Confronting Shadows- POTD
...On a dusky evening long time ago,
When shadows huddled at every corner,
When rain had gone and birds had roosted,
You held me close and whispered in my ear;
“In your eyes I see, th...
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Categories:
jove, beauty, lost love, missing
Form: Free verse
Light Within Blooms
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L-et
Y-our
N-atural
J-oy
O-pen
V-isions
E-ternal
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Lyn Jove)...
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Categories:
jove, birthday,
Form: Other
Zealous untiring repentance
...Zealous untiring repentance
Fleshed out as poetic confessional.
Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.
I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, your...
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Categories:
jove, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
aching sky
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* A bit of sci-fi what-if?, about a lone man on Ganymede, witnessing the destruction of Io by the natural forces of Jupiter *
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I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
beneath the ...
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Categories:
jove, adventure, analogy, fantasy, science,
Form: Rhyme
SHOWING OFF ON THE SPRINGs ZEPHYR-CREST
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Dawn’s dewdrops form a breathtaking lake
for the sunrise fairy who joys in a swim.
Far from shore, where problems well,
tears rise as fog, ferries in daffodil sun.
For th...
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Categories:
jove, cute love, fairy,
Form: Pantoum
Yonah Ownah of the Eruv!
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Yonah, Ownah of the Eruv!
Geo. Washington has the same birthday,
Like George the Father of our Country,
R’ Ribiat & Baila are blessed by many,
Even TA’s Gabbai “By Jove!”
Truly Baila’s roc...
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Categories:
jove, birthday, friend, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3
Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses
are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?...
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Categories:
jove, angst, desire, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
The Deadline Is Approaching
...My goodness the time's really flying by
Nine o'clock and yet no new poems
Get your bum into gear my dear friend Jack
Morning will soon be broken
Try not getting caught with your pants d...
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Categories:
jove, care,
Form: Rhyme
Once a Pawn a Time Within Castellated Bishopric
...Once a pawn a time within castellated bishopric
We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand t...
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Categories:
jove, appreciation, april, bible, black
Form: Rhyme
Memnon
...Aurora, the beautiful goddess of dawn
Mourned the death of her son now gone.
Memnon, by Achilles's spear, was killed.
His mother’s tears, by the fire, now spilled.
Aurora prayed to Jove in the he...
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Categories:
jove, cry, fire, love, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Poets Choir--A Cento
...O ye dead Poets, who are living still
Within the circuit of this plodding life
For truly this game is well begun
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot
My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so si...
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Categories:
jove, humorous, poets, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Meandering Ode
...Old Bald Frog and a toad named Ander
saw Sally wander down by the road.
Said Frog, "Now Sally, me and Ander
been wondering where you do meander?"
Now, Ander was a three-toed toad,
had four befor...
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Categories:
jove, nursery rhyme,
Form: Ode
Pledge
...May the groom's vows adventure from heart to soul
Forever like restless surges in endless circles roll.
May the bride's vows yoke rivulets to the doting main
With interlinked steps of brass chain....
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Categories:
jove, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Love Rules All, Even Time and Space
...What is sorrow, when the strong hand of love
lifts you up and redeems you from despair;
and saves you, then guides you from up above;
and forgives you with mercies that forbear?
What ...
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Categories:
jove, death, forgiveness, grave, light,
Form: Sonnet
What Would This Scallywag Know
...It was one of those nights that a rapscallion would swoon
our pirate ship glided almost silently by the light of the moon
we were stealthily advancing on a world we did not know
They would experie...
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Categories:
jove, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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