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Cat and Mouse

...Grimm's Fairy Tale:
Cat and Mouse in Partnership

Summary: 

A cat befriends a mouse and is so persuasive about her fondness for the smaller animal that the mouse agrees they should set up house...

Categories: folksong, animal, cat, children, fairy,
Form: Rhyme

Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning

...Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning 1-11-23  
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Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning

“Skylarks call across morning light”
...

Categories: folksong, bird, care, love, morning,
Form: Quatern

St Milt's Culinary Mission

...
                          The Mission in Milton Creek, I’ve acquisitioned
                          Converted into the town’s culinary mecca
                          Aptly designed and scenicall...

Categories: folksong, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Tamar the Great of Georgia

...[paraphrase of a Svan folksong]


I, I am Queen Tamar
I raised myself to Heaven
I dug up a barren mountain
I left only a deep hole
I put the sword to Constantinople
I drove them into the sea
...

Categories: folksong, adventure, allegory, dream, history,
Form: Lyric

The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part Two

...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART TWO
CÓRDOBA / QURTUBAH   950 AD / 339 AH

From Madinat al-Zahra
and the City of Córdoba, the roads
to the Renaissance are renamed and
traveled, patrolled and protec...

Categories: folksong, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse

Three Double-Dactyls

...I.

Higgledy piggledy
Roger de Coverley
Fonder of hoofing it
Than of romance

Found himself typified
Characteristically
King of the Reels and the
Lord of the Dance.  

II.

Willety wall...

Categories: folksong, dance, history, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Double Dactyl

White Lilacs

...White Lilacs

Memories rise
   like the scent of lilacs in the air
   simple yet fragrant filled with now forgotten cares,
once so important
   nothing could contain them
   as life hurried fo...

Categories: folksong, age, life, memory, time,
Form: Rhyme

Equations

...I read poems
You lend an ear
You sing folksong 
I am in tears
And the two go on for ever

I sow seeds
You water the saplings
I add manures
You add pesticides
And the two go on for ever

I...

Categories: folksong, cool, faith, feelings, for
Form: Free verse

Pearl of the Orient

...Seven thousand islands grace the shore
as narra trees arise , sun -dressed
with ripples humming a native folksong--
gracious the womenfolk, caressed
by Philippine beaches ever idyllic--
...

Categories: folksong, environment, home, ocean,
Form: Free verse

Like a Folk Song

...Where should I go and just how far
When I am playing on a great guitar?
Up and down its very illusive neck
Before I soon become a total wreck.

Each string I'm sure is supposed to sound
Like no one e...

Categories: folksong, humorous,
Form: Couplet