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Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon 

Elocution lessons for the morality police 
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique 
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak 

Ageless reckonings that are born...

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Categories: elegiac, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan

(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegiac, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
the scent of soil and...

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Categories: elegiac, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Ashurah
(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and his family and friends at the hands of fake hypocritical...

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Categories: elegiac, history, islamic, remembrance day, sad,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Translation of David Broza's Ay Amor Que Seria De Mi, Lyrics By E N Glass
Translation of David Broza's " ! Ay Amor ! Que seria de mi ! " by T. Wignesan

( I'm not certain if this' s the original title of the lyrics composed by Eitan Nahmias GLASS....

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegiac, anxiety, break up, heartbreak, sad love, song,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



Premium Member Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy...

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Categories: elegiac, death, deep, depression, heartbreak, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Fifty Shades of Death
When nights are dark you’ll never see
the depths of our humanity,
but in the light of desert days
the shades of death will quite amaze.

So if you’ve time to take the trouble
sift just once through wreck and...

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Categories: elegiac, conflict, death, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Esme Teresa and Elle Norma: A Lament of Light
At twenty weeks      they saw the light—  
two daughters  Esme Teresa and Elle Norma    
          ...

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Categories: elegiac, child, daughter, granddaughter, hope, love, memory, sorrow,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Impetuous Will

Headstrong, with an ageless broken heart,
I erased the memories of childhood,
And painted them back in frail colors, blushing pinks,
Pastels like jewels fading from my trembling fingers,
Imagining a dream where there had only been fantasies,
Brilliant fantasies...

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Categories: elegiac, appreciation, god, gospel, jesus, pride, sin, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shooting Star

“Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail.” - Erica Orloff, Illuminated

Stars doubt the night
Will the moon be...

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Categories: elegiac, appreciation, inspiration, poetry, rain, star, stars, surreal,
Form: Free verse
The Hen House
Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue 
disgruntlement fed as peevish...

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Categories: elegiac, care, class, environment, farewell, grave, nostalgia, retirement,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Ideally Primed To Write
...Ideally Primed To Write...

Fallow wing on figurative
     awk kill lees heal
of: "My on call (Uncle)
     Muse Never Sleeps"-
     which hoop fully

  ...

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Categories: elegiac, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Return To Excellence -Revised
~names allured ere call of wind _conferred again to Alls’ begin~
~meandering souls ebb tides of sea _ so shall marrows forever be~

We hark unto ye trumpets, O elephants_ tis proclaimed magnificence_
As Ye Bellow of Life’s...

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Categories: elegiac, eulogy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
If You Can'T Comment On My Poetries, Can'T You At Least Deign To Comet On Them
Scribal notions these, and oh so sorrowful,
But, despite their seeming poignance they are not additionally puissant, no. 
I have seem them, wrapped in warmed and moist leaves:
No, not the leaves as pages of books, as...

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Categories: elegiac, adventure, africa, allusion, analogy, appreciation, assonance, bible,
Form: I do not know?
When No Means Nothing
…
Throughout my life, the same phrase has been repeated to me- “no means no.”
The concept of refusing an action you’re uncomfortable abetted me towards hope; growing up, distraught was brought upon me due to my...

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© Reya Suri  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegiac, abuse, child abuse, depression, discrimination, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Breaking News- Rip Aka
Police sources in Durban have confirmed Rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes was shot dead in a drive-by shooting spree on Florida Road, on Friday Night. Another person believed to be AKA's  bodyguard, was also wounded,...

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Categories: elegiac, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
What a Real Friend Tells His Friend
THEY MAKE STRANGE YOUR EXISTENCE THAT OTHERS MIGHT FIND IN DISPUTE WHAT YOU CLAIM TO BE.
THEY SOIL YOUR DOINGS WITH YOUR LOVER MIGHT HER UNDERSTUDY HAVE ACCESS TO HER
THAN WHY DOES HE STALK ME, AND...

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Categories: elegiac, appreciation, encouraging, humanity, meaningful, song, sound, spoken
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Burnel Or Brunellus the Ass
If two heads are better than one
How much better is three.
For the time has come 
When Translators cannot agree.

Nigel wrote the words in Latin script
And much time has passed 
With many Learned Ones pen’s dipt
In...

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Categories: elegiac, animal, political,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sliding delicately into the shimmering ashes of forgotten dreams
Sliding delicately into the shimmering ashes of forgotten dreams,
The target of vanilla tears tracing the contours of lost time,
Your once steady body lit candles for wanderers in the darkest nights,
And now your night is darker...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegiac, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Framing Godless Humble Ideology
Atheistic beneficent credo,
dogmatically evokes fundamental
gnostic humanistic invocations,
joyously kickstarting literary

métier, native oeuvre
pulsating quintessentially,
rudimentary schema
traversing utilitarian vectors,
winsomely xing yore zen.
*     *     *     *  ...

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Categories: elegiac, 11th grade, 12th grade, meaningful, mirror, perspective,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Old Man Winter Gives a One Two Punch
overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
     would make laughingstock of forecasting
     how Jack Frost...

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Categories: elegiac, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, courage, dedication,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Well Runs Dry
Couched in the
     concept of a well,
     (which supplied the water
     for faded glory of "Glen Elm),"
     my boyhood...

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Categories: elegiac, 10th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, drink,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Ascent and Descent
We have a tendency to focus on our flaws, despite it being what makes us human; what we despise is what one desires, and what we desire is what someone despises.
I felt this way for...

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© Reya Suri  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegiac, angst, art, body, depression, how i feel,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Myghtance Euphonium Scroll
when  Jove heard of the happens in Ethicia
he summoned Neptune, who bought
Cupid and Bacchus to stand before him
and speak of what they saw in Ethica.
Bacchus wish to speak last due to the
 fact that...

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Categories: elegiac, adventure, betrayal, leadership, lust, meaningful, music, myth,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Embarkation Upon Meditation
Embarkation upon meditation...

Believe me you upon manifestation
regarding Das godaddy bing linkedin
with avast cosmic consciousness
self induced light hypnotic trance
I become enthralled

unless wife disrupts intent concentration
calling out "Matt...Matt...Matt"
bajillion times Googleplex
(slight hyperbole for literary effect),
subsequently courtesy

disembodied voices
deliver poetic...

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Categories: elegiac, 11th grade, 12th grade, atheist, health, husband,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

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