Death Double Dactyl Poems

Clippity Cloppity
    Emily Davison
    confronted race horses
    losing her life

    dissident suffragette
 ...

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Spookily  Bookily
Dramatic apogee
Edgar A. Poe's verses
Death from curses

Quite artistically
characteristically
His poems were renowned
to be profound 

Gloomily  Doomily
So methodically
he wrote of never more
and sweet Lenore

Poe...

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Triumphty Truevity
David* prevailed as champ 
over gigantic reign
by the Lord’s might.

Shepherd boy vanquished foe
superpowerfully
trusting God with his faith
to kingship height.

Failury Fitfury 
Goliath midst great pride
met...

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Few lessons to learn,
From the echoes of past.
Some music of dance,
To emancipate yourself.

A silent river,
Encircled the green grass.
A moment to contemplate yourself.

Like circles of shadows,
Amidst...

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The Demon’s Poet
 
Wander the Earth
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
Immortality his burden
Abandoned and alone.

The Demon’s embrace
Excommunication
His fatal kiss
Tortured to the bone.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
April...

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Keats—Romantic Humanist  
 
Romanticus-Extraordinaire
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Circe-Enchantress to all.

Beautiful, deadly in her elfin grot
Supernatural-nous
She wept and sighed full sore
Hath thee in “Keatsian”...

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Lord Byron—Genius Unchained
 
Primus-Supremus-Romanticus
George Gordon Noel Byron
Destiny in Missolonghi at 36 
A soldier’s death.

Legendary immortality
Mega-accomplishment
For him the best
And now he’s at rest.

Gary Bateman, Copyright ©...

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Bryant’s Necropolis Conceit
 
Silent halls of death so cometh
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis supremeus now
A sepulchre awaits us all.

Dour darkness and shroud forever
Thanatopsis-Phantasmus
The spirit world so beckons...

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BEYOND YOUR END
Look deep into yourself my friend,
if then, you need to look to me, 
and deep enough to see the end,
beyond your end is...

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The Victor
Their cheers,
Your tears,
Blood drips from your hands,
Their lies,
Your cries,
You stand where the victor stands.
Was it worth it, worth the death,
Destruction, to your right and...

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Life is worth it
When I live for you
It’s how I know that this is love proven true
But there you fly now in the sky
Showing me...

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Grief that constricts my heart,
Cages its screaming walls,
Grinding its bars roughly into its flesh…
Where they meet, blood oozes, 
Life does what it chooses,
Heart shies away...

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Lets run for the hills is what you said to me but where are you now with another 
girl i
guessed i tell you how i...

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