Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
...Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment...
analogous to where
the fountainhead of knowledge
gushes forth unstoppable
as a result after Atlas shrugged
his head and shoulders
loo...
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Categories:
historical fiction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...
I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories:
historical fiction, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
...neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
rather yours truly doth thrive
on keeping the ethos, mythos,
and pathos of Pigpen alive
subjected to eternal
abomination, brutalization,
condemnatio...
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Categories:
historical fiction, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
She Named Him Robert
...It caught me off-guard-- my outburst of copious tears!
For Margaret Ann Brady's heartbreak over the years :(
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In reaction to this historical fiction book...
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Categories:
historical fiction, america, history, how i
Form: Couplet
Rejoice At the Gift of Restored Health
...Just a poetic (souper) side note courtesy chief
wordsmith brother unaware ye experienced grief
diagnosed as walking pneumonia please bull lief
yours me, he doth care and breathes sigh of relief.
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Categories:
historical fiction, angst, blessing, brother, december,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Thoughts On Crossing the Delaware River
...There were two
Acting role written as ‘cool’
One from the first state
Other an empire whose façade outside looks great
Table chances inside the beachside resorts
A drive through free federal hig...
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Categories:
historical fiction, america, appreciation, patriotic, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Creating Chimeras
...If a book has footnotes, though it is fiction,
How do you classify it?
Historical fiction has made some inroads
To this chimera crossroads
But science fiction
Ironically, is behind...
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Categories:
historical fiction, beautiful, celebrity, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
...Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their own last
dro...
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Categories:
historical fiction, creation, england, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Epigram
As Far As I Can
...Sore to the bone
Running on a drop of energy
Just gotta push through
I'll rest eventually
My shoulder has gone numb
But my body feels her weight
As if she's gotten heavy
Since her unconsciou...
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Categories:
historical fiction, death, family, father, husband,
Form: Quatrain