As Days Grow Short
...As days grow short and sunlight fades
Nature’s hues shift from bright to grey
in midst of plague, darkness pervades
the birds fly south but we must stay.
Together we will make it through
thou...
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Categories:
ballades, dark, light, winter,
Form: Quatern
If Only She Saw What I Saw
...before time invented beauty,
she lay,
stunning and exquisite-
words came like the zephyr wind
and the breeze filled her soul with
brilliant ballades
her quill filled her parchm...
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Categories:
ballades, dark, deep, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
...Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To ...
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Categories:
ballades, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Roundel
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 4 With a Clive Bush Comment By T Wignesan
...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry
Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri...
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Categories:
ballades, england, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Free verse
The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
...The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
for Fleur Adcock (b. February 10, 1934)
The hall was packed full, and the audie...
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Categories:
ballades, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Love Falls
...Her beauty was captivating
sweet of heart, flustered
within shades of hazel
searching still luster.
She seemed adrift the tides
vacant stare of sadness,
walking love lorn shadows
on mystic ...
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Categories:
ballades, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Aye,Aye, and a Mistress
...Writers wrong readers with wiles
Please protect poetry and prose
From flagrant fraudulent fancies
Of overwritten odius odes.
A related collection of poetry
Now can be published at whim.
The a...
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Categories:
ballades, on writing and words
Form: Acrostic
My Poetic Life
...I get up each morning and put on my glasses of poetry
Now I see everything in a new light,
My breakfast contains similies,
Metaphores for lunch,
And for dinner,
I think I'll have some rhymes.
I...
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Categories:
ballades, art, imagination, life, poetry,
Form: I do not know?