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Beautiful Madagascar

Of great ideas,
Of great words,
Please don't come to me empty handed;
Oh beautiful Madagascar!
You are one among the lot.
Like the year of the donkey,
Like the year of the bull,
Like the year of the cow,
Like the year of the dragon,
Like the year of the rat,
Like the year of the fish,
The best kept secrets of beautiful Madagascar! !

You are our hope and dream,
But you are supposed to be the pregnant girl;
With the muse of Africa to all who do visit you.
Pregnant with possibilities when,
Dogs are sold for fun;
Upon what are the foundations of the earth fastened?
Out of the whirlwind came beautiful Madagascar!

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poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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A Lame Man

A lame man from Lagos

married the princess of Madagascar

and went to Hawaii for honeymoon

with a Havana cigar aburning

And a spark from the cigar flew

transported by some uncanny crew

wafted by the waves of the cosmic wind

till it blew up Troy and Hiroshima

in a flash

A lame man from Lagos married the princess

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poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
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Salut Au Monde

O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman!
Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next!
Each answering all--each sharing the earth with all.

What widens within you, Walt Whitman?
What waves and soils exuding?
What climes? what persons and lands are here?
Who are the infants? some playing, some slumbering?
Who are the girls? who are the married women?
Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each
other's necks?
What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
What are the mountains call'd that rise so high in the mists?
What myriads of dwellings are they, fill'd with dwellers?

Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens;
Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east--America is provided for in the
west;
Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,

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poem by Walt Whitman
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Island of Lemurs: Madagascar

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Patricia Wright

trailer for Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, directed by David Douglas, screenplay by Drew Fellman (2014)
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A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

quote by Michael O'Donoghue
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Cast: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Schwimmer, Frances McDormand, Sherri Shepherd

trailer for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, directed by Eric Darnell, screenplay by Noah Baumbach (2012)
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Thembu

1658 in Madagascar!
And of the race of my lover being sold as a slave;
But this is my history and i am here with Thembu,
And of the great stories that led to the creation of my homeland.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

quote by Nigel Dennis
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Hoy Lu-Lu

I wish I too had black friends
With strange unheard-of names.
I wish I could travel with them
All the way from Madagascar To China.
I wish one of them,
On the deck, gazing at the stars,
Would sing 'Hoy lu-lu' every night.

I wish I could run into one of them
Out of the clear blue
In Paris.

poem by Orhan Veli Kanik
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Unimpressed

Unimpressed,
even though you discuss
and sketch details
of a wedding in Africa,
a honeymoon in Madagascar.

Indifferent,
inspite of the words
flavored to knock
such a cold distance
between us.

Suffused!
Your money is hanging
from my neck;
candle dinners, roses,
classic operas.

If only, dear...
we can be quiet

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poem by Melanie Agua
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