A POEM SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD
...When Attis, in guise of maiden fair, did sing
Unto her comrades, lo, the thiasus stirred!
A cacophony of voices quivering,
The delicate tambourine, it did swell
With resonance, and hollow cymba...
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Categories:
fleetest, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Calliope's Song
...We open scene, a moonless dream
Ensconced in night held safe from light
And yet a mind of the keenest kind
Tells tales that tower of daylight hours:
With fleetest foot and fur of soot
The cat...
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Categories:
fleetest, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Vi
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI
On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right miss
how the hell c...
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Categories:
fleetest, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Free verse
Haiku Variations
...Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
Ho...
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Categories:
fleetest, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow,
Form: Haiku
Haiku 1
...The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Mich...
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Categories:
fleetest, family, heart, love, mother
Form: Haiku
Be Someone's Friend Today
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Be Someone's Friend Today
By: Tom Wright
8/9/99
T'would not be fitting
to sit and dream my time away.
While somewhere among the masses,
those exist, in need of friends today.
Shed...
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Categories:
fleetest, friendship, god,
Form: Lyric
Achilles and the Tortoise
...In ancient times as told in rhymes
there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead
you should go out and seek
The glorious fame that goes with your name,
my dearest ...
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Categories:
fleetest, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ungrateful Children a Parent's Lament
...UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN A parent's lament
Children
with Wings
and Talons
Pounce on the fleetest of hearts
their
Memories
Soar
over the
Blood Tra...
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Categories:
fleetest, childhood, father, children, introspection,
Form: Free verse