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Still Same :: Swinburne Poem Form




Yes, I suffer, each night.
After sunset
alone spent time in fright,
makes me upset.
Tell me, why do you blame?
Your acts gave a bad name.
Why you try to...

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Categories: swinburne, love,
Form: Verse

Clerihew Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne 
with intricate poetry did earn
He loved to alliterate 
& lyrical verse to create...

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Categories: swinburne, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Spring Light

The light that loses, the night that wins
And time remembered is grief forgotten
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
and in green underwood and cover
Blossom by...

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Categories: swinburne, beautiful, change, flower, seasons,
Form: Free verse

A Letter To John Keats

Dear John,

A unique Epitaph you, yourself, penned so well

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water”

Though many have misunderstood your epitaph.
Which means “ Fame...

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Categories: swinburne, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Wedding and Marriage

This form Roundel is not included in the forms of poetry on PS. So I have to placeunder the category of Rondeau.
(A roundel (not to...

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Categories: swinburne, marriage, poetry,
Form: Roundel

Little Apollo Eolian

With what words doth ye describe

   thy deep soul,

   little Eolian, Apollo?

What ask of me thy plea,

   poesy 'darling'...

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Categories: swinburne, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Prince of Sweet Songs

PRINCE OF SWEET SONGS


"Prince of sweet songs made out of tears and fire......" ( A Ballad of  François Villon:Envoi-A.C. SWINBURNE)





The prince showed up in...

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Categories: swinburne, bird, song, sorrow, star,
Form: Haiku

Paradise Lost Or Enterprise: the Bus Ride, the Vessel -- Itemized

caught short singly
one rainwrote morning in hyannisport
when snows a science
over iceroof and snowfloor beachsand and
eastersundaysun a milton shadow opportunity
opposite sleeping young and russetrocket cool
in ferriswheels...

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Categories: swinburne, travel,
Form: Free verse

Translation of Eric Mottram's the Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull By T Wignesan

Translation of Eric Mottram's The Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull by T. Wignesan

Excerpts from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating...

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Categories: swinburne, america, french, memory, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Reverie

Swinburne form

Suspended on a hilltop,
I sit in reverie
considering my future.
How life is just a vapor,
yet worlds continue nonstop. 
Is this how things must be?
Suspended on...

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Categories: swinburne, destiny, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Ordinary Love, a Villanelle

Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug...

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Categories: swinburne, love, marriage, relationship, wife,
Form: Villanelle