Long Myanmar Poems

A pure Hawaiian of rare birth,
living a life somewhat carefree,
fed farm animals by this squirt,
sticks and stones were real toys indeed,
set trash ablaze, be on alert,
a barefoot country kid, that's me,
a runner on trails made...

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absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare stand in the way

of its progress---

with black gold funneling back...

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It's true
Bunking its task
in the blue sky
Golden sunshine
Lies down morose
In sorrow
Laying its head on the tree trunk
Looking pale
It surprises me
As I see it smeared
With ashes of fear
All over its countenance
Will he too be raped and...

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Stop the war 
I say it straight from the start
It's not just breaking down walls and bombing buildings 
It's destroying human hearts 

In lands where conflict's ignite
Where nations clash and people are full of fright
A...

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if I lie, will you believe me?
what if I don't, will you believe me?
what must I do for you to believe me?
what must I say for you to believe me?

what do you believe?
what you see...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of the Supreme High Command of the International Militaro-Business Conspiracy I...

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Farewell 2014, God Bless You
               Good years pass in a wink
      The cup is broken before...

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It what it is?
How can it be what it is?
These are humans,
These are living beings, 
Just like you and me!

How would you like it?
 if you were the ones.
You were the ones that were facing...

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For many people outside the Myanmar poetry, it may come as a surprise that there is such a thing as language-oriented poetry contemporary poetry scene in Myanmar. The Poetry of the bourgeoisie and the "art...

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[Dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, the greatest Fraud of all times]

Darkness like Halagu Khan is running
taking sword in hand;
Light is fleeing raising its tail.

The decorated dream-city will lose its
electricity for ever;
in all directions, the...

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An Invitation 
from Salt Lake City
(1)	In this great nation, the 
United States of the America,
	People who had been 
residing for quite a while,
	And if you have never 
ever been to Salt Lake City 
altogether
	Should come...

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Door arrives door disappears
Door deprives door shares
Had doors been toward one way only
Life would have lost its lustre

With one hand life provides
With the other life robs us
Life sometimes brutally divides
Some other time it is Mother...

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Maldvies, Malaysia, Malta, more - Up for my prayer during Global Pandemic

LORD, I humbly greet You, return to my prayer list with "M" countries
(I would like to intercede for Mexico, so close to the "troubled"...

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To my dear Ruqiya(Bu Bu),
Up in heaven
Happy hunting ground
And we are all sending our prayers.

To my dear Ruqiya(Bu Bu),
We all miss you today
You're not dead, you still alive our heart
Your life is so long.

To my...

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PHANTASMAGORIA

If you don't like where you are..take a trip in your mind
Look in your brain's dark corners and see what you find
There are places a groaning board tempts with an epicurean delight
But the populace heads...

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My respected teacher
She treated me like a parent
Kind and caring for me
She made my life heaven,

She taught me
How to write and draw
She taught me
How to read and how to use 

She gives me many lessons
No...

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First day at the college with my new car,
	as I wanted to make it perfect.
	Yes, dressed like a rock star.

	You know!  How choosy we really are..
	As to our whole world, it does affect.	
	And I...

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Peter loved his wife Carmen Lúcia
                             Their...

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Who, or what, do you think you are?
  A Bollywood star
    A Turkish bazaar
      An iron crowbar
        A permanent...

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I make so many opportunities to optimistic to  
Know why the stream of heart is so lonely, firstly I realized it loneliness during my busy time around the corner of the stream.
Nothing is there...

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Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor 
Said, "The Brits said I wouldn't go far." 
If fans ask, I got the lot 
Say I am secretly been given a plot.




1/23/2018

Poetry Contest: Educate Me with Humor...

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In Myanmar,
We wish to be writers.
But our pens have been snatched.
Because of just being Rohingya.

In Myanmar,
we wish to be doctors.
But we have been banned from higher study.
Because of just being Rohingya.

In Myanmar,
we wish to be...

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Many problems

So many problems, Myanmar is no longer “democratic.”
the army staged a coup and the famous lady- I can´t spell her name
was arrested and sent back to her villa by the lake.
In India, the prime...

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How it is so insane

There is a hardening of empathy in the blood vessels
of the Western world has peace lasted too long, if we
regard bloodletting as a natural cycle like the seasons
and now it is...

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A boy may play at war with toy type gun,
     although less now than in some years ago;
a make-believe endeavor just for fun.

     So shocking now, for...

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