Short Burmese Poems

Cat
Proud, playful
Purring, miaowing, stalking
Tortoiseshell, Persian, Siamese, Burmese
Running, jumping, playing
Soft, small
Kitten
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My bathroom is pink
Hair dye on my sink
In the bath tub too
Punky color, Burmese blue
My towel is a mess
Hair dye on a dress
Burmese blue on a wall
Splattering hair dye down the hall...

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         The world could have been Cosmo’s oyster
          ‘Til as a Burmese monk he cloistered ~

                Cosmo never touched drink
                Or so they say, I think ~

          Then he confused rooster with roister
...

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Pakistan is weeping now
weeping Burmese burnt dreams
weeping Cubans in Darfur
weeping Venezuelans
North Korea is weeping still
weeping Iranian uranium dream
weeping Chinese in Tibet
weeping Russians
the world wails
	    waning
and We sleep to dream...

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This one’s Burmese
done with ease if 
one sees patterns
or he learns to.
Uh, there is no try; ya do.

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A YaDu:

O. O. O. a.
O. O. a. O
O. a. O. b
O. O. b. c.
O. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. c.

(The last line can be 5, 7, 9, or 11 syllables)...

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My shy wife was a princess of Babazoa

                               Her dessert was cream lizard from Samoa

                                        She inherited a princely sum

                                    And went to the Big Gabazoa slum

                          And bought chilled bum for her sweet Burmese Boa...

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Turn, churn, don’t spurn…
You must learn, child--
To churn butter... 



Adell Foster © Adell1 2007


THAN-BAUK 
Three line “Climbing Rhyme” poem of Burmese origin.
Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line, the 
third syllable of the second line and the second syllable of the last line. Usually, 
witty....

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This leaf possessed
of newest age,
with zest, upturned. 

05 Aug 2014

"Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three line "climbing 
rhyme" poem of Burmese origin. Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on 
the fourth syllable of the first line, the third syllable of the second line, and the 
second syllable of the third line" - From Poetry Soup Forms...

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Do not be shy.
Never cry or
Comply to fear.





Sponsored by: Constance ~ A Rambling Poet ~ 
for contest-- Forms of Poetry 101 --Cecil Hickman

A Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three line "climbing rhyme" 
poem of Burmese origin. Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of 
the first line, the third syllable of the second line, and the second syllable of the third line....

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There is an island having a lot of apples
A boy live there
Oneday, all of these apples lost
The boy is finding them
He looked around all over the island
He didn't see them
So,He went to the sea
And when he reached somewhere of the sea,
He found the apples jumping above the sea
Some are bright at night
He never come back his island
He live forever in the sea.

 Written In Burmese Language Aung Thet Oo
Translated by JanDarYee...

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Burning candle
tells a tale of
pure selfless life


Be such a flame
let your aim be
to tame darkness.




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A Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three line "climbing rhyme" poem of Burmese origin. Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line, the third syllable of the second line, and the second syllable of the third line. 

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Half Alpaca, it spits if I dare kiss Cathy's ruby lips.
It plants a jacked-up rhubarb stalk,
a stiff stalking walk
if I dare roan hands over
my lovers compliance.

Cathy’s cat is much loved by itself
and also by the silky paws of its owner.
I think it may be transforming into a Burmese python
or something more slinky, sneaky, and lower.

As for I, it shows its one scorning pink eye
as it struts away
tail up, exposing a cool distain
as arrogantly possessive as any ‘fork you’ flag....

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