The Meadow Comes Alive
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The meadow comes alive, dressed in colors,
remembering times when love was newly sweet,
with warm red sunsets embracing lovers
whispering old secrets without conceit,
while daisies dance in t...
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Categories:
feudal, first love,
Form: Sonnet
The Prismatic Self
...I say the word and feign a Freudian slip
From between its legs duplicities drip
Often doubling as a quip and tasting chalky, just a bit
History will record the troubling truth
that I never existe...
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Categories:
feudal, color, god, introspection, mirror,
Form: Quatrain
Braveheart
...Onward mere mortal man
Your stoic heart abides
Armor clad you make a stand
To brave the swelling tides
Quiet of conscience bred
You fight the torrid breeze
Over feudal lands you bled
And the...
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Categories:
feudal, war,
Form: Rhyme
April 16 Rain
...April 16—Rain
No Rain
In 2025, the world ended
With the collapse
Of the worldwide climate system.
Monster storms of the century
devastated half the world.
But the other half of the...
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Categories:
feudal, america, angst, anxiety, change,
Form: Political Verse
Trapped in the Ivy League
...Kathy Boudin thought the U.S. beyond repair,
She thought she saw the deep reality, and it was unfair.
From SDS to the Weather Underground,
She dived deep in Marxism, plain sense no longer found.
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Categories:
feudal, america, culture, freedom,
Form: Lyric
Tom and Mabel
...Just Tom and Mabel in the village,
No honorific ever known,
Too far down the pecking order for
Such respect to be shown.
Like so many in that village
My Dad and Mam worked on
A still almost feu...
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Categories:
feudal, appreciation, in memoriam, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Hi-Story of a Hill
...HI STORY of a HILL
They grazed their sheep upon my grass*
So many centuries in the past
In feudal times,a monastery of hope
'Til King Henry divorced the Pope
In later times upon my hill*
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Categories:
feudal, history,
Form: Personification
Bring Me Home
...Bring me home, oh Lord, to a land of wonder,
Where I can tell you my triumphs-
For in the glory of this effervescent blunder,
I sit meager and sickly, waiting.
I wait for news, oh Lord and Lady...
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Categories:
feudal, angst, anxiety, christian, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Minority
...Minority
Being with brute force in one,
And a helpless other for some,
Treating those who need care,
Will be your cure everywhere.
Mutual respect never exists,
As being in numbers always pe...
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Categories:
feudal, international,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Ancient Times
...This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced ...
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Categories:
feudal, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Immaculate
...Cover this stained façade with my tears
Streaking in rust down this immortal skin
I see the ravens fire rise rocket into the dark sky
Thunder resounds at its dark core
Rusted as feudal lord...
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Categories:
feudal, allegory, allusion, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Simple Watery Freeze
...Eutectic water ice with a time-extending elixir,
Casting a trivial covering of aqueous freezing.
In the puncture spirits of an exquisite spritzer,
The Esophagus of a beat glass, sublim...
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Categories:
feudal, analogy, caregiving, cute love,
Form: Pantoum
Idee Fixe
...don't even think about it
a bucket of motel ice in the face
proving the thing in itself does not exist
because he registered all the meanings all the time
with a nausea so profound
the retching...
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Categories:
feudal, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Love In Heaven
...There you're my Romeo, finally here
So, away I let my last pearl of tear
In the coffin we held our hands staying near
For my love, death is not to be fear
Eh my love, isn't this place dear?
A ...
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Categories:
feudal, death, heaven, i love
Form: Limerick
Final Tribute
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Final Tribute
(for the Last Caesar)
Give the annual percentile amount
of your iron-copper gathering
The yearly brow liquidity
is required by the silver arm of vexation
Hemogl...
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Categories:
feudal, judgement, money, society, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
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