Echo from the Past
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The poetic image is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
– Gaston Bachelard
If memories invade ...
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Categories:
gaston, memory, mirror,
Form: Nonet
Go Bills
...There is a sadness in Buffalo,
that will always be felt inside.
The pain of four Superbowl losses,
just tears your heart and pride.
Jim Kelly, and the boys did all that
they could do. Four Sup...
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Categories:
gaston, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday Briana
...Briana it's so hard to think, you were so young.
Grown up, a young lady now, where has the time gone?
Your Success, allowed you to fly around the world.
So beautiful and smart, an Executive girl....
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Categories:
gaston, birthday, niece,
Form: Rhyme
Happy and Joyous Birthday To Elena
...Elena's cooking is so much desired.
A wonderful chef, she is to admire.
Her Lasagna is all our favorite.
You want to eat slow, and just savor it.
Italian dishes are her Specialty.
Marinara sauce...
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Categories:
gaston, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
GASTON GLOCK THE GUNSMITH GOES HOME
...??????GASTON GLOCK THE GUNSMITH GOES HOME??????
Gaston Glock, the genius gunsmith,
The gun guy behind mysterious myth
And the groundbreaking Glock handgun,
Produced the glock gun but now gone....
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Categories:
gaston, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Cajun Night Before Christmas
...As promised to Sara Baker... here is the Night Before Christmas,
Cajun style ~ by James Rice
~ ~ ~ ~
Twas the night before Christmas an'...
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Categories:
gaston, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
To My Father
...My last words to you were, "I love you." Those were your last words to me
on the phone. You were in Miami. The night we spoke you were rushed to the hospital. Your life was no more. The Angels carr...
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Categories:
gaston, fate, father, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Best of the Best
...the greatest lumberjack
Rufus the Lumberjack
the greatest hunter
Jo Lion Guinea Pig
THE BIGGEST FISHERMAN
Mr of the hooks
THE GREATEST VOCALIST
Paulinho...
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Categories:
gaston, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
21 Women
...When the American flag waved bravely, for women it did not FURL.
However, many bold and determined women have changed the WORLD.
I am a proud bother of 8 sisters;
Two of whom are older and 6 are...
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Categories:
gaston, women,
Form: Ode
The Road To the Super Bowl
...The Vikings and Bills, two teams that
share a feat, four trips to the Super
Bowl all ending in defeat.
A feeling of such sadness, that's
hard to put in words, creating deep
emotions, that are ...
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Categories:
gaston, appreciation, devotion, football, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Reunion
...The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...
First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and c...
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Categories:
gaston, age, character, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Unforgettables From My Youth-F
...I remember it well, and it's such a joy to tell of the fun
we had playing with toy cars and trucks in ...
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Categories:
gaston, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Oscar-Ku 31 -Gigi
...bon vivant Gaston
precocious carefree Gigi. . .
courtesan or wife
Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...
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Categories:
gaston, film, french, friendship, girl,
Form: Haiku
Madame Caillaux, Part 3 of 7
...(The writer Bourget is discussing the murder of
his friend, Gaston Calmette. Sixte is the hero of
one of Bourget's novels. Proust, another novelist,
lived in the street where the murder occurred...
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Categories:
gaston, history,
Form: Rhyme
Madame Caillaux, Part 2 of 7
...(Calmette, the editor of "Le Figaro" newspaper,
is ending his chat with his friend, Burget, as he
returns to his office. The "other Lipps" refers to
the Brasserie Lipps, a fashionable Paris resta...
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Categories:
gaston, history,
Form: Rhyme
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