THE SINGING PARROT
...Up above on a pole sat a parrot
Portraying a great attribute
Singing a melody with harmonies
soothing and rejuvenating tune
Singing a song that liberates
Leaving the listener amuse
Picking the ...
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Categories:
sangs, africa, blue, creation, deep,
Form: Epic
Auld Sangs
...Sing tae me the auld sangs that ah learnt when a bairn,
Sitting at ma mithers knee hearin the lilting tunes,
Carrying me far awa in ma mind
Wurds o the land whaur ah live
An love aw the deys o ...
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Categories:
sangs, allegory, culture, desire, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Caledonia
...Caledonia her laund is oor laund,
Caledonia her laund is ma laund
A laund wherr ithers ur walcome,
As we haud oot oor hand
In friendship an tak ye aw in,
As brithers fur aw that.
Caledonia we...
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Categories:
sangs, conflict, courage, feelings, grief,
Form: Ballad
Violinist
...Violinist
Of all human evils
That happend in history
Bigger than Holocaust
It was not, and it will not be.
One Violinist was there
His life was violin string
He made the bloody nest there
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Categories:
sangs, holocaust,
Form: Elegy
Yes I Am On My Way To Jozi
...Dusty shoes and wipsy hair
But i do not care
I am headed to Jozi
Smelting hair and drowsy heat
That will not deter me
I am headed to the streets
paved in gold, Jozi
With nothing more than t...
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Categories:
sangs, growing up, hope, identity,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy's Trappings
...ts are manly footwear
and they’re pointed at the toe.
They’re made to fit a stirrup
and show the way to go.
The boot tops climb toward his knees
and turn back thorns and fangs.
Their soles are smooth and scoot on floors
where he dances as he "sangs".
He cleans them both fore he steps inside
so he won’t make a mess.
But I don’t think he takes them off
even when he’s at rest.
His jeans are straight cut at the leg
and stop at...
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Categories:
sangs, character, clothes, culture, drug,
Form: Verse
Rose Rosy
...the start tag
By the
Chinese
poet
fengwenshu
My space 's small emperaror-my son-
As a Roseate for endless routh,
When unborn my son,
Lived in lofly belly of a flowering tree of dre...
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Categories:
sangs, art, brother, daughter, family,
Form: Bio
Rose Rosy
...the start tag
rose_rosy [????????]
By the
Chinese
poet
fengwenshu
My space 's small emperaror-my son-
As a Roseate for endless routh,
When unborn my son,
Lived in lofly belly of a ...
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Categories:
sangs, art, brother, daughter, family,
Form: Bio
Skimming Stones
...Under the shade of a sychamore tree,
on the edge of a pond sat a he and she.
both who were living with a burdening fee
for the she could not hear, and the he could not see.
and he sat there i...
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Categories:
sangs, friendship, imagination, love, romance
Form: I do not know?
How Will I Leave This World
...How will I leave this world
Will I go out as I have come in
Kicking and screaming
Born of sin?
Or will I simply close my eyes
After saying some tearful goodbyes
To all of those I love and che...
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Categories:
sangs, death, introspection, life
Form: Lyric