Best Viii Poems

You, my friend, 
are not a king or a prince 
neither are you a nobleman  
of 
a higher or lower rank, 
you are just...

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If you are reading "the Adventures of Soda Pop" for the first time, read the first in the series and the story will make more...

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Author's Note: Recite the following using the rhythm and melody of "Home, home on the range where the deer and the antelope play." The first...

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What I might ignore,
What I assume I ignore,
What I doubt that I ignore, and
What I know that I ignore,

As well as

What I might know,
What I...

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Inspiration is the roaming of the poet's soul onto divinity's planes of beauty!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     16 August 2022...

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Mom's jewelry box
black pearl ring, crystal bead necklace
sorority pin
gold pendants--more questions than
answers in velvet darkness...

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Unless 

A man succeeds in banishing all fears from his heart

Impossible would be for him true happiness to enjoy!









©  Demetrios Trifiatis
   ...

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Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon

Hear the call of the...

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I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness, 
without want to weep and moan,
He...

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King Henry VIII wed them
In order to bed them.
When they no longer suited
Had them executed.






For Catie's contest...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of...

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I
"Gotta job as a nanny!"
"Maybe they'll hire me as a butler"
"Butler and nanny always live
in close quarters"
She winks
He raises and eyebrow suggestively

II
"I love flirting with...

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VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless...

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You have every right to cry
The world has not been good to you
When you should have been playing
You saw the death of everyone you knew
It...

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I.

Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
He or she, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding...

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