The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part one
...Literary and Cultural Terms
Masnavi (also Mathnawi): A classical Persian poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets with a continuous narrative. The most famous example is Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'nav...
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Categories:
ney, cute love,
Form: Prose
Interlude
...Napoleon the Second died today,
albeit back in eighteen thirty-two.
He had no truck with men like Soult or Ney,
but died too young to form a proper hue.
Would he have thrown a million lives away...
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Categories:
ney, history,
Form: Quintain (English)
Categories:
ney, animal,
Form: Free verse
superbowl
...It’s a chill and rainy Saturday night in New Haven - it’s Superbowl eve! My roommates Leong, Anna and Lisa and I were playing a game of Upwards - it’s a scrabble-like word game and we’re all strangel...
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Categories:
ney, fun, humor, night, school,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
ney, november,
Form: Shape
Winter Night a Blessed Night a Christmas Day
...Winter night, a blessed night.
Chim..ney bill..ow..ing pale white.
Milk and cookies on the hearth
Waiting, Santa Claus festive loud mirth.
Gifts left under the tree.
Full and merry was he.
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Categories:
ney, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Those Who Conspire Shall Expire
...For those who Seek China's Hand,
For those whom China seek thy sand,
For those who gladly lay with this Communist Swine,
For those who shook, danced and dine,
'We are Coming for you!'
Be you s...
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Categories:
ney, america, inspirational, military, political,
Form: Political Verse
We Need Rough Men We Need Tough Men
...Sleep O’Sleep we all must be,
Tucked ourselves between pillows comfy,
While Rough men fought and sacrificed bled,
That’s what the Great Winston Churchill said,
All is talk and talk with words,
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Categories:
ney, inspirational, international, military, peace,
Form: Quatrain
The Paranoia
...Deep within the world so modern,
Lies a hidden road not trodden,
That states the obvious truth be told,
Printed in ink black and bold,
That lost in worlds of ecstasy,
Trapped in snares of mise...
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Categories:
ney, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Tittle - Tattle
...Meena can drive Corona,
whispered Tina to Nina.
Is she a doctor?
How could she master?
Ney dear, it is Corolla....
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Categories:
ney, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
ney, conflict, courage, fantasy, hero,
Form: Concrete
Premises of Lies
...Reason you give, rings unsound,
Beyond logic, and no longer valid,
Premises of lies, conclusions rogue,
Arguments and fallacies, just full of lies.
Think you I be deceived, and love you again...
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Categories:
ney, angst, crazy, divorce, fate,
Form: Dramatic Verse
In My Mothers Eyes
...Thym tiss the Moon-light,
Shawn on me, & a glimpse of
The Sun, in my Mind...
What was this Idea, Lost On Me...
Fore, every tear, it seems,
Ney it twas what I Lost,
But how it seemed always lost...
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Categories:
ney, mom,
Form: Blank verse
Categories:
ney, cool,
Form: Concrete
Thee A-Sunder
...Thus wilting becomes of me, the star so constant, yet so lonely,
Was tiss the hight yet to be reached, what is our limit?
Thy'est thunder reaps my soul for what it sews...
What tiss thee end?
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Categories:
ney, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
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