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The Wife's Lament
..."The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD, making it the oldest English poetry anthology. "The Wife......

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Categories: ill starred, husband, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Long time Shelton, Washington transplants
...Long time Shelton, Washington transplants... also known as noteworthy Trader Joe's patrons bass sic lee did treble themselves conducting taping jam session assembling (boxing), compiling, and......

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Categories: ill starred, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



A Childish Muse For a Child Mind
...ntoward are the ill-starred, unto death is the road. Unto all is charity. Unto life is wine. The merry sing unto sleep then unto dreamlands they must go, I and you, each of us the king......

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Categories: ill starred, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Her Time
...HER TIME ill- dated she thought ill-humored her birth brought ill-omened her race ill-starred her pace. Through thick hide Though beffudled Hard-boiled she remained Her bright future is i......

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Categories: ill starred, confidence, encouraging, environment, time,
Form: Rhyme
Medieval Poems Iii
...Medieval Poems Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Weland knew the agony of exile. That indomitable smith was wrac......

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Categories: ill starred, england, grief, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Ill-Starred
...I wandered from mirror after mirror finding no home in any of them, for my reflection can only have a being in these eyes of yours.......

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Categories: ill starred, absence, fate, home, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Ensued Precedent
...Languor of the mind I. My, my, My how times flies. Another year has transpired. Yet, a City has not been revitalized to the image once defined. The crime rate has e......

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Categories: ill starred, city, conflict, corruption, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Star-Crossed
...“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce) “hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice) could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to know, The Starry Night<......

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Categories: ill starred, analogy, art, creation, fantasy,
Form: Ekphrasis
Necromancer
...I appear with the unbegotten In the hollows of the seen A shadow of the soon forgotten I enter through the dream Inhabiting the void In the source of germ and seed I bring forth th......

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Categories: ill starred, mystery, mythology,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Nun In Friar Small-Bro's Grave---Yard Part 2
...Continuation With ghouls, unlearned, no stone’s unturned to burnish blame with Nun’s proud name        and leave the midnight sky... scarred. They raise their hats to copy cats......

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Categories: ill starred, daughter, fantasy, mother, sister,
Form: Rhyme
The Witch and Her....
...Oh love – What dire straits you have landed in… What great peril, what curse lies, Heaped upon your innocent lamb’s skull You were born under an unlucky star, Poor unsuspecting slaughter-hou......

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Categories: ill starred, angst, devotion, imaginationdeath, death,
Form: Free verse
Slim Consolations
...You ought to thank your stars, you have the fortune of having only to pay a fortune to lose weight, just so your waistline and cholesterol and gluttony you will be able to temporarily beat. ......

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Categories: ill starred, health
Form: Tail-rhyme
Life Sleeps
...Your gaze hindered by the fading of our hearts. Darkness consoles my soul, malformed monsters swept into my lofty room. Remorse all about me. Anguish dwells where love use to lie, shrouded by t......

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Categories: ill starred, depression, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend, loss,
Form: Elegy
Sunday Morning Delight
...spider eater, gotta special bond spider-eating, one by one feel them squish on the tongue love the taste of the numbing venom cockroach eater, one under thumb roach-eating, oh what utter ......

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Categories: ill starred, art, death, food, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Adversity
...I shed a lot of silent tears last night Tensed greatly I was at my ill-starred plight My vigor was deteriorating My exuberance diminishing Life sucked out of my soul I was dearly wishing So many......

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Categories: ill starred, inspirational, war, heart, depression,
Form: Lyric

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