Lucius Begot Luci
...When Hofmann stumbled across a new synapse,
serotonin underwrote a dopamine contract.
Cuddle or cringe, carnival or calamity,
worlds in one potent punch squared.
Blotter art doesn't pursue galler...
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Categories:
lucius, color, drug, journey, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Roman Headstone
...IN MEMORY OF CENTURION
GAIUS LUCIUS MANIUS
PRIMUS PILUS FIRST COHORT
LEGIO VI VICTRIX
HE SPENT HIS PENSION
IN CISALPINE GAUL
WHERE HE RAN
AN HONEST BROTHEL
HIS FUNERAL WAS GRACED
BY A MU...
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Categories:
lucius, allegory, death, history, morning,
Form: Elegy
Indeed He Wrote
...It was Clark Gable, who posed the question,
“Oh, Mr., Faulkner…do you write?”
Indeed, Mr. Gable, Faulkner wrote…
About that postage stamp of native soil
In many books and stories did his typewrit...
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Categories:
lucius, appreciation, celebrity, film, literature,
Form: Free verse
Part 2: the Mystery of Dreams
...I awoke again from a sound sleep – as
with my previously described experience –
more a sense of spirit rising as opposed to actually
getting out of bed; before me, in the darkness, appeared
an ol...
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Categories:
lucius, dream, faith, mystery, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Proactive Engagement
...As I recall, it was the second of four years of college in a study for the gospel ministry. It was my World History class that was being taught by a very learned instructor who was also the president...
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Categories:
lucius, leadership, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Narrative
Livia Speaks To the People
...Lucius,Livia, Aurelius
Commodus,
Chica de Silva
InPlautus, Meretrix
Drusilla.
Days were they stood proud
speaking of days gone by
talking in laugages few
understood
which Meadows aren't Ca...
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Categories:
lucius, culture, dedication, devotion, film,
Form: Ballad
beautied panther -
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beautied panther, black as night
through the jungle, prancing
my machete longs to bite
dark and sleek
grand mystique
moonbeams bright, entrancing
beautied panther, steely...
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Categories:
lucius, animal, appreciation, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
New Protector of Rome
...In dense forest we stood to face our foe
German tribes defied our mighty empire
Ready we were to strike the final blow
Unleashing hell with arrows, sword, and fire.
Treachery made me a gladiato...
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Categories:
lucius, death, violence, war,
Form: Sonnet
Mark Evanier,S Nite-Ing Gale
...It's allways nice , win sum one hoo cairs is around !
Sirtin lies were toeld . But the cops fynally arrested the real rapest !
& the Mexican boys in the black birrays held the criminal until t...
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Categories:
lucius, america, anti bullying, children,
Form: I do not know?
The Chisel
...Familiarity
Can sometimes be
A chisel
That slowly chips away
At human souls
Stripping first the aura
Then splintering
The shiny, pearly shell
To finally bear
The red, raw meat
That often b...
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Categories:
lucius, friendship, loss,
Form: Free verse
Yolanda of Rome
...i stood over looking
the general view
of the bath of caracalla
evading sudatorium seduction
the church of st. cesarea
in palatio captured my thoughts
rather quickly i entered
sarcphagus of luciu...
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Categories:
lucius, devotion,
Form: Classicism
Lake Notashebun
...I can fish on Lake Notashebun
in September for pike: 'Great Northern.'
Known as 'Esox lucius,'
it's so delicious
breaded and deep fried lakeside; that's heaven....
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Categories:
lucius, food,
Form: Limerick
The Wrong Number
...The Wrong Number
By Elton Camp
On a his 800 call, old Lucius got one digit incorrect
So to an unexpected business his call it did direct
A real person came on, “Darling, how’re you today?”
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Categories:
lucius, funny
Form: Rhyme
March In Rome
...Roman dignity, what has happened to it all?
This month of March has been something to appall.
I cannot believe our esteemed senators
could possibly become murderous conspirators.
The body of our ...
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Categories:
lucius, historybody,
Form: Rhyme
Shoveler Jim
...A shoveler duck is Jim
A duckling afraid to swim
He stands on a log
With Lily The Frog
So everyone laughs at him
Gracie Gull says he is dim
Silly I'm not explains Jim
I have a dislike
For L...
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Categories:
lucius, animals, children, funny,
Form: Limerick
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