A Dust Bowl of Glitter
...A blessed soul has won a role, The Prince of Peace,
Of noble birth, a novice born a blue-blood,
Pontificate average those brevities,
Stemmed full of thorns wrangled beneath his rosebud.
Won The...
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Categories:
medici, conflict, history, military, political,
Form: Rispetto
Some more Questions and Answers Q and A part eight
...Q: Where are the bodies of Mohammad and Buddha and all other gods and
their prophets today?
A: They are in the grave and they never claimed that they were able to rise from
the...
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Categories:
medici, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Clerihew Donatello
...Donatello the greatest sculptor of his day
with his nude he held sway
Keeping close to his patrons,Medici
who settled bills& paid him a fee...
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Categories:
medici, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Giuliano De'Medici
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Brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici
were co-rulers of medieval Florence in Italy.
Giuliano was murdered by a rival family.
The assassins were from the family, Pazzi.
They were Franc...
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Categories:
medici, history, murder,
Form: Rhyme
November Tuesdays
...The narrowing of choice, opaque or black?
Unconfident die castes vote ballot blank,
How has our circus bread become this bland?
What a diverse homogeneous blend,
All stitched to sleeves but less ...
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Categories:
medici, november, political, riddle, satire,
Form: Free verse
To My Love Part 2 Tbc
...How offensive that must’ve felt!
I’m seated after having said this in bewailment like an ox
Not thinking of the grandeur but of her buttocks
Gloriously, as an ambler, I lift the embargo on this th...
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Categories:
medici, life,
Form: Free verse
Well-Worn Path of Shoes
...WELL-WORN PATH OF SHOES
shoes ~ saddle
with gray and blue catholic uniform
dove white ~ easter
sandals dressed in ‘60’s powder blue
sneakers with my uniform
last...
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Categories:
medici, life, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto V
...Here, this day, on this inglorious
Field
Thy vain struggles will count no
Valour.
All hope now abandoned,
Imminent defeat unconcealed;
Erstwhile countenance display
Such waxen, languid pallor...
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Categories:
medici, philosophy, proposal,
Form: Rhyme
Renaissance Unfulfilled
...RENAISSANCE UNFULFILLED
Glorious! Glorious! Renaissance
Brought humanity to new heights
Of unbounded creative power,
Look at Florence's splendor
Experience its Medici majesty
Inhale its ineb...
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Categories:
medici, voice,
Form: Blank verse
Boticelli
...Botticelli-the pot-bellied artist
For the Medici family was a great activist.
His paintings rose him high.
For his Venus you know why.
He's been claimed such a great artist!
Dorian P...
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Categories:
medici, art, funny,
Form: Limerick
The Medicis Rose
...I wandered, lost in the labyrinth of love
The right bank of the seine sang so clearly
That I was for sure walking with nothing Left
Nothing on the left at all
The northern vaults of gold
Meaningless ...
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Categories:
medici, dark, garden, love,
Form: Light Verse
The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Oh bloody and evil Catherine de Medici.
The queen has acted impetuously.
Thousands have died because of her demands.
Witness her red bloodstained hands.
A wedding is a time of joy and jubil...
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Categories:
medici, history, death, death, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Florence (Oh Great Medici)
...Autumn sunlight falls.
On golden domes, sweet Arno-
Shimmers like pure gold....
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Categories:
medici, places
Form: Haiku
Tu
...tu vedes mihi se voles et in loci que voles, ego sum diversus-
scribo versum,
entro spaci Mnemosiae,-
rosae
sunt in verbi, dolori et desideri,
et verae
sunt gratitudinae
da cordi a medici Hos...
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Categories:
medici, nature,
Form: ABC