After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about
...After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about...
I decided to title my piece
a concatenation of a few different notions
incorporating fictional romance
alluding to myself and spous...
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Categories:
industrialization, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden...
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Categories:
industrialization, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Colonization
...One country controls an another is colonization, This process of power leads to imperialism, Is it benefittin...
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Categories:
industrialization, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Meadow For Autumn
...A meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest li...
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Categories:
industrialization, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation,
Form: Free verse
Lessons Learned From the Tennessee Valley
...Lessons Learned from the Tennessee Valley
Spoiled have we become!?
When you look back from whence, we have begun,
the provision of profit to our young,
that sheltered them fro...
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Categories:
industrialization, abuse, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
July First 2023 Will Celebrate
...July first 2023 will celebrate...
our sixth anniversary at Highland Manor Apartments
Subtitled: The perspective of one festive folky fellow
friendliness ofttimes prompts me
when crossing path...
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Categories:
industrialization, absence, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years
...As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...
Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradica...
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Categories:
industrialization, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Collisions Between Yours Truly and the Missus
...Collisions between yours truly and the missus
Space at a premium
in our apartment
lettered and numbered b44
at Highland Manor,
cuz the spouse
heavily trends toward disorderliness.
She read...
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Categories:
industrialization, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Conserve the Environment
...CONSERVE THE ENVIRONMENT.
I'm eaten and beaten,
Our fate us written,
As I see hunger striking,
I see death approaching,
Every dawn at our heels,
Down stream and to the hills,
To deplete ev...
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Categories:
industrialization, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
This Isn'T Poetry
...if I could trace back
to that period
before it all started
some hundreds shameful years ago
when, under thatch great men
with courageous minds were made
Days,
when we aim neither
for fanc...
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Categories:
industrialization, africa,
Form: Free verse
Ill Suited For Madcap Twenty First Century World
...Ill suited for madcap twenty first century world
One garden variety generic male - the
very writer of these words feels akin
to an anachronism, whereby his being
alive at this juncture within t...
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Categories:
industrialization, absence, adventure, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
All In the Name of Progress
...All In The Name Of "Progress"
The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I call...
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Categories:
industrialization, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
bet...
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Categories:
industrialization, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
The Year 6555
...We're now in the year 6555, and I am feeling happy and so alive,
Above, sunshine pours like honey, as along the oceanside I drive.
Wind whips my hair around, beneath skies a deep sparkling blue,
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Categories:
industrialization, fantasy, future, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 Pm
...Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives
That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
rak...
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Categories:
industrialization, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
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