Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn September twenty second
...Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn - September twenty second
But first etymological climatological meteorological esoterica:
The word autumn (/'??t?m/) is derived from Latin autu...
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Categories:
etruscan, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Broken Wishbone
...Auspicious wedding games played by Indian bride and groom,
Like finding names written on bride's orange vermilion bloom;
Searching the hidden ring out of thick turmeric water,
Or untying knots of ...
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Categories:
etruscan, games, life,
Form: Rhyme
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 6
...John: Sounds like I might like to straddle her equator with my meridian and throw down with a hula hoop on each arm. How soon can I execute my commission?
Mitchell: Do you like to eat sushi?
Jo...
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Categories:
etruscan, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Curriculum Vitae
...She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band in a t...
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Categories:
etruscan, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Most Harmonious Form
...The existence of the Greek profile,
the gods of Olympus...
The Roman Nose Sculpture
the handsome Etruscan athletes...
the wonder of the print
Nordic of Tho...
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Categories:
etruscan, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
Woman In Black Colors
...She cooks fish and rice,
her unfolded hips
pushing all into place.
Oils, and aromas,
train buds to lap at shadows.
The marl of her hands
turns bowls of smoke
into lemon and butter.
I won’t...
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Categories:
etruscan, poems, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Warlord Wars No More -1
...Clemency is a quality that I never understood
until after I crucified the Cilician pirates on Pergamus,
amusing isn't it, that I see mercy where brutality stood,
Death has a heartbeat for all of u...
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Categories:
etruscan, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Sprigs and Spirit of Sistine -12
...Yes, I remember the day very well,
I left my cave in Cumaea for the palace of Palatine,
the sun was sullen behind a veil of volcanic cloud,
Tarquin, the final king of the Etruscan Romans
was hand...
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Categories:
etruscan, creation,
Form: Epic
Etruscan Smile
...my soul is the shape of a bloodstain
poured there by Nadine Maraschino
my right eye sits
in the ruby voodoo goblet
that she wears upon her head
Nadine was a 3-toed egg laying harpy
from the cau...
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Categories:
etruscan, humanity, slam,
Form: Free verse
Beginnings Endings
...Beginnings – Endings
Out of the darkest reaches of time and space
came molten minerals, gasses, rocks, comets
– life traversing aeons, in suspended animation
across millions of light years, bil...
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Categories:
etruscan, history, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Sorcerer's Eerie Skull
...Dug out of an Etruscan crypt,
the sorcerer's eerie skull
will be used for an evil act...
amid lightening, darkness and gull.
The lad with frightened eyes screams
while they chant rhymes of a dead wit...
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Categories:
etruscan, places, social,
Form: Sonnet
Last Will & Testament
...To Mr. Otto Osips Ochs
My friend, the dream is exhausted
But as long as you chase it, I will follow
Mr. Dylan Thomas
Perhaps destiny it’s self will spare us
To yours, mine, our struggle
Their...
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Categories:
etruscan, art, life, music, peace,
Form: Ballad
Etruscan Rose
...Etruscan rose
a purpled blue,
I write a melody for you
Etruscan rose
magenta shade,
for you this pollonaise
is played.
Note like petals
spiral down
through Etruria
and "round
ancient r...
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Categories:
etruscan, death, lost love, time,
Form: Couplet
Isabel
...Sautéed scallops on the skirts of Italy
Debutantes of a chardonnay shimmy
Mediterranean terraces of broached stars
Gucci wallets moonlighting baroque hearts
Manolo Blahnik legs lavishly luring
High ...
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Categories:
etruscan, love, passion, places,
Form: Free verse
Bloodroot
...Photographs, fragile as Dead Sea scrolls,
hold two of you, dead before my birth,
stiff in sienna spring, serious as scabbards
on south Missouri farm.
Rosie: wind-hard in rock-scrubbed bla...
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Categories:
etruscan, death, family, life,
Form: Free verse
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