Yesterday’s Wishes
...Back when girlish daydreams
rode the ether like coal-glowy-clouds
my featly feet kept a beat in spring grass
as I flounced with Romany winds—
breezy-gypsy-lips brushed my cheek
as I whirled i...
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Categories:
fifer, dream, innocence, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
Fifer a Quintain Variation
...PAINTING
so,so easy to do
when we know not..
oh so difficile
when we
do!...
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Categories:
fifer, art,
Form: Didactic
The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part I
...Duncan was a young British soldier,
new recruit at fifteen years of age,
a good lad who followed his orders,
he was a fifer who liked to play,
his tunes directed men in the field,
the Blackwatch...
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Categories:
fifer, america, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Epic
Silence Speaks
...silence is not always golden
sometimes it speaks volumes
if one listens
to bodies'
voice
02/11/2020
F F I series 71 fifer
Brian Strand blog series...
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Categories:
fifer, silence,
Form: Verse
Praise
...that which we hunger for
our appetite is huge—
times to reciprocate
we become
Skrooge
2/9/2020
F F I series 71 fifer
Brian Strand, sponsor
Poetry form: Fifer- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 lines ...
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Categories:
fifer, character, encouraging, uplifting,
Form: Didactic
Fifer the Form
...PAINTING
so,so easy to do
when we know not..
oh so difficile
when we
do!
After wise words of Degas
fifer (quintain)5,4,3,2,1 lines of reducing number of words(or syllables if preferred)...
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Categories:
fifer, art, poetry,
Form: Didactic