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Cordelia Celtic Fairy Goddess
told me today to rest 
and have more play
Beltane may be her day
yet called upon
she'll thaw your lil feelin's
like our alice in wonderland
embarrassed and bewildered
there's...

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Categories: cordelia, love,
Form: Free verse



I Am Cordelia
I am Cordelia in King Lear
My love to you cannot be expressed
With meaningless words the man created.
I know you will never ask me
Or ever wanted...

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Categories: cordelia, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Cordelia
Across the ocean and clear blue sky
For reason, what purpose I kept wondering why?
Dear Lord thou knowest is this the right choice
Comforted and strengthed by...

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© Ike Okafo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cordelia, love, wedding, wife, sweet,
Form: Ballad
Cordelia
Cordelia lies on silk
her skin as white as milk,
  supported on her side,
     hand held to her hair.
She poses all...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cordelia, art, mystery, passion, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member L'Overture
L'Overture


Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice

Ray Charles...

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Categories: cordelia, black african american, encouraging,
Form: Free verse



Letters From the War Pt1
My dearest Cordelia: I scribe this letter now to you from domestic port, the embrace of our farewell still entrenched deeply in my mind. The...

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Categories: cordelia, love, passion, romance, war,
Form: I do not know?
Red Wine King
Cordelia is dead
                      ...

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Categories: cordelia, dad, death, father, father
Form: Free verse
What We Most Fear
How like a monster is my fear of pain
Expanding to fill all my heart and mind
Swelling like a  giant sponge   in the...

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Categories: cordelia, baby, discrimination, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Events
slang..
up-dogged = when you chip in to keep a conversation trend going
fit = gorgeous
buje = unexplainable glamor
football minute = a minute, that with time-outs, that...

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Categories: cordelia, drink, humor, perspective, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flattery Not Kind
FLATTERY NOT KIND

play of Shakespeare
mad King Lear...fool —
a mere mirror

1/31/2019

Three daughters of King Lear. Cordelia would speak the truth. The other two killed the King...

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Categories: cordelia, betrayal,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member In This Last Waltz
** In This Last Waltz **

I am swirling around thoughts,
Swirling even ‘tween ‘em , too — stepping forward —
Getting ready for this nght’s joys to...

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Categories: cordelia, cinderella, dance, fantasy, fun,
Form: Prose Poetry
Madonna Lionessa (Part I)
--Before meeting with her father & sisters, Cordelia is dealt a card depicting Woodwose by
Mor-Ríoghain, in the guise of a gypsy hag.

i.

As my sister's once-beautiful...

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Categories: cordelia, angst, animalscat, me,
Form: Free verse
Madonna Lionessa (Part Ii)
ii.

And the glands beside your heart
Some secret of evolution they couldn't understand
So they never troubled themselves to puzzle
Out why you, their sphinx, remained silent
Now begin...

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Categories: cordelia, angst, animals
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Just William
Cordelia was the daughter of King Lear
In a play written by William Shakespeare
That's up for debate
I think it's too late
To find out the answer I...

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Categories: cordelia, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Merry Mary
Merry Mary seeds of Davidson Street
      What you know about the N.O.D.A. 1520?
      Where mama...

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Categories: cordelia, america, business, discrimination,
Form: Lyric

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