Cupid’s Canopy Over Silent Sonnets
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Written: July 06, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Craig Cornish
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My path was unkempt, with cracked and bent signs
The once-azure sky turned gray, and ...
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Categories:
mecum, analogy, poetry,
Form: Verse
Discontinued?
...Eventualities don't apply to me
(I can dream)
no matter their presence
in the mirrors of reality
Always one step ahead
though the shrinking distance
haunts
like an early frost - t...
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Categories:
mecum, life,
Form: Free verse
Future and Past
...The past is a book
of recipes,
a Vade-mecum,
a file that we often
consult in doubt ...
But if so
some if you forge...
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Categories:
mecum, allusion, analogy, future, literature,
Form: Free verse
Wonder
...Habitually, feeling an itch to write,
I’m introspective: sitting at the table
over a blank sheet, cherishing my blight
and rust, I think: “What if I'll not be able
to write a single stanza anymo...
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Categories:
mecum, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Disaster Flirting
...1. They said the meeting point
between your traits and swagger
has dislocated
and your newly acquired awful image
is beyond reversal.
But hey! I do not fall for obscurantism
on your honor, my ...
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Categories:
mecum, abuse, adventure, betrayal, devotion,
Form: Lyric
K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With Commentary
...K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary
(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documen...
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Categories:
mecum, fate, life, nature, people,
Form: Couplet
Rhydisias' Dawn
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Vade mecum, standing afore anticipations threshold; joyous awe
While as beholding this blankets golden bed....
Scented late Autumns leaves which ...
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Categories:
mecum, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Omnia Mea Mecum Porto
...Bias, one of the Seven, take up neither (when the Persians arrived) an arm
such glorious like the Seven for Thebes,
nor a book full of wisdom of now.
No.
There is a talk he said, “Omnia mea mecu...
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Categories:
mecum, philosophy
Form: Free verse