Broken-Hearted Helena
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Our king was quite ill and almost dead.
I cured him and got him out of his bed.
My late father's knowledge saved the king's life.
The king wants Bertram to make me his wife.
This is...
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Categories:
bertram, literature, love,
Form: Rhyme
Crumm
...An anonymous artist had named the painting:
'Bertram Crumm'
it was simply a depiction of a man
trudging over a blank Landscape.
No one had heard of this man,
but this enigmatic fact alone was ...
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Categories:
bertram, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Prejudice
...We have just agreed on paper:
He is to us all 'A leper'
Still leper with his skyscraper,
No less so with his nice wrapper...
Oh Yes! For him some saved pepper,
Bertram T. Noah cause to caper,...
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Categories:
bertram, allusion, conflict, cry, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
...The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensate...
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Categories:
bertram, mythology,
Form: Prose
Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part 2
...continues from part 1
And I to him: “Show me where I can find,
If you want that I bring your news then up,
Who is who foresees with so bitter mind”.
Then he put his hand at the yaw to grasp
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Categories:
bertram, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Bare Foot Joey Mcphearson
...my buddy John's Bertram a wood antique
I fixed the engines while he varnish teak
so there we were Joe, John, and Kelly
with a cooler packed with bait so smelly
early in the morning waz headin o...
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Categories:
bertram, adventure, friendship, funnyblue, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Rastaman
...Walter Rodney
One evening leaving the bamboo hall
Stood me
Impaled with questions
Die me
To the dead colonial dreams
Wiped my tears of history
And showed me
Rastafari wading through the flood...
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Categories:
bertram, religionsound, children, sound,
Form: Free verse