Crossroads
...These roads have always been here. Wood to brick, brick to stone, changes with the coming times. Modernity but where did it come from? All of a sudden, walking along different paths that lead to the ...
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Categories:
brattle, conflict, lost, memory, october,
Form: Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: To a Mouse
...To a Mouse
by Robert Burns
translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast,
Why’s such panic in your breast?
Why dash away, so quick, so rash...
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Categories:
brattle, animal, farm, home, house,
Form: Verse
Be Free, My Brothers
...Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
no more tattle, keen for battle.
Be free, my brothers!
The cause is great, our rights innate,
n...
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Categories:
brattle, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
The Saddle-Strapped Cattle
...Behold, dear reader, a bit about a boy and his battle,
He fought for his family, his friends and all of Earth's cattle,
His world was straddled by what rattled atop some saddle,
Bound all beneath ...
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Categories:
brattle, humor, metaphor,
Form: Burlesque
Couples
...(18/09/2011)
Love is identical with couples
Paper spread its space when the pen needs to settle a scribble
When the dust get bored, wind will show-up and blow
When the sun is stressed, rain will com...
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Categories:
brattle, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
The Barghest's Monody
...Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.
A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
will serenade.
Strin...
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Categories:
brattle, death, life,
Form: Ballad