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Shu Poems - Poems about Shu

Chinese Female Poets: English Translations VI
...CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Creamy Melons by Chao Luan-Luan translation by Michael R. Burch Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration, like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp, ......

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Categories: shu, body, flower, girl, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Chinese Female Poets: English Translations V
...CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red” by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch After swi......

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Categories: shu, flower, for her, girl,
Form: Free verse



Zhanaozen - 2
...2.Injured people. Mourning land. Mourning mother! Do not cry, stand strong our people! Without trembling, let the wild wolf be, Will it not heal its wounds with its tongue? Did cruelty nest in t......

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Categories: shu, freedom,
Form: Free verse
21 CENTURY MARKET OF SELLING A SOUL
... Beloved, let me embrace you, My touch sweeter than any virtual bliss, In this digital space, filled with coded delights, Let me revel in your pixelated perfection, Tiger, let me embrace you, M......

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Categories: shu, society, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Prologue 3
... LizPiggo didn't answer, she just handed the money over to the Chinese lady and nestled into the quadruple wide booster seat the Chinese lady had placed for her. She liked LizPiggo. Liz......

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Categories: shu, art,
Form: Other



Premium Member She Shu and Her Dragon Pit
...She is a shy unassuming quiet girl, She Shu We have known her for a year or two A dragon named Pit adopted her one day She keeps him by the pond, a little away We have tried to ask about Pit of......

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Categories: shu, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Want To Be Your Pancake
... You look so yummy I want to see how you taste Be my mu shu pork. I'll wrap myself around you. I want to be your pancake. ......

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Categories: shu, food, love,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member 'mistew Powiceman'
...Hi, Mistew Powiceman! Hi kid. Wutcha doin' outside? I'm just pwaying hide-and-seek wif my fwends Where's your mask, kid? In my pocket. I stawted sweating. Well, put it on again, ok? O......

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Categories: shu, child, mother, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
...The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth by Michael R. Burch When I was closest to love, it did not seem real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness it might dissolve in my mouth like a lo......

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Categories: shu, candy, love, metaphor, moon,
Form: Sonnet
You Never Listened
...You Never Listened by Michael R. Burch You never listened, though each night the rain wove its patterns again and trembled and glistened... You were not watching, though each night the s......

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Categories: shu, baby, birth, children, extended
Form: Sonnet
Earth's Oldest Love Poem
...The Love Song Of Shu-Sin loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Darling of my heart, my belovéd, your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey. Darling of my heart, my belovéd,......

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Categories: shu, desire, love, lust, sin,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Somewhere Out There
...SOMEWHERE OUT THERE the sun shines somewhere ou t there my door shu t blinds t oo t all and green the window shines as dusk awakens i ......

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Categories: shu, sun,
Form: Verse
Reality's Hymn
...Be-bop, shu-baby-bop, the blues on fire The strings an accelerant, the harp but a pyre The melody unseen, its heartbeat within Be-bop, shu-baby-bop —reality’s hymn (Villanova ......

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Categories: shu, music,
Form: Rhyme
In Front of the Decayed Tree, Numerous Trees Turn Green
...Shu and Chu are both remote and desolate areas Where I have lived in exile for twenty-three years. Nostalgic, I couldn’t help chanting the Reminiscent Song; Now I return home a weathered man abs......

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Categories: shu, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Long Distance Is Like That Between the Neighbors
...In the land of Qin kingdoms does the capital lie, While the Shu State looms far away in the mist. We share the same feelings when we say goodbye, For we both are in the same local official list. ......

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Categories: shu, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

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