Tears Of Parrots
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Echoes of wandering cares, mask;
True ego of expectant filming time,
Peeping to view wonder's raw face...
Maybe or not it could actuate light
Tears aspire to laugh over or embrace.
Pray...
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Categories:
lordships, art, change, cry, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Rhyming Poem - Part I
...The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who gr...
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Categories:
lordships, england, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part Ii
...The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who grant...
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Categories:
lordships, england, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Thirty-Two
...from island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
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Categories:
lordships, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
Winter Awakens My Care
...Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs a...
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Categories:
lordships, angst, england, joy, sorrow,
Form: Couplet
Mystical Creature--
... Exist in heaven, or the spirit realm,
Which is a level of existence
Higher than the physical universe. ...
God created the angels through Jesus,
“The firstborn of all creation.”....
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Categories:
lordships, analogy, angel, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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 ...
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Categories:
lordships, london,
Form: Couplet
Nepotism's Only Kin Deep
...Chip off the old block;
It runs in the family.
This all needs to stop
In our meritocracy.
Titles through ages;
A generation’s game.
Lordships by bloodline,
Some thing...
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Categories:
lordships, anger, career, city, class,
Form: Verse
Thy Divine Mercy
...Thou art merciful
in so that you doust
the flames of loathsome torment
that grows in thy heart
Being this said be mine
be mine and we will dispel
winters veiling gaze of discontentment
we are ...
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Categories:
lordships, art, death, devotion, hope,
Form: Free verse