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Oriental Poems - Poems about Oriental

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THE real me
... I don't have a common last name (inherited from my father), but I'm simple like Silva from my mother... I'm proud of what I'm like I am.. I am not protected by no......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, confidence, history, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Song of The Butterfly Dragonfly No 3: AABB
...Most times people just see them as yucky, or other times they might just have the key to the Butterfly Dragonfly dressed blues East Asia, the oriental choo choo's. Mind you that this one pulls mo......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, allusion, analogy, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Livorno
...Livorno The communist uprising in Livorno was a serious menace to Italy because that army sent tanks, not big tanks but big enough in narrow streets At the railway station, I met a small woman wi......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, adventure, april, books, break
Form: Blank verse
These Things I Do
...The stock of the rifle is hand-selected walnut. I dust a beautiful porcelain lady. My Nikon needs to be taken out of its case like a coal black memory. I pick up a quartz crystal, put it t......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Their Queen Pheromones
... "Their Queen Pheromones" Nectar attracts foraging honey bees with components of their Queen Pheromones the butterflies beckon their inner wasps to sup on cl......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, life, love, muse, passion,
Form: Narrative



Plum Blossom Haiku I
...These are my modern English translations of haiku about plum blossoms, plums and plum trees. Picking autumn plums my wrinkled hands once again grow fragrant —Yosa Buson, loose translation/inte......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, love, nature, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Splendid Tulip
...The Splendid Tulip No other flower has been the cause of savor There are 16th century tulips beds of every flavor Oriental pigments suited for an exotic bouquet Garden visitors buy tulips with po......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Girl With a Pearl Earring
... GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING by Johannes Vermeer I am covered In shades of light An exotic dress In gold and white An oriental turban In blue and gold And a pearl earring That s......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, art, beautiful, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Oriental
...Martial artist Wields his sword writes......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, writing,
Form: Senryu
Preconception
...They call white sour they call mestizo black they call oriental yellow they call indian red By naming the misfortune exposing prejudice. preconcetion fissure !......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Light Verse
Where Did She Go
...Where did she go I knew of her, had seen her in adverts wearing short hair being, sort of dubious sex, let them guess and smoking a cigarette with the fragrance of the oriental express, yet he......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, adventure, america, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Count Not the Number
...Better than a thousand speeches utterly devoid of sense is a word of deepest meaning that brings the hearer peace. Better than in songs a hundred empty words that break the air is one word of......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, integrity, self, words,
Form: Didactic
A Crazy Turtle Legend Retold
...By day, Turtle is coincidental he sits outside of a Chinese restaurant by the side of an ornamental pond that is always empty of fish. The traffic creates a dusty coat on his stone shell, yet......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Kline
...To US born Franz Kline black&white were just fine Influenced by all things oriental abstracted in the calligraphical......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The Ink Has Dried
...Pitifully, it seems my volcano has erupted—Somerset Mougham Awaiting ink and feather to perform, my volcano has erupted Gloomy den, I listen to crackling fire, nothing of worth to pen S......Read the rest...
Categories: oriental, absence, writing,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

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