritual,
natural,

Health interdependent 
and wealth autonomously held,

Responsive 
and yet rationally authoritative,

Personally felt 
and yet publicly well...

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Mine is a land of golden rivers
And glowing sunsets that melt your heart 
A long history of native people in harmony 
With lush wildlife and...

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There ought to be a law

If CEOs ignore firestorm conflagrations
expanding in strength
and endurance
And ignore wet windstorms
wiping out resident populations,
humane and Republican
and otherwise,

If CEOs meanwhile invest...

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Oh black, Black hills above the grass,
rising up like a giant hold-fast.

On your sides heros are carved,
cut by patriotic hearts.

Great stone needles rising high,
futilely reaching...

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