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A Garfield's Christmas
What would this fat lazy house cat ask for Christmas you might ask?
No squeaking cat toys oh no, forget those cat nipped laced
Mice’s too, for it’s a Garfield Christmas my friend and only natures
Perfect creation...
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time honored, cat, celebration, christmas, holiday, imagery, imagination, international,
Form:
Free verse
Hey, Handsome...
My heart is empty, Jeffrey.
I’m standing here transfixed
within the threshold
of a vacant bedroom.
The air is still
but the delicate scent
of your passing soul
invades my nostrils.
The aroma travels deep
inside the tunnels...
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Categories:
time honored, lossme, language, language, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2
Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial'
translation by Michael R. Burch
1.
Through many lands and over many seas
I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites,
to this final acclamation of the dead...
and to speak — however ineffectually...
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Categories:
time honored, brother, death, death of a friend, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgins;
nor can my mind, so consumed by malaise,
partake of the Muses' mete fruit;
for...
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Categories:
time honored, brother, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Free verse
The World We Live In: Convenience, Expedience, Certain Things Are Hardly Slow Cooked Anymore
#QUICK! FAST! CAN YOU HURRY!
DON'T WORRY!
BECAUSE, WHATEVER YOU MISSED...
THERE'S THIS...AND THIS....AND THIS...
AND THAT...AND THAT...AND THAT....
IN THE PROCESS, YOU MIGHT DROP MY HAND,
BUT GOD FORBID YOU DROP YOUR PHONE...
THOSE *TONES* WE OWN, WHERE I'VE...
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Categories:
time honored, deep, encouraging, inspirational, inspirational love, perspective, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
How To Get a Dame
The time has come to inform my boy
and pass along the flame.
The secret of a mystery solved
on how to get a dame.
'Your looks are key as...
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Categories:
time honored, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Human Campfire Legacy
" Human Campfire Legacy ... "
( Gen. 2: 4 / Gen. 3: 24 / Ex. 13: 21 )
( Ex. 3: 2 / Rev. 22: 5, 6 )
All & Every Family of Man
Must Have Gathered Around...
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Categories:
time honored, allegory, family, fire, history, life, metaphor, spiritual,
Form:
Light Verse
Parallel Universe
Two pools lie in Druid Hill Park.
One for the white skinned, the other for the dark.
A high bed of grass grows were ebony feet splashed and kicked and paddled.
Each blade of grass is a soul,...
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Categories:
time honored, appreciation, humanity, race, time, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Altered Tradition
Our Christmas plans are finalized…this year we will celebrate…
our Christmas not on Christmas…but December 28.
Our family has some Christmas traditions that when we blended together we created…
The first is we chose Christmas Eve as the...
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Categories:
time honored, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Of People and Things That Hurt Parishes
You will begin to see yourself as spiritual support for all the
Good work being done
Through your parish if you can stay away from the following:
Negativity: Negativity usually starts with a few disgruntled
people who complain...
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Categories:
time honored, christian, devotion, faith, god, religion, religious, spiritual,
Form:
List
Tunnel of Understanding -- and Love
The time had arrived to dig my tunnel.
My vision was full now, full and complete.
I knew what to strive for, knew where to reach:
I'd dig a tunnel to Understanding, a vision sweet,
A Tunnel where Friends...
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Categories:
time honored, friendship, love, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
Shift
Shift
Go Ahead: say it
I was struggling, drowning
in my conscious certainty
...
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Categories:
time honored, summer, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Wednesday Pie
Wednesday Pie
Wednesday shows up on the calendar again;
Before the end of school a truck comes to a screeching halt
At the curb, through snow and rain,
Belching out of open side doors a stack of weekly newspapers...
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Categories:
time honored, family, food, memory, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
In Reality
In Reality
Why do we presume such things
As the roles people must play
And that from commoners to kings
We must all behave in a certain way
That heroes are fearless is a tale
An image trying to make them...
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Categories:
time honored, life
Form:
Quatrain
Talking About Something Special
share you thoughts
share your love
share your dreams
and tell me what causes you to love me
so we might have those endearing tomorrows
those nights that comes from those
days were we appreciate all the things
that we feel...
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Categories:
time honored, film, music,
Form:
Ballad
In Honor of Milt
Love Conquers All – by L Milton Hankins
If asked to repeat a time-honored passage
I would say it is that “Love Conquers All,”
For, whatever the situation, it is the message
If asked to...
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Categories:
time honored, poets, tribute,
Form:
Other
In Honor of Milt
Love Conquers All – by L Milton Hankins
If asked to repeat a time-honored passage
I would say it is that “Love Conquers All,”
For, whatever the situation, it is the message
If asked to...
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Categories:
time honored, poets, tribute,
Form:
Other
Rudolph the Brown Nosed Reindeer
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the stable,
Not a reindeer was stirring upsetting Old Santa's timetable!
Sitting on their haunches were Donner, Comet, Cupid and Prancer,
And joining them in a snit were Dasher,...
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Categories:
time honored, christmas, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Mcguffey's Eclectic Reader
I came across an old McGuffey's Reader the other day.
Let me endeavor to tell you about it if I may.
Seems in days of yore, educational aims were more sublime.
Political correctness had yet to reach its...
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Categories:
time honored, education
Form:
Rhyme
By the tree
There I stood where the smell of ancient oaken trees ran cleanly clear through the time honored wood only to be hung there lithely clinging unto the very breath we could not do anything but...
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Categories:
time honored, absence, adventure, angel, animal, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
The Stage
The Stage
We are often alone when we write.
We use ink, or blood, depending.
The color often defining the mood.
A quill, a feather a plume,
a sharp PIN indeed, to prick…the imagination.
8.5 x 11...
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Categories:
time honored, 12th grade, allah, anxiety, atheist, cinderella, dark,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Scribe
his tired eyes yet sparkled with the love of his craft
a love steeped in awe and fear of its impact
the hunched shoulders hovered o'er each stroke of his pen
a quill dipped in an inkwell lined...
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Categories:
time honored, grandfather, grandson, love, words, work, writing,
Form:
Verse
Hope Never Rests
While looking for a bridge
to cross over tonight
Connecting time honored values
to internet blight
I thought and I pondered,
as I surfed on the net
But the things that it offers
are...
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Categories:
time honored, children,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rose
The Rose
For twenty-one decades harsh
Her bush begat just thorn;
Bereft of fragrant petal sweet
her time-honored adorn.
She came with hope, dignified;
amid pomp and revelry.
Righteous sons, absent long;
leave her bare for all to see.
Unable to further bear the
grim...
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Categories:
time honored, religion, love, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Halloween Night
Halloween night is supposed to be scary
Peopled by spooks and goblins, most of them hairy
But where I come from it's quite festive and merry
...
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Categories:
time honored, halloween, night, scary,
Form:
Rhyme