A Shadorma Poem

Sunset. Shadorma

Winter sun
On the coast of death
White coffins
In the bay
Hoisting sail for unknown seas
As darkness descends

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Roses like soft rain
Deluge kills them brutally
Fallen pale petals
Drowning in a pool of regrets
As rain makes furrows in soil

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White foam on azure sea
Spindrift, brother of the cloud
Spins a magic rug
On which we can forever fly
Till fairytales come true

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Dipterous

Shadorma (Dipterous.)
An insect
Walks on the ceiling
A hideous
Blue bottle
Hope it does not lose its grip
And land in my soup

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For those who are dead
The planet doesn’t exist
And it never did
Must we for that reason think
Life is a lone planet’s dream?

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World News

World News

Obama won the election
With great elation
Yet the headlines in
Norwegian newspapers were
About cheese importation

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Ruled by the toffs
Social welfare, banks preserve
If you are poor
The state don’t want to know
Find a soup kitchen, my friend.

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Ruby, he gave her
Unclean as coagulated blood
Looked like stones
Rocks should come in a nice box
She gave them to an orphanage

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If you see the poor
In your leafy neighbourhood
Buy them a bus-ticket
So they can see our great land
And settle somewhere else.

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Wars are going green
Solar powdered Sherman tanks
No carbon footprints
Combat zones smell of roses
Unsoiled air and sanitary deaths

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