just a dream
...Sitting in an old Oka tree writing my poetry I look down and see yellow buzzing bumble bee flowers purple blue and green I look up and see the sky hey that cloud looks like an eye I wonder why, I loo...
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Categories:
oka, 6th grade, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse
More of a Story, Then a Poem
... My Fathers House
It had been years since he had last seen his dad, when he lost his job,
he hardly came home.
After many missed birthdays and graduations, he gave up on the notion...
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Categories:
oka, analogy, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Homemade Ramen
...Inside this scroll is a bowl
Of homemade ramen thoroughly
Cooked with fresh meat and vegetables.
Inside this scroll is a bowl
Of a homemade meal thoughtfully
Cooked with love and passion.
I...
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Categories:
oka, food,
Form: Free verse
Hang Ontight
...A solitary moment of peace and respite
a stretch of water woven with serenity
Life is a package that longs to be loosed
at the shore of our dreams,
sunk through the pores of a restful wake
So...
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Categories:
oka, deep,
Form: Free verse
Cluck Put Purr Kee Kee
...HAPPY THANKSIVING TO ALL AMERICANS OUT THERE.
Cluck put-purr kee kee went the turkeys in the back of Jim's truck. He was delivering them to neighboring vicinities for Thanksgiving. When he re...
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Categories:
oka, thanksgiving,
Form: Narrative
Buhari: a Song of Praise
...Thou has been our saviour,
Though we've been bewitched by different savours.
That emanate from thy armpit,
Pulling along with it,our infamous wits.
The product of your skilfulness,
Had stirred i...
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Categories:
oka, allusion,
Form: Ode
The Open Sky Over the Oka
...(A river ‘wave’ for the Laureate of Literature Ivan Bunin 1870-1953)
By Fatmir Terziu
The stars leave slowly,
Leave and are faced with the ‘polluted’ air,
Leave, just as all leaves decompose,
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Categories:
oka, dedication, literature,
Form: Free verse
Nizhniy Novgorod's Kremlin*
...Above a pulsating arrow of two great Russian rivers,
there, where Oka merges to Volga
and already flows farther downstream,
to the Caspian sea,
an ancient, wise Kremlin stands – like a ...
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Categories:
oka, history, nostalgia, places, song-autumn,
Form: Lyric