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Ferdinand Poems - Poems about Ferdinand

Premium Member GONZO STATION, Gulf of Oman, Northern Zone, 1980
...It had something to do with American hostages in Iran was all I knew. Some political complication that required a showing of the flag. But Iran had been our ally? I’d seen their sailors train at ou......

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Categories: ferdinand, allegory, america,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Thoroughbreds
...The two year old mahogany stallion's nostrils flared out mist in the cool April morning, his veins prominent, his sweat frothy on his regal neck and muscular chest. His exercise rider, a youth him......

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Categories: ferdinand, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Bartender Tales Ii: Changes
...Kerris spoke to Damian the junior Bartender on the phone. "Yeah, it's 8 o'clock now. I'll be there at 9 to Open. Meet me there at that time." He smiled happily thinking about His wife La......

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Categories: ferdinand, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Clerihew Willensen
...Jens Ferdinand Willinsen - a Dane resident in France in the main A painter/sculptor by prfession now included in Danish art Canon......

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Categories: ferdinand, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Foreseen Fatal Accident
...I feared for The Soon Traveling Fire, When I saw who was going to drive: Jack, who did thrice of men's lives deprive, He himself lucky to be alive; Now, with a left leg fracture does strive A......

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Categories: ferdinand, allusion, death, humanity, image,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Cry of Dolores
...A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst Their King Ferdina......

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Categories: ferdinand, cinco de mayo, cry,
Form: Rhyme
My Chair Was In the Path of Totality
...my chair was in the path of totality a thin ribbon about seventy miles wide moving West to East it does this because of at the equator Moon's shadow moves eastward at a greater velocity than Ea......

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Categories: ferdinand, humanity, myth, psychological, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watermelon Jam
... I’m riding on Victoria like Ferdinand Magellan; I’ve got this strange conception that Carnegie’s my melon. I’m tickling the ivory; I’m keying like a felon. Sure, I’m a tad inflated, ......

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Categories: ferdinand, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clerihew Hodler
...Ferdinand Hodler had no self doubt his topical art had much clout He also loved the silhouette narrative allegoryhus safe bet......

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Categories: ferdinand, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
A Nightmare Where Beauty Abounds
...Ooh DRC, DRC where are you? You’re the most beautiful country in the world You have all the resources Your minerals abound Your country is full of life’s necessities Europe exists because of y......

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Categories: ferdinand, beauty, community, conflict, corruption,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Eureka
...Eureka - a love song Tanka series ~ art by Edward Burne-Jones ~ It's a fair question: as you smile that smile, you ask how much I love you… "You are constant as the sun .........

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Categories: ferdinand, love,
Form: Tanka
Guerre De Trenches
...Who waits on tomorrow when today is barely tolerable? greet the sun and the light Green leaves, Warm brown bark. How many dawns will see them still, as they have always been? It happened a ......

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Categories: ferdinand, addiction, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Columbus In the New World
...Columbus In The New World Three ships sailed under Spanish colours (The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta) And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador, For Columbus and his crew to ma......

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Categories: ferdinand, america, columbus day, culture,
Form: Verse
Loos, France, Fall 1915
...Slaughter amongst the slag heaps Bodies bowed over barb wire Screeching, screaming artillery arching above soon to descend amputating limbs shattering skulls blood and brains splattering stai......

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Categories: ferdinand, death, history, war, world
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Liszt Liebestraum No 3
...Fluttering fingertips on ebony and ivory gently ascending like the wings of a white butterfly~ then gradually descending~ fading like a sleepy sun. Tender instrumental pauses ~ transposi......

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Categories: ferdinand, appreciation, love, music,
Form: Ekphrasis

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