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Cognomen Poems - Poems about Cognomen


Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
...Ah... tis nothing greater than... malfunctioning heater on that brisk winter day recorded here as proof positive regarding following reasonable rhyme. While scrolling thru poems crafted y......

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Categories: cognomen, 12th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon a Midnight
...On a dreary night in mid-December, As well as I can now remember, I sat and contemplated embers Smoldering in the fireplace, dying. Outside a bitter wind was howling, Inside were flickering sh......

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Categories: cognomen, humor, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Whats His Face
...His name could have been - 'What's his face?' We hunt for an epithet to fit an absent memory. In truth, he did escape many people. Some recalled him, but could only gesture a vague misshapen id......

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Categories: cognomen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Raped and Extinguished In the Sanctuary
...RAPED AND EXTINGUISHED IN THE SANCTUARY Malevolent violence in UNIBEN, Nigeria a virgin soul in a sacred home, Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa gang-rapped, bleeding like a ?? watermelon. The Universi......

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Categories: cognomen, 1st grade, for her,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Epitaph
...I studied the Roman epitaph Translation provided by museum staff Of a retired centurion of the 6th Legion Scratched in letters three inches tall on a gravestone found near Hadrian’s Wall The ......

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Categories: cognomen, history, imagery,
Form: Free verse



The Arab Cavalry Ride For Locales Damascene, and To Freshen Anew the Long-Vanished Gardens Cordovan
...On caparisoned, filleted camels do they Over the great, soft, tawny sands Ride; Unfurled flags and tribal standards flown amidst them, In the very midst of them- Of they, who astride great ta......

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Categories: cognomen, adventure, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Black Wedding
...Yes, it was a hot day for a black wedding, I swapped my life for a golden ring, I did not check those sinister omens, As I volunteered to change my cognomen, All our families, garbed in black, O......

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Categories: cognomen, celebration, wedding,
Form: Free verse
The Miller's Daughter
...A tale of greed, power, deception, discrimination and love. Miller, daughter, king— All the actors are present Except the small man. The king summons the miller for some reason. Summo......

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Categories: cognomen, fairy
Form: Haibun
Coretext.Messages
...Art and mind are once again Silent then. a quiet name Comes. Cognomen... Golden chickpea dance in fields Knowing strokes of paint do yield Genius genus genie genes in us. Electric Text in ......

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Categories: cognomen, adventure, fantasy, imagination
Form: I do not know?

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