Beau Ideal
...Nectared graces overwhelming must
Underline your pulse-halting charms;
Utopian opal spelt by honeyed terms,
Resistless pearl cased in mortal dust.
Fair-miened nymphs kings did melt;
But such...
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Categories:
gildings, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Pie In the Sky
...Fastidious gildings must dot your mien:
Sizzling lips that ooze unbridled charm,
And a neck sleekest with angelic luster
To daze the eye and sun a smitten arm.
Still deeper graces beyond corpo...
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Categories:
gildings, dream, feelings, first love,
Form: Ode
Berlin
...Berlin's a place that contradicts -
It's vibrant, but it's haunting,
The paradigm of hipness, with
A history most daunting.
The damage done in World War II
Reduced it to a rubble
And then th...
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Categories:
gildings, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Shutterbug Vivian Maier
...The Shutterbug (Vivian Maier) -by Trevor McLeod
She shot through life and captured photo.
Dismissed her name for art.
Took thousands of great photographs
and in the end did part.
Her photo...
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Categories:
gildings, appreciation, celebrity, character, dedication,
Form: Quatrain
Copper Pans
...“The lives of stone How rich they must be”
-Delphine, wife of Auguste Escoffier
Betrayed by ghosts
Alive in drifting candle...
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Categories:
gildings, dedication,
Form: Free verse