For Hebert
...I want to be known by one name
Like Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion
Like Pelé, Ali or a Great Champion
Like Edison, Jefferson and Washington.
I want to be known by just a name
By my pretty a...
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Categories:
flaubert, freedom, imagination, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Poets Are Us
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"Poets are Us"
The blood dripped
off each piranha's
sharpened fang
acquiescing
compliant
with tragic complacency
keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no ...
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Categories:
flaubert, dark, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
The Frustrations of a Poetic Writer
...Writing poetry draws one within
allowing the inward self to demonstrate
all that's been down there deep and dark
making your light shine before its too late
Irritation is a descriptive word
on...
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Categories:
flaubert, poets, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Words of a Sad Man
..." Imbecile is the one who doesn't ponder
same as mine ... "so said
Flaubert ...
Not being an imbecile and not
thinking exactly equal to him,
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Categories:
flaubert, allusion, appreciation, humorous, literature,
Form: Epigram
Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can
..."Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary ...
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Categories:
flaubert, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Docteur Bovary: Blessed Are the Meek
...Madame Bovary is the première novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. It tells the melancholy story of the entitled marriage into a lackluster middle-class lifestyl...
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Categories:
flaubert, character, muse,
Form: Tritina
Prophecy of Sand
...Men, they say
Dominators
Slayers
Conquerors
We have been subjugated by their culture and rules
The norms and the religions of masculine fools
The laws and the clowns
The world one da...
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Categories:
flaubert, dedication, divorce, history,
Form: Free verse