Paul Hartal Poems

From the mountaintop
a marvelous scenery revealed itself.

Rainbow Slice's eyes swam in tears.
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It happened in the month of May
that the elephant fell in love
with a mosquito. And luckily enough
for him, the buzzing tiny insect
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'You are not here', said the Porcopine.
'But I am here', protested the Octopus.

'Well, are you in New York? '
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It is raining cats and mammoths.
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Jocelyn Bell, a young graduate student of astronomy
at Cambridge University, in 1967 observed bursts
of radio wave radiation at small intervals. They came
from a region between the stars Vega and Altair.
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"I believe this pandemic
will be less savage soon", said the Octopus.

"What do you mean? ",   asked the Porcupine.
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It was a Wednesday,
the third day of August in 1492,
when Christopher Columbus set sail
from the Iberian port of Palos.
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Let me start this story with a magic trip
to one of the most exciting places on Earth:
Xi'an.
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Once upon a time there was
a beautiful royal garden in Chang'an,
the capital city of China.
Empress Wu Zetian (624-705)liked to walk
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