Dead Poets Choir--A Cento
...O ye dead Poets, who are living still
Within the circuit of this plodding life
For truly this game is well begun
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot
My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so si...
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Categories:
miasmal, humorous, poets, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
The Ghoul Aside My Bed
...There are meanderings who itch and creep
To fill my night with dread.
There are cataclysms where I cringe and cower
That are better left unsaid
And there's an apparition to slake my very ...
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Categories:
miasmal, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Her Lingering Grace
...No finer beauty as hers had charm’d a dream,
Nor a touch thus heavenly more,
And so bound was he to languish upon time
The loveliness of Lenore.
O’ the depths of sorrow crept unto his heart,
As ...
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Categories:
miasmal, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Naked Death
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Naked death
…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
the faux pas relief
from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt...
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Categories:
miasmal, bereavement, death, grief, hate,
Form: Elegy
Highfalutin Pollutants
...The cloudless sky scarred with contrails
Like cicatrices on a slaves
Backside from numerous lashings.
Back and forth, this way and that way
Flying bombs travel overhead
Leaving in their wake,...
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Categories:
miasmal, health
Form: Haiku