Ramblings of a Lockdown
...An apple a day so they say
Barn owl hoots throughout the night
copper boiler full of Monday’s wash
dare one think of paradise?
Elite dancers shun the maypole
Flowers of purple garlands glisten...
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Categories:
hollander, angst, change,
Form: Abecedarian
Too Good To Be You Parts 1 and 2 a Poem On Plagiarism
...I guess we can struggle when we sit down to write
But use your own words - to plagiarise isn’t right
When I read a poem that’s simply too good to be true
I then begin to question, was...
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Categories:
hollander, corruption, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Skyward Lark, Moon, Trees, Hollander
...In blue tinged glow of lustrous night,
Hollander watches bird in flight.
In breathless, quiet, shadowy gloom,
Trees are restless, night's abloom!
Hollander, where has gone the sun
In which you...
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Categories:
hollander, beauty, bird, dark, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The Sense of Sound a Monostich
...Sounds in the mental ear
from a silent reading eye
broken monoku after John Hollander...
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Categories:
hollander, poetry, writing,
Form: Epigram
Phrasis-Emanations
...PHRASIS-emanations
Bewitched,type of shapes,images
of voices,a melodious resonance.
Reflections ,silent nights in the dark.
an anthology of light of wind and rain.
Metaphors and irony,curiosity ...
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Categories:
hollander, imagery, poetry,
Form: Verse
Reciprocity
...Alone,
and riding its momentum
out across the chasm
of an unreflecting void,
is Voyager,
its waning, hopeful beep
an act of faith; there lies within,
a particle of us--
ready to embrace the one
who ...
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Categories:
hollander, science,
Form: Free verse
Ghost Ship
...(Those who are familiar with the legend of
"The Flying Dutchman," or even the Wagnerian
opera with that title, will find it easy to
get into this poem; if not, I urge you to
check it out. Within the ...
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Categories:
hollander,
Form: Free verse