Kimberly Burnham

What if
reading a poem could improve
symptoms in Parkinson's disease
poem stories in action
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A state of supreme pleasurable
satiety where there is a feeling
of enough and nothing more
called by different names
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Autoimmune
cells fighting their neighbors
a multitude of languages
purposes needs misfiring
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I said, 'My back hurts'
she said, 'let me tell you a story'
you walked in here wanting
something to change
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Does someone have to lose
to have peace
"mem" or "emem" in Efik
spoken in Nigeria
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Known well
easier to learn a foreign language
at an early age
today teach a child
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Shi - the breath of life
they breathed life into writing and poetry
thousands of years ago
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The Altic root dictionary
a variation on "am"
to be quiet or sleep in
Tungus-Manchu Mongolian and Turkic
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Clock ticking
big hand approaches 12
small one already counting ten
museum doors roll
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smooth textured
elemental H two O
a pairing of
immeasurable
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There is a saying
in Acholi spoken in Uganda
"Ka lyec ariyo tye ka
lweny lum ayee deno can"
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Look to the mountains and the low lands
far in the distance
the colors are changing
emotions lifting shining
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Onomatopoeia naming
the sounds associated
buzz hiss
in Chuj a language of Guatemala
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In Old Chinese
ancient words of peace
"bhreŋ" is also level
even and just
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Om shanti cánti śanti
shánti shaanti shanti
peace in many languages
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"Zhi bde" peace
"dmag" war in Tibetan
"Bka' rtags kyi phyag rgya bzhi"
the four seals of the Buddha's teachings
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Peace flys
between an eagle and wood pigeon
in a Bushman dictionary text
"ganee" eagle
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Recently a written language again
"kev sib haum xeeb" or "kev tiaj tus"
or "kev thajyeeb nyab xeeb"
is peace in Hmong
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Sometimes words start well
in Skiri Pawnee a native American language
"acikspaarukstii" or "acikspaarukstiiʾuu"
is to have holy thoughts
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