Mice and Rice

Oh! Those field mice emptied my bin of rice
But they kept few grains for me to swallow,
Not like some of my wonderful relatives here
They carry fire underneath the water.

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I have a dream

Play with the children
Never been to a playground,
Swim in the deep sea
With the souls struggle ashore
Watch the life with innocent blinds
And explain them
Life is blind!

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Undocumented Immigrants' melancholy song fades in the serene sky?

We're the Roses
We're the Tulips
We're the Daffodils
And we're all the flowers?
But not attached to the uprooted plants
And we've no a legal soil?

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My Parrot sings in the middle of the night

Boss! Why did you open the cage door?
I never betray you and I promise to stay further
Until you get your wings.

I dedicate this scribbling to my poet friend Jerry.Hughes

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A singing Horse

They say that I am a rare breed horse
But I never won a race.
Better you decide yourself my darling
Whether I am a horse or a donkey?

* To all my poet friends in gratitude.

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Suns & Moons

A horrible night
street lamps unlit
even the moon hides
a woman smiles.
searching a tavern
in between the sky and earth
a toothless smile of a ragged beggar
filled my thirst.

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Teahouse of the River's edge

It's closed since a long time
But the name board still stands.
Once in a way someone comes in a ferry
Stays for a while and he goes.
The mysterious Tea House is still closed.

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The Proposed University

A lost Politician mutters in his dream;
'One day I pick all the street children,
Send them to the University of Nightmare
And the teachers for them
I select from prisons! '

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Thousand flowers

Heavenly winds
But for this old fashioned Bee
Why all these Taboos
From the Synod,
And why did they cut my tiny wings?

*I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals.

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A scattered tear dropp laments in solitude

' I give everybody a slight comfort when they are in a sad mood
But when I cry who gives me at least a tattered handkerchief to wipe? '

* Do you believe some tears they talk?

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