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Taiwanese Poems - Poems about Taiwanese

Premium Member Year of the Green Wood Snake
...New Year's Day, false prophets emerge from champagne bubbles predicting the end of mankind,,,they may be right this time. In Red China, it's the year of the green wood snake Poised to slither ......

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Categories: taiwanese, surreal,
Form: Free verse
THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD Part 2, from THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
... CONT FROM PART 1 ... PART 2 THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD When she was a fully grown woman she worried much less. She and her worried parents cried much less. Fo......

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Categories: taiwanese, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Vietnamese and Cantonese
... Nguyen was quite a linguist She spoke Chinese Japanese Taiwanese Vietnamese & Cantonese But not Americanese ~ Couldn't bling helserf to sa......

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Categories: taiwanese, giggle, language, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Late Chairman Mao Tse Tung
...You're facing a gun complete with barrels And of all things with firm holder quarrels! Chairman Mao would have laughed at you And kept repeating "No... No it's not true!" I guess, definitely, in ......

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Categories: taiwanese, character, cry, fear, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress
...The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress Another day of carnage In the USA Little children Eight, nine, ten and eleven years old, Their life cut short, By a mad person With an autom......

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Categories: taiwanese, baby, birthday, children, dad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Cedar Tree
...a flash of light ... thunder clapped like cannons as into the old tree we scurried ... the mouth of its little hollowed-out gut, yawning like some tired old man from a Dickens story ... perhap......

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Categories: taiwanese, love, romance, true love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fried Turtles
...Fried Turtles The little dog chews on the blue wire His sharp teeth need blunting So he picked this bomb wire to gnaw He likes biting and such like One of his main interests His master’s finger......

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Categories: taiwanese, conflict, dog, satire,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Taichung Along With Mitch
...~ Taichung Along with Mitch ~ * Rock-ribbed conservative Savvy, cautiously combative Mitch McConnell his name, of course His wife, Elaine Chao, a tour-de-force ____________......

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Categories: taiwanese, husband, identity, international, leadership,
Form: Clerihew
To You, Tainan-I
...In the beginning it was just a smell a smell i could not quite make sense of a smell that the city was, a smell that the people in it were in the beginning it was just a smell a smell that dra......

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Categories: taiwanese, city, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Poet Tea
...The night air, waters (somewhere) burble. A deer in the dark hoof-crunches yesterday’s now 12 degree snow. A mouse moves. In sudden urgency. Unseen all. Unnoticed, none. The moon is lo......

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Categories: taiwanese, fire, philosophy, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Eyes, Like Fireflies
...The concert had been perfect ... Chaka and Al Jarreau on the grass at Foxwoods A dry and warm July evening Sleepy full moon peeking up over the horizon (As if checking to mak......

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Categories: taiwanese, july, love, metaphor, romance,
Form: Free verse
Taiwan
...Originating from a tropical country My family and I decided to go to Taiwan We were on an airbus, big and long Sitting with each other and playing We set off heading to the east My, was it a lon......

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Categories: taiwanese, adventure, appreciation, beauty, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member More From 2000-2001
...Ode to Harris So they showed you the politics of poetics showed you how to sculpt quotations as if discreetly yours sure-e-e... they told you of your godhood at Harvard but they cruci......

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Categories: taiwanese, absence, adventure, bird, family,
Form: Free verse
Look Who Showed Up
...As I set out To jot down this poem I had no earthly idea Of what would transpose And who all would be Joining along I'm as surprised as you To these goings on I don't recollect A......

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Categories: taiwanese, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Asian Princess
...An Asian girl is a beautiful princess in her own right. She's the crown jewel in the lives of all American guys, even me. Even though this awesome Asian girl doesn't have a crown on her head, she's s......

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Categories: taiwanese, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, romance, girl,
Form: Epic

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