Best Jonson Poems

Ben Jonson ' Hourglass'

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Ben Jonson a bricklayer by trade
poetics then came to his aid
He loved the epigrammatic quatrain
as they did not need to  tax his brain...

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Blank pages stare back at me 
waiting for my mind to pour 
its' heart out. 

I grab my pen, throw on my 
headphones wait, wait...

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The inn had gone to waste: I’d sold it off in haste.
Awaking in the gloom, as orbs lit up the room,
I recognised the ghost of...

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Brainwsh Ann-Lise

thoughts are deeds,
words are the weeds,
the mind collects sometimes,
a salesman speaks to in your mind,
hard sell his only crime,
the pressure aint sublime... 
brainwash ...

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"You will miss the best thing if you keep your eyes shut"

TIME passes a pleasant soft waft, 
Seems to be slow but not, 
it fast...

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Said Jonson, vulgar rhyme a petty crime
Swindling paupers begging fleeting stime
Opined syllabic compress from simple mimes
Which o'er lazy, temporal lobes did climb
Simple, jingoistic rhythms to...

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The night was dark an stormy,
The Billy goat went blind,
It flew into a barbed wire fence
 and  tore its never mind, {anonomous?}

Ole Don he...

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Two cowpokes stagger to the saloon
Fighting because thems fighting words
Over a red parrot blocking their path
Pacing arrogantly before the bar entrance
Flapping green wings and screeching
The...

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True Love Cento 

There must be a million ways 
To say I love you
But these words will suffice for now 
Take all my loves, my...

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Who woods these were Robert didn't know
But if Sam was there he would tell you so
That Eleanor Jonson lived in that shack
He brother Tim lived...

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Passion its
as passion writes of every line,
oh sweetest one you are divine,
between your thighs i burn to slip,
wet kisses moisten honey, ****,
till onto me you...

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Tarot Reader
You could do it well too! 

Zohar of the crystal ring,
 ask me questions, anything....
what comes to mind is the very thing 
that they...

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NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.

This is my translation of a...

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B-eacon
E-rases
N-egative

J-inx
O-f
N-ight
S-hadow
O-pening
N-ewness

Topic: Poet (Ben Jonson) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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