The Good Old Days of 'Cancel Culture'
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Bouncing off a trampoline
Anton Dvorak fell on his head ~
A ‘cancelled Czech’
Poor Anton was dead
Long ago, in the 1600’s
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Categories:
dvorak, history, humor, nostalgia, word
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew Dvorak
...Antonin Leopold Dvorak
with melodies so on track
Symphonies&concerto superb
some of the best ever heard...
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Categories:
dvorak, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
New York City Evening
...After a good meal
I listen to Dvorak
Ease my troubled mind...
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Categories:
dvorak, food, music, peace,
Form: Senryu
Dvorak's Living Hell, Part I
...The new maid, Jo, walked out onto the deck,
Seeing the reclined form of Eric Dvorak.
He stretched out in the sun,
oblivious to everyone,
then leapt up quick, stiffness in his back.
Eric then s...
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Categories:
dvorak, betrayal, dark, death, horror,
Form: Narrative
Super Budgie
...Blue bird in a gilded cage:
But not as much as a single whistle from it,
and no piping, not even a proverbial peep,
only deafening silence from behind the bars.
To get the little ...
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Categories:
dvorak, art, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Power of Songs and Poems
...On my computer
I
play
songs of the late 1970's
My seed time
as it were
ELP, Yes, and King Crimson
Perhaps I will pick up a recording by
Nice
they did a great version of "Amer...
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Categories:
dvorak, music, poems, poetry, song,
Form: Free verse
On Dvorak
...Sun rising
Over the rampant seas
Clouds opening to reveal
The armies mustering
Preparing for death and decimation
They march steadily forward
Into the maws of
Misguided patriotism
As those ...
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Categories:
dvorak, conflict, confusion, death, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Karlovy Vary | a Czech City
...The spirit of the town
has its own songs.
Under the colonnades
light of the past
is breaking forth.
Cobbled pavements
-clear–
blend with
the presence.
Over old roofs
lingers music
from Dv...
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Categories:
dvorak, imagination
Form: Prose Poetry
Karlovy Vary
...Karlovy Vary
(Czech Republic)
The thoughts of the town
sing their songs.
Under the colonnades
light of the past
is breaking forth.
Cobbled pavements
-clear–
blend with
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Categories:
dvorak, nature
Form: I do not know?
Defenestrated
...That is how a love story goes,
people professing eternal fealty,
invoking the Almighty's guidance,
just cannot live without the other one.
But when
bills start to pile up,
mortgag...
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Categories:
dvorak, funny, husband, life, people,
Form: Free verse