As the third person BIO
A scientist once took to the skies,
With aerospace dreams and questioning whys.
He'd listen intently, a thoughtful façade,
Then go his own way—decisions, unflawed.
"Don’t argue!" he'd say, with wisdom so spry,
Yet soon he'd be caught in a passionate reply.
Papers unwritten, his ideas took flight,
But work clipped his wings before he could write.
He painted once, under a teacher’s
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Categories:
bios, identity,
Form: Free verse
Born In Original Sin ie: BIOs
Statuesque breaths of blossoming beauty bearing thorns.
Flowing fullness of fragrant flowery affairs sheathing weeds.
Without human intervention, such is the truth of nature, such are the facts of life.
According to the scriptures, angels are not earthbound lest they are tasked by Heaven's will.
I, like my family, had fine points and faults, I did good and I
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Categories:
bios, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bios Revealed
spliced narratives
in better taste
introspectives
richly painted
intertwined
with the fragile
things
of life
held dear
&
the doubts
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Categories:
bios, courage,
Form: Verse
Potted Bios of Three English Kings Named William
Potted Bios of William the Conqueror, William Rufus and William the Fourth
First a quick word on Robert the Devil,
whose turbulent life turned out quite a revel.
He fathered a child on a poor tanner's daughter
then dashed to repent in Jerusalem's quarter,
but on his return, sad to say, he died,
yet he set up his son, his
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Categories:
bios, history, horse,
Form: Couplet
Aexetastos Bios
In the agora or out on the street
Wherever public figures he did meet
In conversation he loved to engage
Only to find his questions would enrage
He chipped and chipped at their exterior
Their words hollow with no interior
His young disciples would heartily laugh
At his victims' unease and ev'ry gaffe
Good Socrates'deft manner quizzical
Drove them to plot a bitter reprisal
His
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Categories:
bios, hero, history, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Rhyme