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.
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Categories:
cognomen, 12th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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
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?