Big Lift Ferry Poem F317

I don’t gamble with money –
I gamble with life –
Where stakes are highest

10.07.16

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion.

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Notes to this poem…

Got Something to Say [version 3.14]

Ask me about the weather,
Ask me what I think’s taboo,
Ask me if I would wear leather,
Or Who do I pray to?

Ask me any question, any day
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

Ask me how I’d solve global warming,
Ask me how I’d get world peace,
Ask me how I’d end world hunger,
Or inequality?

Ask me any question, any day,
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

But having an opinion, without discussion,
Thinking one is right, day and night,
Is a plan for, fights and war,
Hot heads, blood shed, lost heads and tears shed,
If we discuss our problems, I believe,
We can find the answers that would be,
Good for you and me!

So won’t you please tell me something,
What do you have to say?,
On any one of those things,
Or what strikes your fancy today?

Tell me your opinion, so that we,
Can mutually find the answers that would be,
Good for you and me…

And for humanity.

07.02.08 – 07.23.08

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Notes to this poem…

I’ve Always Got Something to Say [version 1.0]

Ask me about the weather,
Ask me how I do feng shui,
Ask me if I would wear leather,
Or to whom I pray?
Ask me any question, any  day,
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

Ask me what I think of friendship,
Ask me how I feel about love,
Ask me my views on money,
Or on happiness?
Ask me any question, any day,
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

Ask me about blogging, clear cut logging,
Autobahns and black swans,
Michael Jordan, Bob Dylan,
Islam, Viet Nam, H-bombs and my Mom,
Yeah, ask me any question, any day,
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

Ask me where I stand on abortion,
Ask me if I’d help someone die,
Ask me my beliefs in cloning,
Or in alien life.
Ask me any question, any day,
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

Ask me how I’d solve global warming,
Ask me how I’d get world peace,
Ask me how I’d end world hunger,
Or inequality?
Ask me any question, any day,
Ask me cause you know I’ve always,
Got something to say!

10.27.06 – 06.07.08

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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O122

‘Have you got a penny to spare?’
‘Have you got a penny to spare?’
‘Have you got a penny to spare?’
You know –
I think I’d be broke
If each time that guy asked me this –
I had cared

09.18.00

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O112

O.J. Simpson –
Some people
Have so much luck they
Can literally get away –
With murders

10.05.95 – 12.16.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O096

The Encyclopedia Britannica
Has an entry for Vienna –
Followed by that for Virgule –
Being who I am –
I automatically noticed
They forgot one for Viet Nam

09.27.95 – 10.02.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O086

A comet came to rest today –
Buried into the Earth
After having traveled a long way –
No one knew its place of birth –
Nor where it’s been on its journey –
Only that it now rests here
In a makeshift grave marked BARNEY –
A man whom only God held dear

08.11.95 – 09.16.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O064

Old World colonizers who
Sought to assimilate their victims
By washing the dirt from their victims’ skins –
They failed because they had no idea
The colours of their victims’ skin –
Came from within

07.12.95 – 07.14.95

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and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O062

Political correctness
Should not change the word history
To the likes of herstory or ourstory –
That – would be a grave inaccuracy!
In those times back then –
Historians were –
For the most part –
Men

07.10.95 – 07.12.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

A Well-rounded Personality

A well-rounded personality
Is somewhat like a ball
In that one can never –
At any given time – see it all
In its entirety

In attempts to get it on paper –
As in a cover letter –
Or – perhaps – on a résumé –
Misrepresentations will occur –
Leading judgments of others astray

07.11.95 – 07.12.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.

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Notes to this poem…

One Stanza Poem O055

Science teaches us to be curious –
To explore that which is not known –
I can’t help, then, but be curious
As to why – in as scientifically conscious
A world as that which we live in today –
So much hate and racism are still shown
By people assuming and fearing
Things of cultures to them unknown?

07.08.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
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Notes to this poem…

True Genius

True Genius is an incurable disease
With strains specific to individuals –
One only knows one has the ailment –
But one can do naught of its development

As for the rest of the world –
The ailment – few will be able understand –
Though often not until the Victim
Is beneath hundreds of thousands
Of hourglasses worth of sand

06.22.95

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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
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