Short Shan Poems

Water ripples
On the pond surface

Concentric circles
Of perfect shape

Raindrops plopping
In rhythmic grace
Announcing the storm...

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Brooklyn 

Salt beef with onion
sandwiches.
Goat cheese made 
near the wailing wall
The waiter
is a scientist.

Intelligent eyes
behind thick-lensed glasses
do not dare to leave a tip.
The burden of my ancestors
weighed heavy on my mind.

The chicken soup was excellent
I shan´t return
Before 
Palestine is a sovereign state...

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In a tiny Kingdom, in some far, distant land,

lived 9 hundred subjects, whose ruler was "The Shan"!

With a horrendous temper and prone to take fits,

his subjects walked on eggs, keeping their wits!

For some time, no problem, and it was great,

then a sudden fit, led to a perilous fate!

Now everyone was affected, except for one little man!

I just can't tell you, in fact nobody can,

his exact location, when "The fit hit the Shan"!...

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It all began in a laboratory in Wuhan;
Shan Chi sneezed next to Li Huan,
And they both gave it to Sue Han,
Who spread it all over Fenghuang.

Shie Ming went to Taiwan,
And she wasn't the only one,
Who talked to Sue Han
Who got it from a cousin from Wuhan.

And now Lien Mien Yong
Also went to Hong Kong,
It spread all along,
And it found Zhou Xong

He gave it to Kay Lee
Who stood next to me
In the mall in Juechii
Where I was eating Sushi....

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I have a friend whom you might know as Shan-Shan
And a long time ago, our friendship began
And for a long time we smiled
We were fickle; wild
And then,
We started to fight from time, to time again
And we slowly spread apart
Tearing my heart

But one day,
We walked by and said,"Hey" 
Suddenly everything was fine
And she was mine

We now walk and smile
Laugh for awhile
Just like in the beginning
And we are both winning
Winning each others sisterly love
High, high from above...

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