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Melville Poems - Poems about Melville

Premium Member 'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
...“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” – General George Pickett Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze Stood Pickett with his face etched......

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Categories: melville, death, history, slavery, violence,
Form: Ballad
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality
...Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery or any other contemporary dwarf man regarding countless less well known dwarves (that never got a c......

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Categories: melville, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Toothache
...Violate everything. Upset all order. re-stack the cards, deal me to a world where my id rules, rid me of what cares about right, wrong or you. Or it's gonna kill me. I'm Ahab. Says S......

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Categories: melville, crazy, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Melville
...Herman Melville once a cabin boy his fiction/poetry gives such.joy As a customs mn he spent his time writing materpieces in rhyme......

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Categories: melville, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Virtually Connected To Reality Poetic Verses
...Some Pro's and Con's of being Virtually Connected to Reality poetic verses Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery or any other contemporary dwarf man even countless less well known dwarves (that ne......

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Categories: melville, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



What We Value
...At the family Christmas dinner I asked my nephews, all smart and educated lads, about NFT's and cryptocurrency. They agreed that NFT's are just a fad, soon to be worthless, but hedged on bitcoin. So......

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Categories: melville, analogy, appreciation, christmas, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The S S Edmund Fitzgerald
...“Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early” – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Balladeer, from The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald A song by Gordon Lightfoot I ......

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Categories: melville, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pluto
...*Image of Pluto & Solar System provided by Pixabay. Pluto Plain as e'er, my founder's pewt'rish *heart region face Charon, echo coins gauge cross Logging midway regions ......

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Categories: melville, extended metaphor, planet,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Queequeg
...~ In memory of Herman Melville, who lived a similar darkness to my own ~ ~ The day star hisses, Kissing the cold Bering Sea As the sky blush......

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Categories: melville, adventure, mythology, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast
...Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Haw......

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Categories: melville, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Unoriginal Sin
...Did you flavor it with Hemingway, or season it with Thoreau Did you structure it like Eliot, or was Melville more your go The rocks you choose to stand upon, supports to look beyond As yo......

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Categories: melville, sin, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ''Because of Poetry''
..."in placid hours, well-pleased we dream . . . " Herman Melville (1819-1891) poem, Art, First Line __________________ I write of dreams and dreams and of life's fight- Writing to me is l......

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Categories: melville, me, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Pen To Flow
...I’ve forever written as myself Few influences will show Neither Hemingway nor Faulkner Not Melville or Thoreau But as one who saw through all of that With so much ......

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Categories: melville, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Voice On Loan
...Be it Melville or Tolstoy or a Pen still to burn Know the words are just borrowed —until silence returns (Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)......

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Categories: melville, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Some Pros and Cons of Being Virtually Connected To Reality 2nd Byte
...who felt incorporeal storied power of Herman Melville as zen unseen aid instructing hypothetic rich kid to drop out of school before his/her first grade coz of all the money he/she made ......

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Categories: melville, 10th grade, appreciation, computer,
Form: Free verse

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