The Lotus Eaters
...Those over 50's holidays
that they advertise on TV
must really do people a power of good,
at least that's how it seems to me.
Their smiles are all truly dazzling,
soft-focus smooth is their skin...
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Categories:
moritz, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Posh English Gent
...‘Oh I say isn’t this spiffing or what?’
says Jeremy taking the horse for a trot.
It will be pheasant for dinner which the butler will sort
followed by Havana cigars and a nice drop of port
in the...
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Categories:
moritz, class,
Form: Rhyme
How It Strikes a Contemporary
...(On 28 June 1914, in the Balkan town of Sarajevo,
an attempt to assassinate a royal Austrian duke
failed miserably ... or did it? Gabriel Princips, one
of the plotters, stopped for a coffee and b...
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Categories:
moritz, history,
Form: Blank verse
Un-Revelling Rivalry
...Un-revelling Rivalry
Who am I to speak of historical rivalry I cannot contest
all the clever myriad truths conjectures and refutations
about the two masters the two foes with huge presence
when...
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Categories:
moritz, art,
Form: Narrative