the competition
...(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)
I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.
The sun finally rises and its...
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Categories:
etudes, angst, anxiety, devotion, growing
Form: Free verse
Montage, Part One of Many
...I stand
Standing upon the emerald landscape
posture stiff and still
Eyes like black holes
devouring the space around me
Glass horse galloping, prisms
exploding through the plainlands
Time pas...
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Categories:
etudes, dream, imagery, imagination, longing,
Form: Free verse
Speared Again
...Tell me why, you dratted bard,
you have to come and spoil my yard?
All these centuries lying dead,
yet there, your voice, oft in my head.
So many times I start a phrase,
become aware I’m in your...
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Categories:
etudes, appreciation, humor, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Table Scraps
...Chimes, misdemeanors
serenity finger tips
fickle graced etudes...
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Categories:
etudes, allusion, desire, happiness, lost
Form: Haiku
Shimmerings
...Marble myths decline
effervescent never dones
promised etudes...
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Categories:
etudes, age, character, environment, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Pursuing Poetic Polyphony
...Applauding an Acrostic Aria
Bopping to a Ballade Ballet and Blank verse Berceuse
Clapping to a Cinquain Cantata and Couplet Chorale
Dancing to a Dizain Duet
Exalting in Etheree Etudes and Elegy E...
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Categories:
etudes, music, poetry,
Form: Abecedarian
Blessings of Music
...// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //
Appreciating an amazing artform: allegro, andante, or adagio...
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Categories:
etudes, appreciation, blessing, music,
Form: Abecedarian
Of All Places To Be
...Within the stillness one can hear etudes
from the birds that evoke a morning rise,
tranquil are the streams that glide by
ferns quiver from the touching breezes
quietness elicits and stirs full ...
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Categories:
etudes, imagery, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Hesitational Racial
...pushing
hard
against
the world
of oh too serious
poetry and smugness
sex
sexuality
sensuality
sensibilities
seeminglessly
seeming stupid
endless etudes
precluded poems
of it wasn't...
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Categories:
etudes, muse,
Form: I do not know?
My Jouncing Gait During Boyhood
...(an All Poetry feat to walk in
the poetic feet of Robert Frost)
Bucolic New England, circa
Early twentieth century New England
awash with dynamic harmonic leisureliness,
when much of North Am...
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Categories:
etudes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Drone In Emaj
...Exotic egos evade exit endings, encompass=ing eccentric
extensive earwaxed essentials/ergo enameled equi,
existentials everexuding extra egg entrenched eyecons,
extricating eerie effervescent ...
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Categories:
etudes, allegory, change, culture, fate,
Form: Alliteration
Frederic Chopin - the Acrostic Style
...~Frederic Chopin~
(Acrostic)
F antastic captivating, soulful music
R estful, serene very sweet love melodies
E ndearing, capturing soul and spirit with such
D ivine, calming wonderful note...
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Categories:
etudes, beautiful, love, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Decisions Part 1
...e temps passe rapidement
Et vient le temps des decisions
Faut-il quitter ou le Liban
Ou rester a la maison ?
Faut-il travailler
ou continuer mes etudes a l'universite?
je ne sais pas quoi deci...
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Categories:
etudes, life,
Form: Free verse
Frederic Chopin - the Acrostic Style
...~Frederic Chopin~
(Acrostic)
F antastic captivating, soulful music
R estful, serene very sweet love melodies
E ndearing, capturing soul and spirit with such
D ivine, calming wonderful note...
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Categories:
etudes, beautiful, love, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
A Hundred Poems - Ode To Etudes Op 25 No 12 In C Minor - Chopin
...Passion
whither is thy heavenly gift
Beg
I doth for pastures of romance
Love thee -- angel followeth me too
Kindness
compassion for all thy life
Understanding
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Categories:
etudes, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
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