And Murdered in Her Bed
...(Oscar Wilde wrote that long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in 1897, quoted here. In it, a man met his death; for some decades the UK has not had the death penalty.)
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Categories:
leathern, anxiety, death, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse
Schadenfreude
...That wind so wild can cause those wooden limbs
to shake from side to side as though to slap a face.
It is worth watching through your window
feeling the weird warmth within, while witnessing
anot...
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Categories:
leathern, anxiety, bible, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
Genghis Khan
...Ride, ride, ride thou figure from the East
In thy curse hath many a mother wept
On thy brow the furrows of distant steppes
Yield unto a steely mask of doom
Destruction follows in thy path and yet...
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Categories:
leathern, adventure, education, history, writing,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Chinese Scrolls
...Poems from old and yellowed
Chinese scrolls make me sad,
make me sad: stored in shiny,
lacquered boxes of perfumed teak,
they crumble when unrolled.
And the hands that must have written
Chinese...
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Categories:
leathern, allegory, art, imagination, introspection,
Form: Narrative
A Tale From the Dark Side
...I first heard of Detur Sanguin
In tales handed down from old.
A man accursed with unquenchable thirst;
A soul to the devil sold.
He made a pact with a demon,
For a lady’s heart to win.
His lu...
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Categories:
leathern, fantasyson, day, son,
Form: Rhyme