Short Bedouins Poems

Limerick : Once a Flutist played an enticing tune

Once a Flutist played an enticing tune
While sitting on a seat-burning dune
Bedouins learned from camels
While suff’ring from measles
To compose get camel measles in June !

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Twenty long-desert years
sweeping scorpions into their pits
over and over and over again
now the sweepers are leaving in haste
not enough blood money to be made,,, 

Scorpions are pouring out of their pits
stingers held high above Biden's Bedouins-...

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Christmas is over
one 
by 
one
the severed forest 
is dragged to the curb
a plastic Christ is covered 
in frost of the soon forgotten
another reason for winter birds not to chirp.

Over the weekend 
the city has culled the herd
middle east oil is starting to boil again
another season-another war...
one heart strums a golden harp 
the other pours heavy metal
on the Bedouins of the soul....

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so wily and smooth, he boasts
   he can make huge profits
      among Sahara Bedouins
         selling them mounds of sand;

so shrewd and suave, he brags
   he can convince Eskimos
      right in their igloos to buy 
         from him expensive tons of snow;

now so quiet and cold, he still
   touches those he outsmarted,
      even in his grave, in the ground,
         with the sand, 'neath the snow....

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