Latter-Day Don Quixote
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When and how
did we see chivalry last
or is it now
a thing of the past
and honour among thieves
is no honour at all
while beating my brains
against the wall
besting the dragons
at ...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, character, emotions, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
THAT STRANDED GALLEON
...A cool September day
We came to La Magdalena of Santander
Next to the Beach of Sardinero
To see the penguins and the seals
And the galleons "Ana de Ayala"
The "Cantabria" and the "Quitus Amazona...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Lorca Translations Iii
...Lorca Translations III
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War and his body was never found.
Pais...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, bird, dark, death, light,
Form: Free verse
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
...Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a charact...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Horse
...(Fighting windmills is the story.)
A fantasy to escape the fall, the void of all
Reality is not that tall when on the horse
Stories plunge the young into the light
Truth stabs the heart once in...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, adventure, character, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Speaking With Your Ink Not a Blot
...The mind indeed is a wondrous thing
it has so much fully retained within
therefrom schooling years to old age
but no matter what it's tainted with sin
Only God can deal with such a state
His j...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, muse, voice, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
...Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under th...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, mentor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
A Quill
..."Scratch, Quills of God". Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rhymes scream like cats and wriggle out of
my arms. Words hide and sick. The stanza’s end
comes to dead-end… Oh, devilish standoff...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
...Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their own last
dro...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, creation, england, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Epigram
To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Don Quichotte
...To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : A Don Quichotte
(Poem written in March 1861 that I would Verlaine had
dedicated to the Grand Dear Old Man of Letters : Miguel de Cerv...
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Categories:
miguel de cervantes, fantasy, poets,
Form: Sonnet