Polish Limerick-And Then Some
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There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
'twas the dumbest blonde I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
but wound up in Moscow
holding a kielbasa in each paw.
This dumb blonde headed ...
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Categories:
krakow, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Never Forget
...From Poland hailed your Uncle Max, who in matters of manners was a bit lax,
While from France came Aunt Belle, whom I thought was really quite swell.
Next up from Russia was Cousin Boris, whom I al...
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Categories:
krakow, death, family, memorial, world
Form: Rhyme
So Europe Took Their Human Ash Within
...In Bedzin and in Krakow they breathed in
What they denied in conscious thought or word.
The ashes of the Jews, the shades of skin
Penetrating lungs so deep within
The dead unburied mixed, in a...
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Categories:
krakow, absence, allusion, holocaust, murder,
Form: Villanelle
Career Path
...A career path
The fireplace is full of ash and cold spring is here
walls full of sooth time to either get someone to clean
or paint the room.
A cleaner came she refused to clean the wall, a ...
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Categories:
krakow, career,
Form: Blank verse
Eastern Orthodox Coasters
...single malt sanity, sanitized, ionized,
with a little communion salt.
sprinkle replace, sprinkle to taste,
sprinkle with haste to the holy face.
yet still ground balsa wood icons
perf...
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Categories:
krakow, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
Eric Philbrook Kelly
...The American Scholar,
professor of English at Dartmouth College.
Books for children
were your domain.
From “The Trumpeter of Krakow”
I learnt the second part of the legend.
“The Golden Star ...
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Categories:
krakow, tribute,
Form: Verse
Bricabrac
...Bricabrac. Old and sick in Krakow, Czeslaw complained of his to a fellow (Irish) Nobelista. My fate too (though I am not a poet, I think, and so do I deserve it?)? Like alphabet soup. Lots of letters...
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Categories:
krakow, anxiety, soccer,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hear
...Bozhidar Pangelov&Vania Konstantinova/In Memoriam/
Under the Coat of Arms
In Malta, in the ancient walls
is beating the sea so salty.
Somewhere behind,
distant,
hidden
are shining through...
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Categories:
krakow, death, death of a
Form: Bio
Let Us Go Now
...I will go now to Krakow
To the streets of the free
To the place where we sat
In the summer of oh three
Where i stole my first kiss
And you took part of me...
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Categories:
krakow, lost love,
Form: Light Verse
Polish Limerick
...There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
She was the dumbest I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
But wound up in Moscow
Holding a kielbasa in each paw.
Who says a limerick has to be Irish?...
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Categories:
krakow, funny
Form: Limerick
With All the Homesickness of the Foreigner
...Vania Konstantinova was born, lives and works in Sofia. She graduated Classical Ballet in
her native town and in Petersburg as well as Polish Philology in Sofia University and
Jagiellonian Universi...
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Categories:
krakow, love, autumn,
Form: Free verse