The day before I fell in love with you
...I don't remember what I did, it's true,
the day before I fell in love with you.
I guess I might've been attending Shakespeare class
lamenting with Professor Pendergrass
the fate of Juliet Capulet...
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Categories:
montague, 12th grade, first love,
Form: Rhyme
A Light Through Yonder Window
...When last the Angels come to take me home
I'll pause in sheltered memories I leave
and peacefully my mind will surely roam
within the quiet calm that they conceive.
Your lair and guarded threshol...
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Categories:
montague, love,
Form: Sonnet
Montague Middleton
...Montague Middleton’s matronly mother made marvellous munchy meringues
Montague Middleton’s most massive midriff made many a menu mistake
Montague Middleton met many maidens; Mother made mincemeat ...
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Categories:
montague, humor, marriage,
Form: Alliteration
The Mouse with the Hat
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Montague mouse wants to purchase a hat
“Why do you need that,” asked milliner cat
Montague replied, “It’s so that I can marry”
I must wear a nice hat for when I wed Barry”
“Ba...
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Categories:
montague, funny love, silly, wedding,
Form: Couplet
A Tragic Tale, No More
...*Written for an AP contest in which the theme was to write
an alternate ending for a favorite book, poem etc.
Shakespeare's quill gave Romeo and Juliet a tragic ending
but that's a sad ...
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Categories:
montague, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet- An Altered Ending
...Shakespeare's quill gave Romeo and Juliet a tragic ending
but that's a sad love story I think needs a bit of mending.
Yes, he's the Bard, but quite frankly it broke my heart
to learn t...
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Categories:
montague, conflict, love,
Form: Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet-Prologue Too
...ROMEO AND JULIET – PROLOGUE TOO
The Montagues and Capulets never saw eye-to-eye.
A feud so deep, eventually, someone had to die.
At loggerheads for decades (no-one remembered ...
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Categories:
montague, love hurts,
Form: Couplet
A Rose By Any Other Name
...I remember how it made me think when I first heard Juliet exclaim,
after falling in love with Romeo…a Montague…What is in a name?
The different feeling it evokes depending on which name someone i...
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Categories:
montague, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Super Heroes and Whores
...Lonely broken hearts, in stride
Lady Montague ---
She drank to life awaiting death
in runs Majesty's breath
never speaking of where she's been
Hamlet fed up leaves the scene,
as Captain Bla...
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Categories:
montague, poems,
Form: Free verse
Love In Heaven
...There you're my Romeo, finally here
So, away I let my last pearl of tear
In the coffin we held our hands staying near
For my love, death is not to be fear
Eh my love, isn't this place dear?
A ...
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Categories:
montague, death, heaven, i love
Form: Limerick
Soothing Love
...Thank you very much
For having such a heart,
such a blooming heart,
such a bleeding heart,
and guiding and guarding
that child from them,
from that pack of wolves.
A decade ago, it happene...
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Categories:
montague, child, humanity, love,
Form: Free verse
If There Is No Poetry
...If there none to be of poetry
The night would have no stars
to guide love slaves their incentive
to produce yet a simple flint to spark
and swoon pulsating hearts their claim
steads a blank page...
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Categories:
montague, analogy, missing, muse,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet For a Friend
...When last the Angels come to take me home
I'll pause in sheltered memories I leave
and peacefully my mind will surely roam
within the quiet calm that they conceive.
Your lair and guarded threshol...
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Categories:
montague, love,
Form: Sonnet
An Unlively Very Stiff Upper Lip Masquerade
...An Unlively Very Stiff (upper Lip) Masquerade
(any resemblance between averred one laid
to rest and yours truly...purely coincidental
regarding unnamed person liberated
into heavenly glade!)
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Categories:
montague, absence, blue, creation, death
Form: Epic
Naked Sea
...Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931), was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercial...
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Categories:
montague, appreciation, art, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
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