Moon Dynasty
—A Lunar Ballad from the Year 2088
The year was 2088—
I stood in Beijing beneath neon skies,
Clutching a visa to the Moon,
Where dynasties now rise beyond the clouds.
China, bold architect of the stars,
Has carved empires on the Dark Side—
No longer myth or mystery,
But fields of fusion and factories of fire.
Helium-3, mined from silver dust,
Feeds reactors like
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Categories:
dynasty, adventure, courage, future, moon,
Form: Free verse
Political Dynasty
Branch holds ruling branch,
Sunlight shared, but shadows fall,
New shoots struggle down.
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Categories:
dynasty, political,
Form: Haiku
Desolate Dynasty
Encased in an isolated castle of an old fool’s paradise,
A decaying dagger rests upon a distressed oak table.
Frayed book pages scatter across termite-riddled floors.
The calligraphy carries echoes of triumphant battles,
Vividly etched in ink.
A revered legacy is forgotten in decades of decay,
Its inked glory
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Categories:
dynasty, dark, fantasy, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Syria, unshackled and free
Syria, unshackled by the three crimson stars, twinkling so free
Yearning for so long, for the green field, the future to be
Ripping off the blood-stained past of every sin and atrocity
In his strength, he made the lions and they dynasty flee
And they, the Guardians of the Syrian Homeland, became free
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Categories:
dynasty, change, freedom, hope, inspirational,
Form: Acrostic
Woman of Dynasty
woman of the dynasty era was a queen; in Egypt, she was a very lovely woman who looked
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at the horizon and saw the oasis's water. Remember when the water looks clear and see the moonlight when the lady of the dynasty era. The woman of the horizon within who needs to be free
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Categories:
dynasty, art, blessing, destiny, devotion,
Form: Other
Sorrows of the Wild Geese By Huang E
SORROWS OF THE WILD GEESE by HUANG E
These are my modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poet Huang E (1498–1569), also known as Huang Xiumei. She has been called the most outstanding female poet of the Ming Dynasty, and her husband Yang Shen its most outstanding male poet.
Sent to My Husband
by Huang
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Categories:
dynasty, marriage, poets, sorrow, wife,
Form: Free verse
Mughal Emperor
Aurang Zaib Alamgeer
Have you forgot Queen Tarabai?
A woman who fought defensive battles against you
Do you remember her swinging sword?
How can you forget that violent clash
When you put her skills to the test
She failed you while you were the best.
Lesson. Never underestimate a woman of substance.
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Categories:
dynasty, appreciation, bible, books, daughter,
Form: Narrative
His Dynasty Is Collapsing
Trump's dynasty is surely collapsing
His Atlanta hotel is almost vacant and crumbling
Pieces of concrete
Are falling to the street
Guess the date on his unpaid bills is elapsing
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Categories:
dynasty, corruption,
Form: Limerick
A New True Dynasty
There are teams
There are great teams
Then, there are dynasties
In the world of women's sports
There have been few that measure up
To the 2019 USA Women's World Cup Soccer Team
Every one of these 23 talented women
Has been groomed for this purpose their whole lives
Playing, working, training, focusing, listening, watching, and concentrating
On ONE thing ... The World Cup
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Categories:
dynasty, america, appreciation, soccer, sports,
Form: Free verse
Translation of Song Dynasty Poem: Plum Trees
Plum trees by the corner,
Sole bloom of winter;
With faint fragrance
Adorning the frost.
Poem by Wang An Shi (1021-1086 )
-Chancellor of Song dynasty 1070-74/1075-76
Translation: Brian Chung
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Categories:
dynasty, appreciation, beauty, culture, nature,
Form: Light Verse
A Dynasty of Love
My life a pitins
Love, dynasty, love
Forever i loom in love
Thee is a dynasty
Of love
I live forever
In this thought
Of love
Of a dynasty of love
I live forever in love
Trump this love of mine
I love no more
When i die
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Categories:
dynasty, love,
Form: Blank verse
Donald's Dynasty Designs
I hear Donald Trump
would love to bring to Republican plutocracy
what Abraham Lincoln represented for civilly warring democracy,
but that anti-enslavement resolution
is too hard for me to focus and sustain
in Trump is DivineTrump Land.
What remains most easily
is Donald Trump
as a Ronald Reagan rerun,
a bit of black and mostly relentlessly white,
although not really quite.
Perhaps if Ronald
had been born
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Categories:
dynasty, humor, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Depotic Dynasty Pasrt Two
Despotic dynasty part two
And when we entered the shiny city…it was on marshland
and there was smoke from chimneys of factories, but there
were streets of light and stores selling lingerie’s we could
not resist, there were beggars in the street which disturbed
us greatly, and workers we had fought for were working long
hours for
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Categories:
dynasty, history, peace, light, light,
Form: Blank verse
Journey To the West In the Tang Dynasty-N
As early as C.629 a Chinese monk Xuanzang of Jingtu temple
Motivated by the poor quality of translations of Buddhist scripture
Undertook a hazardous journey to bring the original from India
Despite the border being closed at the time due to a war.
He travelled through Gansu, Qinghai and Tian Shan mountains
And crossed what we call Kyrgystan. Uzbekistan
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Categories:
dynasty, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Into the Dark Dreaded Dynasty
Creeping behind the shadows
Awed by its extravagant architecture
Nighttime has arrived
I peered into the dark historical ages
Ornamental columns carved with exquisite designs
Soured into the sky
The scale of axial symmetry
Has conquered my eyes
Entering a garden so stylish and pure
With plunge bath of the night
Of lake emitting fragrances
Of the petal of lotus so bright
Stately mausoleums
Built
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Categories:
dynasty, art, history, imagination, places
Form: Free verse
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