Cantata of Wonder
...I. Cosmos — Adagio maestoso
What was it Einstein mused…
when he spoke in a kind of mathematical show ’n tell?
“If I rode on a beam of light…
through the deep dark reach of space…
what would ...
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Categories:
anyplace, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sing Along With Summer
...
Summer stares, graceful
as the quiet chirps
birdsong, let’s sing along…
joy unfolding, on wings
listening for His voice
in the heart, the soul, anyplace
growing old, while the...
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Categories:
anyplace, joy, muse, music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Tethered to this Time
...
Tethered to this time
anchored in this place
My roots lie deep beneath the ground
~ transport me anyplace
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Categories:
anyplace, journey, places, time,
Form: Rhyme
Is there any place you do not work
...My sister and I are identical twins
There is a bond that is unbreakable
We share the same face, same laugh, same mannerisms
Our hands move in similar if not identical ways when we talk with them.
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Categories:
anyplace, humor,
Form: Narrative
That Comfort Zone
...Age does not define us,
But our choices surely do.
How I live my life may not
At all appeal to you.
We have to find that comfort zone
Between our younger verve
And, in our later years, that w...
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Categories:
anyplace, age,
Form: Rhyme
Deploy Joy
...I Deploy Happiness and Joy,
Exuberant like a boy.
It's a brand new toy,
One you can enjoy,
Anytime,
Anyplace,
Put a smile on that face.
Feel that saving grace,
Filling the Emp...
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Categories:
anyplace, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ukrainian Poetry translations by Michael R Burch
...Dear God!
by Taras Shevchenko
translation by Michael R. Burch
Dear God, disaster again!
Life was once calm, serene...
But as soon as we began to break the chains
Of bondage that enslaved us,
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Categories:
anyplace, earth, friend, god, grave,
Form: Free verse
Peace
...I love to use best my eyes and hands and feet
and many more, and love to feel the cheerness of winds
around.
I love to find elsewhere how life is
and love to look and think and say so...
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Categories:
anyplace, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
bio
...She looks at me over her spectacles
Wondering what I am going to say.
Megaphone is needed since she can't hear.
She is always asking, "What did you say?"
Embarrassed to take her out anyplace
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Categories:
anyplace, self,
Form: Bio
Tedeschi Trucks Band
...Econo Lodge sign
High
On
Its
Pylon
Best we can do
For you Tedeschi Trucks
To put a moon in the sky
Over this interstate interchange
Jammed with cars and a de...
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Categories:
anyplace, emotions, giving, music, song,
Form: Free verse
So Lucky
...I’m so lucky to live near the Met,*
Where the art is as good as you’ll get
Anyplace you may go
And with every new show
I am grateful to be in its debt.
If I visit along with a friend,
Then it...
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Categories:
anyplace, appreciation, art, today,
Form: Rhyme
world I never imagined
...I have never seen children who cannot listen as hard as these students
They could if their mouths ever shut, but they are perpetually open.
Words coming hard and fast, for they may have never been ...
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Categories:
anyplace, school, teacher,
Form: Free verse
A Lovely Unicorn
...Love is so much and so little
Big blue moves to prove one is true
Donating a kidney or other organ
Or little thoughtful green gestures
Being there loyal and true holding hands
But in my life l...
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Categories:
anyplace, appreciation, emotions, horse, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Our Place in the Sun
...I was an eminent, solar physicist, like the blushing rose, craving renown.
Each butterscotch morning I drove to work, and toiled until red sundown.
The observatory was the place I loved, keeping ...
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Categories:
anyplace, fantasy, imagery, leaving, mystery,
Form: Couplet
That Was Yesterday
...
He would stand atop his soap box,
yelling his sermon to the crowd.
He’d thump his chest and strut along,
go anyplace he was allowed.
He found it hard to understand,
ignorant people in this l...
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Categories:
anyplace, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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