Short Dubai Poems

Dubai is not for the faint-hearted, home of the richest rich.
They have outdone themselves in their hotels and buildings
Fabulous home of the rich and famous, opulence rules here...

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It's one of those bad days, don't know why
Parts need replacing on the furnace, from Dubai
Joking of course
What could be worse
Shipment's on its way arriving sometime next July...

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I skated holding onto the tail of a jet stream today.
We went to Dubai, Zimbabwe Omaha and Bombay.
I got back before lunch before my mother could say
Where have you been child? In the yard you must stay!...

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There was a lady from old Dubai
Lost her lover and began to cry
She gave up her courting
And wanton cavorting
She hurt so bad she wanted to die. 

Written March 31, 2022
9-9-6-6-9 syllables checked with PS
For “On a Lim” poetry contest
Sponsored by Joseph May...

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I snowed love
   In Moscow
I showed love
   In Warsaw

I kissed love
   In Paris
I romanced love
   In Rome

I showered love
   In London
I lived love
  In Sweden

I sited love 
   In Dubai
I tasted love
   In Mumbai

I burnt love
   In Jamaica 
I fell in love
   In Africa...

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Before Valentines Day
romance scams are on the rise.
Beware of a stranger talking sweet,
invading your cyber world.
Flattery will get you talking,
texting soul secrets and desires.
Phishing is his only business,
and after you are truly hooked
he'll reel in your bank account!

PS: He's really not a sheikh from Dubai!
...

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Sparkling sands, touching my toes,
lovely thoughts, makes me smile.
Winds so hot,yet so calm,
makes my mind,fresh and calm.
Arose from sand,standing tall,
skyline touching heavens above.
Night or day,never mind,
always on a brighter side.
Tall charming beauty,here she stands,
lest we forget,the men of past.
Bold & shining, in midst of chaos,
Its DUBAI, land of dreams....

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Pakistan is a cemetery..
When a Pakistani becomes rich
his bank accounts are in switzerland..
He invests in Dubai..
He consumes chinese..
He prays in Rome..
He travels to london for medical treatment..
His children study in europe..
If he die he will be buried in his native country..
Pakistan is just a cemetery for Pakistanis...
How could a cemetery be developed???...

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Sun lit Global pan fried soil 
Dubai desert in all distances mirage
A garden with full of flowers 
Isn’t a miracle?

Garden Miracle 
Butterflies taking wings to sky 
In the Butterfly garden 
Waving hi to all in Dubai

Hundred and fifty million flowers
Oder into noses in order 
Serving Dubai a scenting center 

Dubaian  like a mobile flower plant
Carrying fifty flowers per head...

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Words 

Dubai
Lumps of concrete 
Set in sand  

If you want to study
Marine biology
Don’t start with a tin of sardines 

Capital punishment 
Since we all are going to die
It is not a penalty 

Shrimps are
Insects of the oceans
Why not we eat butterflies

If all life is related 
Having the same origin
Aren’t we cannibals   

 
Are surgeons 
Red meat fanciers 
Or vegetarians...

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Of course it would be the notorious Fourth of July 
Here I am, a tourist, wandering around completely lost in Dubai
Waiting for Greek salad which I have always wanted to try
Wishing my friend Duno Brown would come past, by and by.

The prices of the food here are for the exclusively rich.
I fit in more with the workers outside who are digging a ditch.
I stare at the menu, conjuring up better prices, like a witch.
Being here on Independence Day is kind of a b..........

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The flying hills and its tinted gold
Its pyramids and the blinking moulds
Beautiful the night, a city behold
New dawn it was at Bur Dubai

The city that never boasts of mountain
Infertile the land unfriendly the grains
Until comes a dreamer called Maktoum
Muhammed, the son to raise the tune
 
At the sea end stands nations inertia
In father’s desires, Maktoum built to sky
Descendants of warriors, to sea he claimed
To build the Palms, the earth, for world to hail...

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