The Home We Made
...Pike Place Market and Space Needle
race tracks out at Indy
stands Jefferson's Memorial
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing)
Great Wall nearby Xia...
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Categories:
xian, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Favoritism
...He stuck it in,
soft dribbles, then a long kick,
pitch of clits, that dick's a rogue;
7ft 3, such huge pitch couldn't cloak.
And further up, light dance in,
Till the G-spot, boxed eighteen.
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Categories:
xian, allegory,
Form: Verse
The Terracotta Army
...We drove all day on dusty roads to Xian
in the Shaanxi province
to see the clay men.
The army is deployed in large archaeological pits.
Our guide, a Chinese beauty, marshals us from the front
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Categories:
xian, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Year of the Goat 2015
...Cymbals and fireworks crisp and crescendo through the
black of night past the chrysanthemums displays
for the year of the Goat begins.
from the mainland Chinese tourist arrive
red cars, red mon...
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Categories:
xian, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Me Wan See
...Oh, the wonders of China
Far different than those of Carolina.
"Me Wan See", I say to you
Land of the Orient, so vast and true.
Wonders that that land must hold
Are now for the br...
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Categories:
xian, adventure, hope, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
For Joy/ Memories of Xian, China
...Oh the heart tears.
It beats and throbs.
Well springs of light lanterns
Weave and bob.
Still, darkened grime rimed
portals glare,
sad, empty-eyed adults stare.
Oh the heart tears.
Its pulse...
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Categories:
xian, peopleheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme