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To Sister, This Heartfelt Sonnet of Love

...Dear sister...You, Charles, and Mom: all three, a part of my life forever; I love you all! But this sonnet is writ for thee (and for thee only): for you are, above all, my sibling Ac......

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Categories: achates, appreciation, love, poverty, sister,
Form: Sonnet

House of Dengbej

...In The House Of Dengbej Three sisters sit Each in crimson velvet And veiled hair. Relate tales Of interracial love. Of Armenian Boys and Kurdish Gals. This is a town of Cobbled streets a......

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Categories: achates, allegory, appreciation, beautiful, city,
Form: Rhyme

Journey of the Dead

...I saw him lying there In rigor mortis- lifeless, stiff and motionless: His prayers weren't lost, His visions the evil one couldn't shatter Into pieces. Soon his casket was whisked away Amid......

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Categories: achates, africa, bereavement, culture, death,
Form: Free verse

Verse

...Be not harried by apostasy spates Surcease ye flux of basilic imprecations Adhibit ye ,supernal paracletes The pith of divinity An Achates, Vae victis In this temporal realm Chatoyant fa......

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Categories: achates, song-
Form: ABC

Mind's Eye

...You are what I delineate as integrity, The honesty that beckons, You, my cohort, carry the knife's handle, Rather than stabbing me in the back, It stabs you and you become the trusted bearer o......

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Categories: achates, sad, me, me, integrity,
Form: ABC