centennial change
morals corroded
humans live like skeletons ---
phantoms play ballets
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Categories:
centennial, evil, life,
Form: Haiku
Centennial
centennial
wooden chapel
summer hours
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Posted on September 14, 2018
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Categories:
centennial, age, devotion, peace, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Centennial Fury
The great American Songbook
whose words march off the page
Its music now a footnote
—to a century of rage
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
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Categories:
centennial, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Centennial Milestone
Born January eighth, nineteen thirteen
No champagne, no birthday cake
No celebration or even a banner
Only memories of a party
That might have been
January eighth, two thousand thirteen
Taken too soon
You would have reached a hundred
What your eyes have seen
All the progress you witnessed
For better or for worse
A century ago
Impossible for us
To even imagine
How times were different then
With so
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Categories:
centennial, birthday, grandmother, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Centennial Roses
Born January eighth
Nineteen thirteen
No clinking champagne flutes
No blowing out birthday candles
Only impressions of a party
That might have been
This reverent January eighth
Two thousand thirteen
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Submitted on November 5, 2017 for contest 8-LINE POEM sponsored by RICK PARISE - RANKED 3RD
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Categories:
centennial, birthday, grandmother, missing you,
Form: Free verse
A Centennial Maple Tree
I often visited this forest,
making acquaintance
with a centennial maple tree;
there I conversed eloquently...
as if I were talking to a trusted friend.
I went back yesterday around nine
to admire its shimmering green foilage,
and discovered it was cut down to a stump...
before crashing and breaking the brenches of birch and pine,
as black ooze bleeded, fuxed and bubbled
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Categories:
centennial, nature, sad, seasons,
Form: Quintain (English)