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Oration
words writen on paper
that would ring out louder
than any speech...

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Categories: oration, dedication
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: oration, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oration, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Acts of Kindness
A crazy old man once told me,
“Heaven is made of the things you give away.”
It appeared he was next in line for heaven
as he had...

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Categories: oration, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Loneliness
Such a finely honed sword is this loneliness
Slicing through tenuous sinews of yesterday.
I search for obscure corridors of happiness
Knowing that somehow I forgot the way.

From...

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Categories: oration, introspection, life
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part2
After the flame had come here for news
When to my duke right seemed time and too place,
In such a way I heard him to diffuse:

“You...

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Categories: oration, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
All Through Tuscany
The afternoon outlined. The sunny strokes
of a samurai blade on her body
revealing things the eyes feign see.
Tempted, wounded, the virgin parchment floats
between her skin and...

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Categories: oration, love, nature, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Greatest Performance of My Life
A small desire like a spark, I do not know lit from where,
Frenzy of becoming an orator in me did flair;
I watched often, like blackbirds,...

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Categories: oration, confidence, courage, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mark His Words
Marc Antony's funeral oration
Masterpiece of shrewd persuasion
  Igniting sundry Romans' fierce desire
  To douse 'noble Brutus' life with fire...

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Categories: oration, funeral, murder, spoken word,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Will Hereafter Come
Just when I followed night's evanescing sheen
behind a  rock-- on this quiet lake,
the humped seashell  drifted on:
      I...

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Categories: oration, future, identity, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Pledge of Allegiance, Revisited
I Pledge Allegiance
a solemn vow of obedience, from the earliest age of grievance,
when found deliverance, one people, united against tyranny and intolerance,
become the model of...

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Categories: oration, dedication, devotion, education, history,
Form: Free verse
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child...

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Categories: oration, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Sunset
Sequestered from mundane oration
Until this spell from Earth’s rotation
Meanders from my frozen gaze.
Melting clouds in pastel plush,
Evanescent waning rays,
Recant my vision’s wanderlust.

Slivered shards of ruby...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oration, sky, sun,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Reverends Yacht
I’d extend an invitation
to all in the congregation
through this speech of inspiration
which is quite a compilation
yet I expect no adulation
and no gest of adoration
for in...

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Categories: oration, corruption, dedication, devotion, paradise,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member In the Shadows of the Truth
The truth may not be
what it seems,
when wry words
penetrate innocent
minds and classic
flora
like sweet hemlock,
waits with a secret agenda.
 “A labyrinth of schizophrenic
evil of a mind
about...

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Categories: oration, political, social,
Form: Free verse

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