Short Ri Poems

Trapped in 
the wilderness.
I drink....

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strawberry shampoo
warmest bath in the world
shang ri lah to me...

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I am the hard surface that you see.
Pretty and useful.
Multicultural yet just.
Break the fragile glass into pieces and find shards of pain and fragments of sadness,
broken and messy.
I am glass. 
I am Yu-Ri
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Nightfall's coming soon ballerina, little
Baby, little darling, remove shoes, tutu
Snuggle comfy settle down, preciouse treasure
Slumber away night  

Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Contest: Sapphic Stanza
Written: September 1, 2013
Poet: Sara Kendrick...

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your kisses burnt in the
banks of the
holy ri-
ver
sprouts and grow tall
embracing green
tendril twining trees
your sighs buried in the
depth of the  belly of
the remorseful earth
rises and enhance  the clouds
weeping sky
rain in the flowers
of my down-
trodden
grave...

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am fed up with so much stuff
locusting in through my threshold
and causing be to see the ri, in beating the sielent majority

the sentence of sentience, last for a long long time
and this portends effective projection

o. group cohesion. oh, long term species survival
is belief in species, an original sin...

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Inside of me and
Never letting me be
Sticking me in “my place”.
Endless circles in this race.
Curbing my courage
Undermining my wits
Restlessly putting caps on my abilities
Inexplicably
Trying so hard to fail me, never letting me breathe! No, more!
You no longer own me! Step aside, stand down, - Ms. In-se-cu-ri-ty!...

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Jai bajran bali 

Bhooth sang khele hum aankh micholi 
Aap jeeto mai haru kaeyd mai humare kaei nar kankal jo Ho amavasya ki raat..... 


Yav 

Ri-dr ba:G hum ooch 
Eyen micholi 
Sav ebhbhbh (jeeto) Mai sav-r 
Keydha mai humarey (y-rd) 
Nar kankal amavasya (Tha-d) 
Ho andhkar...... 

With love all 
Jagdish Bajantri...

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"MY RI. MI."


she stands naked,
with her back to me.
she holds her hair up
with one hand as the
fingertips from the
other, sit on the base
of her neck.
girls give everything. 
women give simplicity.
love is everything I've 
encapsulated it to be.
here now, is the very 
reason this has come
to be.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016...

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Ria sempre

_Para ter uma vida própera,
Hoje;
e sempre
Ria intensamente,
Ria sempre.

Quem pensa e vive
Ri sempre alegremente
Ri de verdade,
Sem solenidade.

Quem pensa e vive
Pensa a sério
E ri sério. 

Quem pensa e vive
Ri intensamente,
Ri sempre.

Creia;
Quem pensa, 
ri; 
deixa de rir
quem só faz cara que pensa. 

Ria você 
Hoje 
E sempre....

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Year 1968
2:00 AM
Very late
Ring Ring
It was the phone
I hesitate
Maybe it would stop
Ring Ring
I guess not
RING RING
Leaving the bed
RING RING
Shuffling to the living room
RING RI-
I answered the phone
Put the handset to my head
Came the voice of a little girl
Age about five
Sweet and polite
A voice from the dead
“Hello world,” she said...

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Nou vini
Nou flannen
Epi nou pati
Se tout sa nou konnen.

Sou latè nou vini
Nou navige, nou flannen
Epi nou pati san anyen
San papye, san lajan, san yon peni.

Se bonjou ke nou di
Nou pale, nou chante, nou ri
Epi san anyen nou kouri ale
San frèn ak sèn, san propryete e san papye.

P.S. Tradiksyon 'And We Depart With Nothing'
from Haitian Creole.

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Hébert Logerie se otè plizyè liv pwezi....

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The hot, dry season is done!
Invite nostalgia’s approach -
enjoy her dance of delight.

Science calls her "pet-ri-chor".
quite lackluster, I would say
for fragrance ever so light.

Dust and droplets of water
unite - concocting brief whiffs  
of essence known to excite.

July rain brings memory’s
sprite to life emanating
thoughts only smells can incite.

Smell deeply before she takes
flight. All too soon she will go
leaving without sound or sight.
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