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Athenian Epitaphs
Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...

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Categories: woeful, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form: Epigram



Doggerel Ii
Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...

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Categories: woeful, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canto Xix Hell Translation
Simon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey

For gold and silver adulterate still,
Now it's time that the trumpet sounds...

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Categories: woeful, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: In Story-Tale-in-Form
Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: The Tale of Prince Zag


Note: The tale is six (6) sonnets long, each sonnet has 14 lines, each line contains variable words bearing 10 syllables, nevertheless, this tale bears...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Desperate Hope
Placed First in:
This or That Vol 22 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh                       ...

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Categories: woeful, emotions, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tranmutation
Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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Categories: woeful, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Highborn
CAST:

Prince Zag The Freid: Son of King Othor The Freid, younger brother of Prince Zig The Freid

Duke Mor: Close friend of King Othor and an arbiter between father the king and of his son the...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, allegory, character, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
remembering the time when i was LOST
Forever wondering when I won’t be left behind and upset
Pondering if you’ll ever save me from burying me alive
Wandering in the woods of my spiralling mindset of regret
Squandering my time time after time and I...

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Categories: woeful, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, deep, emotions, endurance,
Form: Lyric
Drained By My Thot Train
Drain away the pain that I feel
Drain away the rain that’s real 
Frozen in fire of your desire
Stay a while longer and admire
The healing rain that drains away the pain,
Nourishing the grains of His fruitful...

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Categories: woeful, angst, anxiety, emotions, endurance, forgiveness, grief, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ringer and the Cleanskin
The True Story

A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a Ringer in North Queensland, Australia. A Ringer is the Queensland...

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Categories: woeful, nature,
Form: Ballad
Mayflower 2017
The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of  angry widows steadily   grow bitter 
The bosoms of weeping mothers  open wide
While the relics of the past kept washing upon our...

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Categories: woeful, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict, environment, immigration, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Beneath The Altar
The fruit juice drips momentarily beneath the alter filling the crevices and corner, while the sound of impatient traffic rolls down the street honking horns and disrupting the peace. A strange sound starts rumbling in...

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Categories: woeful, baptism, caregiving, city, community, drink, missing, money,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Kate and Isobel
*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.

Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of Gwent
And traipse through forest shade
They packed a picnic lunch for...

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Categories: woeful, character, friend, girl, hero, history,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change
 Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Personal Vicissitudes Pronounced Irrepressible Self Loathing
Personal vicissitudes pronounced irrepressible self loathing

Ever since mine late boyhood
when unstoppable coded 
cellular processes did segue
I experienced abhorrence
toward yours truly,
an extremely introverted kid,
whose parents nor siblings
(one younger and older sister) could
not arouse him 

out of...

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Categories: woeful, 12th grade, 2nd grade, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
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: woeful, death, deep, depression, heartbreak, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa naalam kari (K245)

“The teeming earth's vast realm, round which the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, tamil,
Form: Couplet
A Fading Queen
A FADING QUEEN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

She had  all the feminine gifts those many years ago
Drawing stares from everyone where ever she’d  go
Back in high school, she was the center of attraction
In every classroom, she...

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Categories: woeful, analogy, celebrity, cinderella, heartbreak, loneliness, nostalgia, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Ready To Go
People are wandering around the town
With their heads pointing to the clouds
People are wandering about the town
Looking like fearful clowns
Nasty men with hard backs 
Are walking about the park 
Harassing the women in the boiling...

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Categories: woeful, confidence, endurance, england, environment, friendship, journey, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spirits In the Wood
Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, death, earth, fantasy, sin, sound, spiritual, tree,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump Must Be Permanently Lambasted
Donald Trump must be permanently lambasted...
and ewe know what else...
furloughed & barred from Whitehouse

Ducks of former self proclaimed Grand Poobah
getting lined up and goosed as these words typed
after trumpeting January 6th, 2021
as violent insurrection
Mitch Mcconnell...

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Categories: woeful, abuse, america, corruption, destiny, grave, horror, january,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Light of Nativity
Placed 8th in :
No. 1264 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

                   The Light Of Nativity

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Categories: woeful, anniversary, appreciation, christian, christmas, god, heaven, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Keeping It Together
Falling apart is human nature from the start
We cry when we break down with grief in heart 
Don’t walk away, but smile away the yearning of yesterday
Living, in general, is tough and fills me with...

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Categories: woeful, dedication, emotions, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a child

Soothed you were by twinkling stars
In a crib that faced...

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Categories: woeful, anti bullying, art, beauty, death, depression, sad,
Form: Dramatic Verse