Who Says a Woman Can’t Rule?
...Who says a woman can’t bear the crown,
And lead a nation, renown upon renown?
Who says her hands can’t hold the reins,
Guiding her people through joys and pains?
America, the land of the free,
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Categories:
catherine the great, appreciation, career, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
Know Which Way the Wind Blows
..."A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination
or a headache," Quote by, Catherine the Great
(A gush of wind slights and pauses alighting a piece of paper
to rest between two me...
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Categories:
catherine the great, analogy, angst, art, fate,
Form: Other
Greatness
...What made Catherine the Great
The Great
instead of merely The Terrible
aristocrat?
Great is not her messianic
multiculturally inclusive
democratic therapeutic intent
Which is a surprisingl...
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Categories:
catherine the great, beauty, education, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Favourite Catherines
...Certainly not Catherine the Great of Russia, she’s
too fierce although she’d surely have put Putin in his place.
While Catherine Deneuve fired my adolescent Id, she
and Catherine Zeta-Jones are ...
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Categories:
catherine the great, love,
Form: Free verse
Catherine the Great of Russia
...She had no idea what a fantastic legacy of enlightenment she left
She was assertive woman who took no guff from any mortals.
Her self-confidence was well known; she was feared by men.
She gladly...
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Categories:
catherine the great, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Lyric
Trump Change
...1762 Catherine the Great:
"Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon métier.
Et le bon Dieu me pardonnera:
c'est son métier."
2017 Donald John Trump:
"Me, I will be an autocrat
That is my job
A...
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Categories:
catherine the great, conflict, culture, freedom, history,
Form: I do not know?
What In a Name
...la folle of chaos I was called as my mother told me me I was catherine of Alexandria
what do I know of history as learning every day what tomorrow will bring
and if a horse I'll be Catherine the gr...
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Categories:
catherine the great, horse, power, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Catherine the Great
...A czarina whose needs couldn’t wait.
Rumored to have a private stable,
with horses….if her Cossacks weren’t able.
For the clerihew 2 contest...
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Categories:
catherine the great, funny, history,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihews Fini
...PEE WEE HERMAN
Thought cops wouldn’t determine,
he put himself in that popcorn box.
Maybe he should have used his socks.
HOWARD HUGHES
A world famous recluse.
Millions for planes, women and c...
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Categories:
catherine the great, funny, life, people,
Form: Clerihew
My Heroine
...She wore an Armour over her dress
to go on and fight in the face of death
Joan of Arc is the name of the girl
that died at an age of nineteen years old
For the chance to make a change...
tell me...
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Categories:
catherine the great, devotionwomen, age, age, love,
Form: Verse
Catherine's Dilemma
...Although I was born and raised among German aristocracy,
I feel I have blended rather well with Russian nobility.
My name changed when I converted to Russian Orthodoxy.
I am now called Catherine. ...
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Categories:
catherine the great, history
Form: Rhyme
Legendary Lady Leaders I Salute You
...I am like
Cleopatra
embraced by serpents many
fear
always trying something new
and dramatic with my
hair
I am like
Eva Patrón
growing up with a painful family
getting lost in movies
thinki...
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Categories:
catherine the great, adventure, childhood, fantasy, children,
Form: Free verse
More Than These
...Faces, names, storied rememberances we have heard,
Odysseus, Alexander, so many Caesars, Kings of the Middle Ages.
More than these heroes, we remember the heroes of our family.
Wars, battles...
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Categories:
catherine the great, dedication, family, love
Form: Free verse