Red-Crested Sampan
...Red-Crested Sampan
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Shariful Alam
June 10, 2025
Hudson, New York
United States of America
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If by chance we meet again someday,
If desire brings us close once more,
I’ll breathe dee...
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Categories:
sampan, 12th grade, america, bangla,
Form: Free verse
It's Raining, It's Pouring Man--REMAKE
..."It’s Raining, It’s Pouring"
It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He bumped his head
And went to bed
And didn’t get up till morning.
Shivers 'me Timbers
truth be told t...
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Categories:
sampan, appreciation, music, song,
Form: Lyric
The Home We Made
...Pike Place Market and Space Needle
race tracks out at Indy
stands Jefferson's Memorial
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing)
Great Wall nearby Xia...
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Categories:
sampan, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Crescent Moonlight
...CRESCENT MOONLIGHT
Crescent moonlight falls
Sampan dips its oar in light
Timid deer enthralls...
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Categories:
sampan, nature,
Form: Haiku
Rainbow
...I remember this place bygone in antiquity so well,
As the sea slurped the cliff mellifluous on the swell;
As we sat bemused in ourselves, on the cliff rock…..
The seagulls swooped in their nest to do...
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Categories:
sampan, romantic,
Form: Choka
Who Dares To Take This Life From Me,Knows No Better: Parts Three and Four
...III
This is the land of the convectional rains
Which vie on the monsoon back scrubbing streets
This is the land at half-past four
The rainbow rubs the chilli face of the afternoon
And an evening-mor...
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Categories:
sampan, political, rain, rain,
Form: Free verse
China Seas
...Willow patterns chase around a bowl
Through pictographs of bluest tide,
Paper tigers and some bitter rice
When you became some others’ bride.
Sampan glides across a lily pond,
Ornamental and p...
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Categories:
sampan, lost love, sad,
Form: Verse