Long Coronations Poems

A combination of Prose and Free Verse:

The most thrilling and inspirational piece of music ever to reach my 
ears is, without doubt, Handel's Messiah. I've never known anyone 
who could experience a performance and remain...

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I was a public relations specialist, ever promoting positivity to people,
As positivity is promoted afar, by the sight of the towering cathedral.

My work was very interesting, there weren't ever two days the same,
As an exotic...

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June fever rises, rolls on the tide of Spring
Kaleidoscopic landscape overtaken flows
Sunlight reveals colors tranquil undergrowth
Imagination grows, open to interpretation
Streaming quietly downstream in morning meanderings 
Fills up with joy, calendars engagements, holidays at play
Flowers along...

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June fever rises, rolls on the tide of Spring
Kaleidoscopic landscape overtaken flows
Sunlight reveals colors tranquil undergrowth
Imagination grows, open to interpretation
Streaming quietly downstream in morning meandering 
Fills up with joy, calendars engagements, holidays at play
Flowers along...

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Oh, pencil pusher,
your meager ambitions are few
Looking across the human prairie 
what do you office see?
Your cubicle is left of center,
on the low rung of the corporate ladder
Middle management is not your destiny,
mornings are your...

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The British royal family is front and center this weekend. How unusual is that?

The empire may be gone, but it’s time to recall its ghost, dust it off and invoke the ancient spell of monarchy.

A...

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Dearest Prof –
I did not title them:
These ever-ready logs
Ready to assemble ants of cowries;
They dance from sea to land
Wishing to be titled by exigent gods
Who watch over their lonely coronations
Lavished with sacrificial songs!

I did not...

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I wanted to plant flowers at your grave,
and you so loved roses and carnations;
now, their beauty dances-  sways in a wave,
roses stand at your grave as guardians.

Charming clusters of carnations enchant,
graceful jewel-toned roses so...

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I watched King Charles’ coronation this morning.
I’m not British and some things confused me.
For instance, they kept saying “The new king.”
New? The guy’s a boomer - at least - right?

Apparently, he is, at once, the...

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She is a beauty with her vaulted ceilings and cloisters.
Has been parading about for over a thousand years 
Showing off her English gothic architecture. 
Cathedral Church of St. Peter and the Holy and Invisible Trinity.

We...

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“My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire....”

Dramatica; expect the worst and hope for the best is what some say!?

In life and breath and love and...

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“My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire....”

Dramatica; expect the worst and hope for the best is what some say!?

In life and breath and love and...

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My soul is among lions
I lie among the sons of 
Men who are set on fire.” 
Dramatica; expect the worst 
And hope for the best 
Is what some say ? 
In life and breath and...

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My soul is among lions
I lie among the sons of 
Men who are set on fire.” 
Dramatica; expect the worst 
And hope for the best 
Is what some say ? 
In life and breath and...

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Parisians looked upon it with sadness and awe.
There was plenty of disbelief with what they saw.
Notre Dame de Paris in the heart of the city
was going up in flames!  What a pity!

The great church...

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