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Sheiks Poems

South Bank Centre

...Nestled among the shining peaks
of flashing glass and girded steel,
gilded mansions enjoyed by sheiks;
who queue for nearby Ferris wheel;
near Parliament’s Gothic seat,
Shakespeare’s Elizabethan...

Categories: sheiks, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Simplified

...Cat got your tongue? Hey what’s the matter?
Why ain’t you sayin’ what’s there inside?
If I were somebody who didn’t know better,
I’d say you been simplified

Simplified, simplified
There’s forc...

Categories: sheiks, angst, confusion, integrity, parody,
Form: Lyric

My Ancestors Escape

...PRELUDE
There has always been animosity between Greece and Turkey as far back in history as we wish to go.  Greece was occupied by the Turks during the Middle-Ages for almost 500 years.  My ancestor...

Categories: sheiks, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Close Shave

...Should a Sheik seek a shave
Who'd shave a Sheik,
Sheik shavers should surely
So Sheik shavers Sheiks seek.






Entry for
Twist my Tongue Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nina Parmenter
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Categories: sheiks, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme

War Is For Fools

...I turned over the channel
to come in on the end 
of a documentary
Islam a chant flowing 

through the town
we hate america 
we hate the jews
it was like a football match

where you're chant...

Categories: sheiks, hate, wisdom,
Form: Narrative

Dream On

...I see myself first class relaxing in my own plane
Having my own estate walking with pride down my own lane
With fields and servants working on my plantation of sugarcane
Then all will bow to me even ...

Categories: sheiks, imagination,
Form: Alliteration

Humpty Dumpty

...Sheiks and Sultans kingdom's revolt
Citizens ire and fervour a shocking jolt
Unleashing coffers, promising change they molt
While cleansing their streets with rifle and Colt

Western pots fizzle...

Categories: sheiks, political
Form: Rhyme

My Viva's On Visa

...A pyramid tour
On my bucket list
Approach by camels
Cross an oasis

Play mahjong with sheiks
In hot desert tents
Where harem girls dance
Through wafting incense

Explore monuments
With anc...

Categories: sheiks, adventure, funnyvacation,
Form: Quatrain

Political Dodoitsu #3: Energy Policy

...Great nation enslaved to sheiks -
It fights the liberation
Of itself! Freedom beckons -
We need but the will to move....

Categories: sheiks, political
Form: Dodoitsu

Tight Skin

...September noon was hot
I sat alone in a crowd

My counterfeit leather boots were cheap vinyl,
Like traces of gas in a puddle,
They shone an iridescent rainbow

I wanted faded “501’S” but wore
...

Categories: sheiks, angst, recovery from..., teen,
Form: I do not know?

The Land of Whispering Trees

...The sun never rose, the moon never set
Yet filled with light eyes can never get
Filled it is also with other things,
Not spoken about among living beings.

The wafting sounds are "Nothing", they...

Categories: sheiks, imagination, mystery, nature, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?