Enigma
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It comes from time to time upon a wind
that wafts aromas fragrant to a mind
now wakened from long sleep.
And yet, perplexed, he is resigned
to yet again concede his own defeat,
a yoked...
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Categories:
bradstreet, mystery,
Form: Other
A Winter Moon
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
--Anne Bradstreet
It’s winter here, almos...
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Categories:
bradstreet, winter,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey
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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~ Anne Bradstreet
Winter’s quick wind sl...
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Categories:
bradstreet, appreciation, seasons, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Chattering Voices
...I pick up their idle chatter five days of the week.
Conversation with other passengers, I never seek
to learn of a secret one of them might privately leak.
But try as I might, I cannot hel...
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Categories:
bradstreet, travel, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Broken, Colored Glass
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he gathers bits of colored glass he finds
the odd bouquet of flowers past their prime
the flotsam from the street
once useful in a former time
some torn out pages from a well-worn book...
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Categories:
bradstreet, extended metaphor, poetry, writing,
Form: Other
Falling Down
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the corner of her mind, a shadowed thing
has reared its ugly head to bring her down
it always coincides
with when the world goes dark and brown
it does not matter that it has a name
a...
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Categories:
bradstreet, depression, seasons,
Form: Other
Exit Ramp
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The exit ramp looms large just up ahead,
though still an unknown distance ‘round the bend,
a terminus of sorts.
Perhaps a point from which to send
us out of time constraints, into the n...
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Categories:
bradstreet, death, time,
Form: Other
Clerihew Bradstreet
...English born Anne Bradstreet
first US poet,so quite a feat
'if ever two' her famed opening line
ironic with marriage now sadly in decline...
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Categories:
bradstreet, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Love Cento Poem
...True Love Cento
There must be a million ways
To say I love you
But these words will suffice for now
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If...
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Categories:
bradstreet, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part I
...Duncan was a young British soldier,
new recruit at fifteen years of age,
a good lad who followed his orders,
he was a fifer who liked to play,
his tunes directed men in the field,
the Blackwatch...
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Categories:
bradstreet, america, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Epic
''To My Dear and Loving Husband'': Perspective, Tone, and Effect In Anne Bradstreet's Poem
..."To My Dear and Loving Husband"
by Anne Bradstreet
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare me with ye women ...
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Categories:
bradstreet, feelings, husband, inspirational love,
Form: Prose
You and I
...You try to fly
I live to write
Together we form a holy union
Can you Feel the words moving through?
Moving from tip to tip
End to end
They branch out into a wing span
Try to take flight off ...
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Categories:
bradstreet, on writing and wordsfear,
Form: Free verse