Folklore Poems

Royal bengal tiger!
When swim to pass across river
Target is determined.
Just straight forward move on
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~ RAPE RIDE GIZMO @ $ 2 ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
15 June 15,2012
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My father believed in legends of Indian folklore -
Being raised in the Ohio River valley, he knew his share
He always believed the incessant hooting of an owl
Was the harbinger of imminent death.
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Touch

His warm, sideways glance
Wrapped me like an angora shawl-
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Chastity’…my apologies..
Poem by Sivan PG Menon
(Pl read the preface….penned below)
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I woke up and before I got out of bed I thought...
about words of a poem which I'd not yet wrought.
I once heard about something 'God' had 'wrought',
but THAT is not what, by tonight, I hope I've brought
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There was an anthropological study conducted on the children of an African tribe…
that I shall attempt as best I can…in this poem…to now describe.

A basket of fruit was placed under a tree…the children told to be fast and resolute
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The sea was in a foul mood, slamming hard and spraying mightily.
The walls of white battered and tossed the cargo of fools.
No enemy have I so vile, as to wish him aboard that vessel.
Nor have I, I hope, one that should wish me this watery purgatory.
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There on the foothills, across the river
Under the grim shadow of chilling fear
Stands the haunted mansion isolated
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Manushi Chhillar has made us proud;
Let this message glow clear and loud.

Beauty of a participant also counts;
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Did you ever think
of the metaphysical
aspects of sexuality.
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Diego Maradona
(30 October 1960 - 25 November 2020)

With Pele you were adjudged 'Man of the Century'
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Our poems are an example of words in full in flow,
The diversity and talent really does show,
By refusing to maintain the status quo,
The content and quality will continue to grow.
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The African moon is indigenous
With potentials peculiar to the people
The onset is heralded with shouts
In anticipation to the joy it brings
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Everyone will have a year they never forget and for a number of reasons mine is 1966.

I was 18 and King of the Hill in 66, knew it all, but knew nothing at all.
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… Oh, Why Do We Believe? …
… Because Real Legends, Never Leave
A Mistaken Myth, May Be Reality
Or Was It Just A Folklore Legacy
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Shrimp antennae cooked with gourd ovules
Husband pours broth, wife drinks aloud
Both nod their heads saying it's delicious - Folklore
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Ned Kelly was a hero and despite what some do say
The legend of his bravery in Australia lives today
As game as Ned Kelly is a well known Aussie quote
The leader of the Kelly gang remains as one of note.
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‘Christened’

We started thinking seven months before
About your name, from heroes or from folklore
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Ex-love
congratulations,
Enumerate my core.
Colonial colonization's
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In the elephant is great size
Muscular power to trample and crush
But the lion is the king
Built on power and might
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Swallow does not only describe aves or birds
He is the embodiment of a being who comes and visits this earth to provide benefits
From the towering coral duwur mountains to the sky that they have steady
Presented the beauty and exposure of nature that rises from the bottom of the ocean as a natural textbook
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There is a hearsay or a folklore that
The sequentially interconnected souls
Can take births now and thereafter
Or have a telepathic wave as and when
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Nkwayi Nkwayi, please come see
Yea, I'm fifty bu' back living with my mother
For that iNjadikunina came out of the African folklore
Tore through the childhood mystiques into the real now
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What are twins? Two persons
Born in a single moment in time?
Or the sharers of exact or similar
D.N.A., the keepers of secrets,
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first as to sofia,
i do not care for now.
the most converging
(and
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Hairy! !

East sea fairy!
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Fairy! ! 🧚‍♀️
Insight of a female fairy! 🧚‍♀️
Especially with magical powers! ! ! 🧚‍♀️
Remembering the wings! 🧚‍♀️
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Folklore,
The lore of the folks,
Faiths and beliefs
Of the countryside,
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PROPHETS FAILED US
Poem by Chan Mongol
February 9 of 2020
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