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shyguypoetry Aug 2017
"How do you cook rice?"
My Chinese girlfriend asks me
Uh, what? we're Asian...
at Aug 2017
My name is Yellow.
As in the skin I bare,
and the heart beneath.

Yellow,
like the perfect grades,
and the failing student.

Yellow,
like the title stripped from my father,
and the title he wishes to strip from me.

Yellow,
unlike the parents,
and the silent daughter.

My name is Yellow.
And I am proud.
Emily May 2017
I sometimes feel I don't fit
I feel so wrong, so far away
I seem to clash with their outfit
A rainbow with a dot of gray

Other times they are a part of me
I am one of their own, a member of their pack
They become the best people I ever did see
I'm the missing puzzle piece that they lack

But mostly I just condemn myself
with uncertain thoughts of if they even like me
I become a timid shell of my true self
trying to become all I think they want me to be

My family is all so very white
I'm that one and only Asian
Isn't white said to be right
I'm Chinese, but I want to be caucasian
I know some of these thoughts are wrong, but they are some of the thoughts I do get and put to paper.
Katherine Laslie Apr 2017
I get this feeling
Like I am an Asian
In a Polish body

And I yearn
To be more Asian

^.^
“A nimbus on a fine day,
That’s what you’ve been to me.
The thought of you haunts me every night,
Pain engulfs me on a higher stance.
It has always been this hard for me,
Suffering from too much pain and agony,
The way you act like I’m not around
Have you had a thought where these feelings are bound?
I had to look at you on a lesser shade,
With hopes that all of my feelings will fade
Affections, Delusions and False hopes
Lost and confused, I am tightly gripped on a rope.
For you who lived with parting every day,
I know that you have grown to not be contained.
You cannot linger around people for nothing,
Behind your back, that’s where I’ll be standing.
Without delays I am at your support,
When you get weary from the journey you set forth.
I’ve tried to distance myself and put up a fight,
But I can’t withhold you, it doesn’t feel right.
Tell me; is there a way to “un-love”,
Once you’ve given up everything that you had.
When your longings have turned to hauntings now
Is it time for us to give our final vows?”
This is for the broken, the mistreated, those who were never given a decent explanation !! And for that boy who used me as a **** boy.

more about me @
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mori walts Apr 2016
Into a bow, I folded
paper wakame
and ate it.
Intentionally.

Compulsive behaviors include :
Ingredients such as :
relativity ,
perspective

taught me how to turn
something flat
three-dimensional
and visa-versa.
The Unfamilliar, not-yet-integrated
uncertain if it could be capitalized on,
forms of existing
somehow gathered shame
exposure
sexuality
erasure
childhood memory
determination
in tasting.
I would like my appetite back
when you are finished evaluating

Above the water horizon,
where none of us can see,
everything is different.
:
I can't believe I keep forgetting.
It's springtime in Santa rosa california. This website feels like livejournal in the 90s before I quit the Internet. Circles been drawn again and I feel capable in general, grateful, generous and well. Look at that letter "g" go.
Kara Subido Oct 2015
Mulat na naman ang aking mga mata,
Kakaisip sa mga iniwan ****
Alaala sa akin.

Mulat naman ako kung anong estado natin,
Alam ko naman na hindi na dapat ako
Umasa dahil siya pa din naman pipiliin mo.
Iba kasi siya. Wala akong laban.

Mulat na ako kahit noon pa man,
Na hanggang tingin na lamang ako.
Na tapos na ang lahat.

Mulat na ako na kahit anong gawin ko,
Wala nang salitang ''tayo''
Kailangan kong matutunan
Tanggapin.

Mulat ako na ang lahat nang
Ito ay isang bangungot lamang.

Kailangan kong gumising.

Tulungan mo ko.
No Hoots Gang Aug 2015
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Ching chong where's the ****?

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An old classic from me.
Six yards of glamour
Designed to cover the shame
Six yards of culture
Wrapped around her name
Six yards of colors
Different hues and grades
Six yards of silken armor
Displaying vanity and fame

She drapes herself in the morning
With the six yards of delicate weave
Starched, ironed, pleated and neat
She carries the burden in traditions name
In a world where she is respected
For what you show and what you wear
She carries her silken armor with pride
Revealed sensuous skin unseen..

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sari
P.s.
This poem is about the dress sari.... Six yards of printed cloth worn in the Asian sub continent.
In my country, it's draped in the Indian way as depicted in the picture and the Kandyan way, which is considered the national dress.
In the society where the males wear western attire as a norm, sari is considered the preferred and respected professional dress code for ladies.
Many feel important, respected as well as protected with it...despite the trouble ladies go through to wear this...... despite the fact that most of the time the upper back and midriff is revealed...

It's a nice dress.... it's a bittersweet connection..
James Alexander Dec 2014
If I could buy time I would save my last dime
To when it comes to when I'm dying
And tell the world as I was lying
The world can change
Just offer some change
To the poor on the street The hearts and the brains
Stereotypes are the death of humanity and if such continues caviar eating blacks and less fortunate whites and non scholastic Asians will begin to lose insanity
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