Dragon Head
...Heard my head screamin
My eyes couldn't see
Oh rum set me free
More flagons and mugs
But all my demons
Just won't let me be
So now all I see
Are dragons and thugs
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Categories:
flagons, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
HARVEST FESTIVAL
...Our summer crops are in and larders full
So we are now well stocked for winter’s worst
When we will face freezing Arctic attacks.
Our stock contains dried fruits, roots and nuts
Along with severa...
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Categories:
flagons, celebration, food, winter,
Form: Blank verse
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 3
...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about speech, wine, Paradise, poets, poetry, words and grief.
To hear my rose-bestrewing speech,
first place the flagon before me!
—Mirza Ghalib,...
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Categories:
flagons, moon, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Free verse
Legends
...Of Kings and Queens and magic rings
Sorcerers and Dragons
Of Knights and Squires and midnight fires
Wines from kegs and flagons
Of battles won beneath the sun
For castles in the sand
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Categories:
flagons, history,
Form: Rhyme
In Nodding
...though rather late, I woke up
i might have thought I wasted time in nodding
but what a wonderful dream I had
the hoary woods crew
danced on my eyelids
sourced balsam scent and poppies
the flo...
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Categories:
flagons, celebration, joy, life, wisdom,
Form: Suzette Prime
A Paean To Bacchus
...Happy May Day, all you PS boys and girls...EVOE!
Squeeze a cherry and let it sit,
And don't forget to take out the pit.
Let it ferment,
At least a day as a rule,
To give it some zing
And a ki...
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Categories:
flagons, humor, may, wine,
Form: Light Verse
Kith and Kin
...Whether mine sails in torrents, or sunshine,
can walk on water or sinks beneath waves,
hubs always succeeds to lift me up.
Children, like flagons of ludicrous wine,
their knott...
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Categories:
flagons, friendship, love,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Broken
...She had the fixation of their closeness
Ubnormally,her heart flapping from left to right
That night her table full of flagons
And every love film she saw was a hokum to her
Her thoughts flippe...
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Categories:
flagons, betrayal, sorrow,
Form: ABC
Assimilation Arrows
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Revisionist lies sold as materialistic truth
American tagged merchandise
voter bazaar discount barter
Stars and Stripes twenty-one gun salute
Intellectual dishonesty ... shifting core ...
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Categories:
flagons, metaphor, prejudice, symbolism, truth,
Form: Free verse
A True Story of Drinking
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A darkened world of dank false dreams,
painted with whiskey to mask my screams,
I'll blame the sun, the moon, the sky,
I'll blame the well wishing passers by,
I'll hide down deep i...
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Categories:
flagons, addiction, literature,
Form: Free verse
Handmaiden Cupbearer
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Carry to the king full flagons of wine,
this is your handmaiden’s duty mercy divine
Free-flowing ambrosia nectar fruit
mixed with stolen, silk tears of satin soft slavery
Pear-shaped h...
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Categories:
flagons, beauty, character, innocence, princess,
Form: Rhyme
Dinas Bran
...Dinas Bran
tell your tales
share them with me
I have travelled far to listen
your walls remaining
huddle forward like greyed old men
around a warming fire
let me sit quiet as the night...
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Categories:
flagons, adventure,
Form: Free verse
On Turning Fifty Contest
...ON TURNING FIFTY
As my cousin turned fifty there was talk of AARP.
Two years behind Danny, I ask the million dollar question:
“What is AARP?” – “Oh you’ll find out,” my uncle laughs....
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Categories:
flagons, age, humor,
Form: Free verse
Then I Opened That Door
...Then I Opened That Door…
To The Question: “How was your Day?” came this response…
The other day I arrived at work and found my chair was gone. Oh the Horrors!
No way to rest at my desk. I lo...
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Categories:
flagons, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
12 Days of Kiss-Mas
...On the 12th day of kiss-mass my true love sent to me
12 dirty undies
11 socks a stinking
10 shoes a humming
9 shirts for pressing
8 trousers
7 days of take-out boxes
6 flagons of beer
5 D V ...
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Categories:
flagons, anniversary, caregiving, christmas, devotion,
Form: Lyric
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