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Gentlefolk Poems - Poems about Gentlefolk


Premium Member Rum
...The Cuba Libre, also called rum and coke is favored by many kinds of folk. To its pleasures I succumb and ne’er refrain from! Sip, savor rum. What flavor! I sing and I hum! The taste is just ......

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Categories: gentlefolk, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet
...Oh, harken now, fair gentlefolk, I prithee lend an ear, For I shall weave a tale of love that many hearts will hear. The tale of Romeo and Juliet, of passion, pain, and strife, Of families sworn a......

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Categories: gentlefolk, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Awake In Nighttime Darkness
...I craft poems by evening time since I can't slumber. I'm dreary of the one with a springtime splendor. I'm lacking in rest, shrewdness, and moral dignity. I've lost my aware vicinit......

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Categories: gentlefolk, analogy, appreciation, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Rubaiyat
Medieval Poems Ii
...Medieval Poems Wulf and Eadwacer (Old English circa 990 AD) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My people pursue him like crippled prey. They'll rip him apart if he appr......

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Categories: gentlefolk, angel, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme
I Have Labored Sore Translation
...I Have Labored Sore anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I have labored sore / and suffered death, so now I rest / and ca......

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Categories: gentlefolk, christian, death, earth, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



The Murder Mystery
...Noble and wise watchers they be ‘Homage resounds in that Melodious Crawing that their salute too the great all and Everything begins too Herald. upward ‘and downwards ‘with purpose and res......

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Categories: gentlefolk, allegory, bird, birth,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
...The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the on......

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Categories: gentlefolk, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Instruction
...Instruction by Michael R. Burch Toss this poem aside to the filigreed and the wild tide of sunset. Strike my name, and still it is all the same. The onset of night is in the despairing ......

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Categories: gentlefolk, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Pastoral
I Am of Ireland: Medieval Irish Translation
...I am of Ireland (anonymous Medieval Irish Lyric, circa 13th-14th century AD) translation by Michael R. Burch I am of Ireland, and of the holy realm of Ireland. Gentlefolk I pray thee: for the......

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Categories: gentlefolk, ireland,
Form: Verse
Memory Quilt
...Memory Quilt “ For Auction contest “ Welcome all to today’s prestige event Let us start the day ladies and gentlefolk We have this wonderful memory quilt For your deliberation and delect......

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Categories: gentlefolk, beautiful, celebration, clothes, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amish Schoolhouse Murders
...Tragedy in Pennsylvania October, 2006 I watched 34 carriages and buggies snake toward three empty hand-dug graves. "Our lives are shattered," is quoted as an entire nation gazes i......

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Categories: gentlefolk, faith, family, farm, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resurrection Day
...Resurrection day. A day of hope and new beginnings. A day to archive the past and walk towards the future. Let's do it then:- let us all join hands and put our differences behind us. ......

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Categories: gentlefolk, hope, peace, uplifting, day,
Form: Free verse

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