Warning of Krishna-A Translation
...Wandering in the woods for years,
Trials and Tribulations without fears,
Scorching heat, thorns and flood flow,
Came the Pandavas with a divine glow.
For days not Fortune lay wrappen,
Wait and W...
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Categories:
hamlets, encouraging, inspirational love,
Form: Epic
An Altruist Unsung
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She lived beside the old temple that has stood
For years on the rocky bank of the silent river
Flowing all through the lining greenery cover ,
The woods and the arable land rich and goo...
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Categories:
hamlets, life,
Form: Narrative
Fishermen of the Isles
...no cowboys in stock on this side,
but acrid fishermen provide
marine lifelines, hamlets sustain.
Spineless seas they ride, shark's terrain.
pre-dawn cowboys of Waves arise
early ...
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Categories:
hamlets, community, culture, fishing, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
...Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.
I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The ...
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Categories:
hamlets, brother, child, childhood, heart,
Form: Free verse
I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press
...I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press...
for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory and visual material
publicized in The Nation
magazine J...
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Categories:
hamlets, adventure, america, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
THE TRAIN JOURNEY
...TRAIN TRAVEL
I am on a superfast train
Listening to the soothing refrain,
Of the wheels on the railway track
Clickety clack, clickety clack.
Verdant vistas on either side,
Soothing visions ...
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Categories:
hamlets, travel,
Form: Rhyme
THE TRAIN JOURNEY
...TRAIN TRAVEL
I am on a superfast train
Listening to the soothing refrain,
Of the wheels on the railway track
Clickety clack, clickety clack.
Verdant vistas on either side,
Soothing visions ...
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Categories:
hamlets, travel,
Form: Rhyme
September
...A beautiful day in September.
The air is breathing yellow,
Painting the leaves golden
with each exhale.
Hues of autumn are unfolding,
Warmth and tenderness intertwine
With sunlight spreading ...
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Categories:
hamlets, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Marionetta
...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...
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Categories:
hamlets, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Easter as interpreted by one
...Easter as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devo...
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Categories:
hamlets, adventure, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
SNOTINGHAM
...From the unravelled and now exposed mystery
Tales of leafy Nottinghamshire
And the dusty tatty books of it's long history
Comes a tale
You'd think it was just a jest
However, it is a fact and...
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Categories:
hamlets, england, funny, giggle, history,
Form: Free verse
Bells
...Bells, bells, sound of bells fall now and then in my ears,
Their tone and timbre varying, sometimes singing,
Sometimes jarring, sometimes rising to a sweet crescendo.
Clanging and cl...
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Categories:
hamlets, feelings, funeral, Lullaby, sound,
Form: Free verse
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
...While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
...
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Categories:
hamlets, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Farolitos, Luminarias
...Farolitos: lanterns of candlelight;
Luminarias: outdoor fires of pine.
Both light quiet path on a Christmas night
for Mary and Joseph, old ones define
messages that the new babe is divine.
A c...
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Categories:
hamlets, appreciation, beauty, birth, celebration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Artistic Freedom In the Wild
...There are no shape walls
to bridle one's emotions
creativity is properly ventilated
unbound by meter or syllable count
embracing nakedness
yanked naked in its virginity
The binding ...
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Categories:
hamlets, analogy, appreciation, birth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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