Missing
...My friend talks
of Ovid and the Vespers
She is on a train
past Colchester
to see her parents
I will surely miss her
I always get this way
when shes gone
I will go to bed early
and hope to ge...
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Categories:
colchester, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
There Is A Darkness
...*On the subject of Visual Exposure versus Narrative Coherence: "The difference between suspense and surprise is to give the audience some lead then leave the rest to their imagination," ....
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Categories:
colchester, allusion, appreciation, character, destiny,
Form: Narrative
A Name if it be Any Other
...My dearest, Poe, how doth I findeth thee,
By now 'tis be of common knowledge.
By the morrow the whole of Colchester will
hear of it--it'll be no privy matter, I'm sure.
And, um, wel...
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Categories:
colchester, absence, allusion, analogy,
Form: Narrative
Pandemic-Climate Recovery Teams
...In Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJu...
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Categories:
colchester, community, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Local Living Matters
...I hear things right side down
and bottom left side up
as I get older
so consider the source.
Anyway,
I hear Colchester Connecticut Democrats,
and some cross-registering Republicans,
want to ...
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Categories:
colchester, community, health, integrity, political,
Form: Political Verse
Alive Wreath Hardy Laurels
...Nope!, this aint a
(non) commercial
Christmas plug for ye,
nonetheless, a greeting
of joie de
vivre buttressed with
(wreath) in this ole
foreign nicked saint wann...
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Categories:
colchester, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ode
Somewhere In Colchester Great Britain
...Cupid loosed a love potion
laced arrow alas and alack
thy nineteen year young daughter
Shana Aubrey, smitten
with glassy eyed
and feverish amorousness
toward a Engli...
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Categories:
colchester, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jonathan Broom-Edwards
...Tall as they come, this man is 1 metre 85,
A basketball player inspired by the 2012s,
To compete in disability sport so to thrive,
At the high jump, his practice bookshelves.
Loughborough st...
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Categories:
colchester, basketball, body, health, sports,
Form: Quatrain