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Best Lat Poems


My Heart Is Sick and Sad
...Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, born at the close,
defeat your only destiny.
Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain, sometimes the strong
are chosen to fight the hopeless wars.

You began to lose before yo......

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Categories: lat,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Seagulls
...Going on a tram to Lattes*,
the tram rails winding this and that,
but first, Montpellier was seen.
Tall buildings, cream and white,
and the sight of seagulls
near bright sea.

Best day was......

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, bird, memory, places,
Form: Light Verse
Wonder
...Habitually, feeling an itch to write,
I’m introspective: sitting at the table
over a blank sheet, cherishing my blight
and rust, I think: “What if I'll not be able 
to write a single stanza anymo......

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Categories: lat, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member Nathaniel Bains
...Nathaniel Bains was a kindly man but had little brains
He was as skinny as a lat
Lived in a small country village
And a bird nested in his tall top hat.

Nathaniel resembled a scarecrow his clothes w......

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, character, fun, funny, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Snowflake That Sank the Titanic
...The Snowflake That Sank The Titanic

It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of gravity
In the f......

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Categories: lat, education, fate, history, remember,
Form: Verse
Metadata
...remember it's not the "actual" data
it's only the metadata, but we
never met a data we didn't love
there's treasure in detritus debris

with intense Holmesian determination
we'll be able to infer and......

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, computer, internet, introspection, society,
Form: Quatrain



Lost At Sea
...The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea
The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked
It would be fair time afore it sought the lee
With the slams and the pitching the ship could be wrac......

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Categories: lat, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse
Marat and Charlotte
...(A somnambulistic drama in four acts)

Actors:

Jean-Paul Marat; 
Charles Barbarou;
Charlotte Corday;
1st Philosopher;
2nd Philosopher;
The Commentator’s Voice.

Act 1. A tavern. Two philo......

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Categories: lat, death, life, love,
Form: Blank verse
Flagellum
...FLAGELLUM
                                                   limerick 

                               Harry yelled out "aut pax aut bellum"
                                   Indeed he lost his ......

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Categories: lat, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Fas - Tanka
...seeds of paradise
sowed in the palm of my dream
gave birth to rainbows...
i was given wings of light
to fly among memories...


fas (lat.) - fate......

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Categories: lat, life, philosophy
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Classified Part Two
...We turned off before reaching Kings Lynn and headed down a road that would take us to Henderson Aerodrome a local flying school, we were waved through the main gate and headed onto the main runway an......

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Categories: lat, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Dead Memories
...Dead Memories


Do you miss me?
Who are you?
Do you still love me?
Why do you ask?
Do you still think I'm wonderful?
I do not know 
Am I how you remember me?
Should I know you?
Do you remember me?
Th......

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Categories: lat, art, devotion, friendship, passion,
Form: Haiku
Ad Amore, Iv
...Beatrice:  Tu miri a la funestia de l'austeria 
                    commistion de l'invidia e d'acerbe
                  quando crescer non vive e pur ingeria:

                   principia sono ......

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Categories: lat, beauty, blessing, heart, hope,
Form: Terza Rima
Farewell My 'Little Nemo'
...I remember going to the next door store;
I remember a shelf of books
I opened one to see what was written within, 
To see the dry ink an author carved onto its pages
But, the book was empty and i......

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© Sara Zahed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, on writing and words,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Commissum - Sonnet
...my love, into thy hands I trust my heart,
for you to keep it safe, away from tears,
until the day when we shall be apart,
when we'll be free from any earthly fears.
I hereby pray thy hands to hol......

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Categories: lat, loveheart, heart,
Form: Sonnet

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