Long Shingle Poems
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Medieval Poems Iv
Medieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
shingle, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
shingle, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
shingle, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
shingle, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Horizon Winkling Cosmos
wobbling
earth
Phoebus
slipover
&
...
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Categories:
shingle, analogy, autumn, creation, inspirational, meaningful,
Form:
Other
The Bling Ring
Dragon put out his shingle to be a psycho-analyst.
He claims he can cure the blues, in one single visit!
Also says he can stop those bent on...
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Categories:
shingle, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness, happy, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Destiny Doth Accompany, Deliver, Inveigle America
Destiny doth accompany, deliver, inveigle America...
Smartly, squarely, summarily into
pall bearing sized hands Helena Handbasket
adorned with Aconite (Monkshood) atop casket
signaling demise, née sealing freedom
(of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness) fate
with eternal bondage super glued gasket.
I...
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Categories:
shingle, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Political Verse
A Visit From Santa Claus
It was Christmas Eve, not a soul made a sound,
And not so much as a mouse could be found,
The children had hung their stockings on the hearth,
As a quiet, peacefulness gently fell upon the Earth,
My...
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Categories:
shingle, christmas, eve, fantasy, holiday, tribute,
Form:
Epic
Myrtle Parker
Myrtle Parker
Myrtle Parker lived on the Riviera,
That’s the English one not the French.
Her favourite tipple is Red Currant Cider,
Only beverage her thirst would quench.
Never did she marry no husband,
Preference for life single and free,
Though kept...
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Categories:
shingle, emotions, sad, social,
Form:
Ballad
Wimpole Street, Part 3 of 7
(In a 19th-century legal judgment studied by all who
learn the English common law, Sturges v. Bridgeman,
the court found in favour of a "nice" doctor over a
"common" manufacturer, for reasons of pure snobbery.)
The Candyman Can’t
Some...
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Categories:
shingle, london,
Form:
Couplet
This House
____________________________________________________
/ ...
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Categories:
shingle, angst,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Changing Perspective
The stretch of water mating with the clear blue sky
at the horizon as the sun bids good bye
shades of crimson hue merging with the blue
a scenery my little eyes...
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Categories:
shingle, childhood, feelings, kiss, love hurts, memory, parents,
Form:
Free verse
Sand Doom
She sunk toes into the soft unsettled sand of the blue waves ashore
Moment by moment was all she could grapple
She took one step forward, as the sand bit each nerve with coolness of the ocean
Moment...
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Categories:
shingle, character, childhood, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
No Roof For Reindeer Shingle File
the celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a court'n, or so the tale iz toad
to a grand ole mansion built around 1910,
...
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Categories:
shingle, 12th grade, fate, grief, howl, loss, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Of Place
The landscape is stunning.
It has a beauty that hits you,
A sharp, slicing beauty,
Ringing like a sword slid from it's sheath.
Beauty that only its beholder can feel,
A sting like a knife...
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Categories:
shingle, places
Form:
I do not know?
Life, Birth and Death
A day by the sea,
You reveal life and death
Happening all at once,
Out of, what seems like, human control,
His control, her control…
Dead birds washed up on the shingle shore.
A baby seal pup amongst the line up...
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Categories:
shingle, animal, death, god, life, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
1996
1996 when any music styles created became instant hits
To much R&B, rock, rap and any other genre that fits
I remember waking up early, to see my mom say hay hun
Well, she thought that but truth...
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Categories:
shingle, adventurelove, i love you,
Form:
Narrative
The Mechanic
The Mechanic
Frank Halliwell
Sam was a gynecologist,
But...
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Categories:
shingle, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunrise On the Living Desert
Streaks of pink 'cross morning skies.
Land shaded lemon; last star dies…
Lightening blue spreads far and wide,
a half red sun. New dawn’s arrived.
This living desert yawns and wakes.
A foreign sparrow flits and takes
what morsel that darkness...
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Categories:
shingle, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
A Visit From Santa Claus - Part 1
It was Christmas Eve, not a soul made a sound,
And not so much as a mouse could be found,
The children had hung their stockings on the hearth,
As a quiet, peacefulness gently fell upon the Earth,
My...
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Categories:
shingle, christmas, eve, fantasy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Dixie Cup Memorial
Dixie Cup Memorial
by Odin Roark
How small it is
this bottom of the Dixie cup
looking skyward
holding high the torch
the...
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Categories:
shingle, war, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Deep Pockets- Casears Share
the play Shout Shingle
is based on a poem by
a well known
celebrity Poet.
it's based in the late twenty first century.
it is the story of a man
who met a woman
who was engaged to his
Orchestra brothers ex wife.
"...
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Categories:
shingle, adventure, appreciation, celebrity, heartbroken, jealousy, music, song,
Form:
Epic
Morning Passes
golden bright light spears into the night
shattering the darkness and breaking into blue
pinpoint bright colors fading away
heralding the dawning of the new day
children’s bright laughter sounds on the lane
girls and boys chasing and running away
too...
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Categories:
shingle, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Home Cooking
We've dined in exclusive eateries as 'round this globe we did roam,
In London, Casablanca, Athens and the lovely city of Rome.
Devouring chateaubriand, nasi goreng, caviar and even eel,
But there's nothing more delectable than a good...
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Categories:
shingle, foodold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Lanternes In Sequence Form
as a sequence
Bella
He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.
The
eyes show
subjection,
melancholy
and
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.
Ekphrasis lanterne after
Head of a Negro by Watteau
THE WIFE
Of
Mahler,
Gropius
Franz Werfel-
filled life with her
song-
she
gave Klimt
her first kiss-
but like a Strauss
waltz
her
affairs
of the heart--
never lasted
long.
LANTERNE...
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Categories:
shingle, poetry,
Form:
Lanterne