Pace lone the plume prime of a horse
...Pace be the plume prime of a horse,
Austere man’s leanness, girl’s shyness,
Brahmin’s knowledge, king’s forgiveness,
Valour, whose arms be the sole force.
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Categories:
leanness, courage, girl, horse,
Form: Quatrain
Cake Is
...Cake is the thing which betters ~
The leanness of my soul ~
And frosts ornate the naked plate ~
And pleases one ~ and all ~
And sweetest ~ is the bite ~ that's warm
A sinful sugared slice ~
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Categories:
leanness, appreciation, sweet, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Never Mind
...white hair came with wrinkles
leanness, paleness and a bend-
time…. don't touch my mind.
Honorable Mention in STRAND SELECT N,any form ,any theme Poetry Contest sponsore...
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Categories:
leanness, age, time,
Form: Senryu
Softened Rock
......You make the soil soft
with showers, blessing
sprouting vegetation. (Ps 65:10)
What can cool my tongue
in drought but dew,
my flesh but rain?
I've longed for a fruitful heart...
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Categories:
leanness, christian,
Form: Free verse
Truth Be Told
...Truth, be told
On an old fashion gramophone, they played sweet
music in a small cove made for two, the young man
smiled this sleek woman was to become his bride.
A big seal came on to shore dr...
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Categories:
leanness, absence, abuse, celebrity, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Come Down
...Come down to me I'm really begging
I know, my power's not enough
And Faust's Guest as Fiend was faking
his own suggesting life and love.
I do not like, there's no believing
I am so shy for own...
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Categories:
leanness, allegory, emotions, evil, feelings,
Form: Lyric
The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Soupe Du Soir
...The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir
To J.-K. Huysmans
(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary r...
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Categories:
leanness, poverty, stress,
Form: Elegy
The Eyes of the Blind
...THE EYES OF THE BLIND
It appears hope is rising somewhere today
It seems a new dawn of opportunities has arrived,
But truly it is all tantalizing mirage and allusion.
Everyone seems to believe their...
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Categories:
leanness, corruption,
Form: Free verse