Short Yama Poems

weeping for a worm
when cosmos on brink of doom
yama on an owl?

09 July 2021...

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Once upon a midnight dream
in the lush Andes scene.
Bonnie Yama jewel thief
went after Emerald green
She planned a master scheme
 Her need to get away unseen
Stick with her routine
grab those gems, jet stream
Slip through Custom's screen
Go back to New Orleans
Switch cash and the Glean
which she had foreseen
Bonnie Yama jewel thief
got away on New Year's Eve...

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Limericak crochetés:  Once a shy lost lass so-called Orga-San

Once a shy lost lass so-called Orga-San
Had much difficulty getting what you can
	Heard of fly-catcher
	Good at swatting lair
Gave him a lift bare-back over Japan

Trouble he wouldn’t get off Mama-San
She went without doing what on bed-pan
	Right over Fuji Yama
	Leap-frogged like No-diva
Earth sudden shook Tsunami filled her pan.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2015...

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The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces.
"The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces.
"The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his dissertation,
"And a 'lama' is a holy man of Tibetan derivation.
But what I cannot understand," says he, 
"Is why it's not left up to me
To solve a problem that's become the worst case
Of mispronunciation in the history of creation,
And spell it 'yama', like it sounds, in the first place!"
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