Lordships Poems


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

Premium MemberThirty-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


Premium MemberMystical 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
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