Biography of Marina - a birthday poem for my mum
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Marina, Motherina, Baba, Mum!
Reflect upon what your life has become:
Born in Harbin to refugee Russians,
Tossed out by Mao, with mild repercussions.
Aussie girl, country girl, raised...
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Categories:
circuitously, birthday, grandmother, life, mother,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Snail Trails and Rat Tails
...My transportive
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.
My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.
I ask if I might speak
wi...
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Categories:
circuitously, community, health, humanity, nature,
Form: Political Verse
It
...Glutinous IT oozes, seeping IT displays
Odious IT's intent, to trap and waylays
Onwards to IT's purpose, IT suffers no delays
As darkness descends, IT could be end of days
IT circuitously trapped...
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Categories:
circuitously, dark, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme
Women
...their curriculum of beauty is suspense
it confuses the pure essence of sense
stuns and thrills man to indulge and languish
it is a catapult that revokes twitches to distinguish
women flowery to...
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Categories:
circuitously, women,
Form: Sonnet
Acrostic
...O sprey's circuitously scan the sandy bay
N esting gulls turn warily, then crouch to lay
T rippers emerge from beach holiday huts, some part clad
H orizon line now obscured by wind turbines, how s...
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Categories:
circuitously, beach,
Form: Acrostic
Commandment Battlement - Final Part -
...A pawn for a pawn, a crown to crown,
whom is Master of this Lodge in town,
this I enquire while preparing the pyre for you to retire,
my meddlesome mobility unabated, indicative of a congenital no...
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Categories:
circuitously, engagement, lost, war,
Form: Epic