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Mandalay Poems - Poems about Mandalay

shipwreck
...Shipwrecked  He was Japanese, smiled politely  and took his shoes off I smiled also, it was the right thing for us to do,  shipwrecked sat in a rubber raft of the type leaving Tripoli  Lib......

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Categories: mandalay, 8th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Blank verse
In-between Lost Hours
...I'd wasted the hours between midnight and dawn, By dreaming of places where I did not belong. Kept recalling the words of an old country song, About loving and life and al......

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Categories: mandalay, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



Captain cook
...Captain cook I built a ship in a vale of stones and thorny bushes It took 24 years and more to set sail on a dream boat to China I met her on the blue sea of Malaga, sailed on her til she ......

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Categories: mandalay, absence, allah, april,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sweet Summer Night
...The hot cars slowly wend their way down Mandalay boulevard. Young men whistle and honk at the pretty girls walking away from the beach and toward the nearest club. It is nighttime here in Clearwater ......

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Categories: mandalay, romantic love, vacation,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Tree
...Dancing in a grove of trees South of Mandalay Grooving to a southern breeze In a happy way Suddenly a mango tree Strange as it may seem Opened wide and spoke to me Just like in a dream He......

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Categories: mandalay, appreciation, childhood, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Talking Waves
...TALKING WAVES. The sound the waves make on the shore Seem like they’re trying to say, “I’d never seen this rocky beach Until I did today.” “Before that I was out at sea, Miles and miles awa......

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Categories: mandalay, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxii
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXII IF you pull a long lonely face Standing all alone near or on a busy airport flyway Sans kith ni kin nor traffic police or friends en surplus Hell you'll b......

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Categories: mandalay, friend, humor, loneliness, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Granny's Tattoos
...Having one's person embellished with tattoos is all the rage today. Used to be that only carousing tars got tattooed in old Mandalay! They might have an 'Anchor' or 'Mother' tattooed on their chest......

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Categories: mandalay, grandmother, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fidgety Cats and Feline Pets
...Fidgety Cats And Feline Pets (A Parody) Fidgety cats and feline pets go out for a midnight run, Siamese are to rare to ever dare to And in B......

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Categories: mandalay, cat, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Letter Parody Song
...THE LETTER PARODY (MISTER MUELLER WROTE ME A LETTER) (To the tune of THE LETTER by the Boxtops 1968) Gimme a ticket on an aeroplane. Ain't got time to take a freight train. Ima leavin home! Ne......

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Categories: mandalay, parody,
Form: Lyric
Couplets
...My ship is set to sail next morn We are headed around Cape Horn Can’t say I welcome this trip much Ten thousand leagues or somewhat such Liverpool to Shanghai for tea British Sterling’s th......

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Categories: mandalay, ocean,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member What Happens In Vegas
...Just another Sunday on the Sunset Strip Where a country concert had taken a grip People had flocked from all around To listen to their favourite sound Josh and his buddies were up on stage Their......

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Categories: mandalay, death, mystery, pain, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Film Noir
...Film Noir By the lamppost at night with the pale moon shining bright but obscured by the fog I saw her in the harbor standing where my boat lay moored but she knew that her azure eyes beckon......

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Categories: mandalay, forgiveness, i love you,
Form: Ballade
Marxism For Dummies 1
..."Two kinds of people in this world, my friend," as that great thinker, Tuco, used to say: the road to Wigan Pier has reached its end? We're staying on the road to Mandalay? The first type j......

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Categories: mandalay, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Colonies
...It's good to be modern, don't you think? Bowling alley, skating rink. If we moderns want a swim, we drive our cars down to the gym. We've mastered plastics, studied steel, no fears about ......

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Categories: mandalay, satire,
Form: Couplet

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