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My Little Soldier Boy
Gary, you are my little soldier boy,
who died on Veteran's Day. ('83)
My sunny, golden-haired soldier boy,
that I still miss in every way.

You had just turned...

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Categories: cf, child, death, remember, boy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of...

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Categories: cf, age, humor, love, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Iv-Vi
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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Categories: cf, age, humor, satire, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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Categories: cf, age, humor, imagery, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford...

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Categories: cf, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of...

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Categories: cf, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Malay Pantun: Post-Colonial Writing
La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes
    The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies
Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes 
  ...

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Categories: cf, on writing and words,
Form: Pantoum
Aa To Df - the Complete List
AA     TO     DF,    THE COMPLETE    LIST  
   

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Categories: cf, funny,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration In the Thirukkural, Canto 4, K35
Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration in the THIRUKKURAL, a random example: Canto 4, K35 by T. Wignesan

alukkaaru avaavekuli innaacchol naangkum
ilukkaa iyanrathu aram (refined, shorn of...

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Categories: cf, memory, poetry, tamil,
Form: Epigram
My Brother James
We only talked sanely a few times, 
About how he also had a condition like me, 
Although my dad, who was a pharmacist, when James...

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Categories: cf, bereavement, birth, brother, childhood,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI  Part One

Be they so named or not in these...

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Categories: cf, care, city, horror, rights,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Metaphor of Outrage, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: Metafora Del Desafuero
Metaphor of outrage, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Metafora del desafuero

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Categories: cf, truth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer"...

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Categories: cf, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
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Categories: cf, celebrity, endurance, french, loss,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Villanelle: Nothing So Upturns Creative Cauldrons As Retching Up Art
Villanelle: Nothing so upturns creative cauldrons as retching up art

Nothing so upturns creative cauldrons as retching up art
As the craft not art of constructing poetry...

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Categories: cf, england, poetry, poets,
Form: Villanelle

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