Evolutionary Letter Number Twenty Six
...Cantos Uno Obsessive Eclipse Octavia
Israel is like a mote on mankind’s face
Born on May 14 1948 ,
A host of problems a bloody disgrace
I see two eclipses to change it’s fate,
A lunar eclip...
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Categories:
octavia, political,
Form: Canzone
Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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Categories:
octavia, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Ghosts From the Well
...Premiered at The Empatheater, Kenosha, WI – 11/4/1991
ACT 1
A Will of Its Own
Autumn’s Blessing
Lejna Tasha Belle
All the Way Home
Nativity Window
Marley Plays the Bottom Line
Sideman’s S...
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Categories:
octavia, allegory, music,
Form: List
Octavia - a Haunting
...What’s left of Octavia glides down the hall
Past the portraits she painted in life,
Now framed in mahogany, rosewood, and oak,
And they’re hers for the haunting tonight.
She looks for the canva...
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Categories:
octavia, allegory, art, gothic,
Form: Lyric
Heart of the Poet
...Helen Keller who amidst deafness and blindness,
Had turned poet, writer, and lady of kindness…
Peter Winkler, who, though, arthritis affected,
Wrote and left his soul, never to feel dejected…
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Categories:
octavia, adventure, life,
Form: Couplet
Every Life, An Inimitable Story
...Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself ~ Octavia E. Butler
Every life is an inimitable story ...
My life is a story, yo...
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Categories:
octavia, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Milk Carton Crying
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My poor vocabulary babies
are gon missing
Tell me kind sir, have you seen them?
Us etymological mothers to
lingual children of lost former meaning,
we are milk carton crying
Man...
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Categories:
octavia, grief, metaphor, sad, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Thing Is
...My thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.
Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation ...
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Categories:
octavia, color, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Timely Universes
...The Universe is the only self-referential reality
in the phenomenal world.
It is the only text
without context.
Thomas Berry
And yet
could no the same
be said of time
as text
without spati...
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Categories:
octavia, integrity, peace, philosophy, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Characterisation of An Ape Field
...An ape field is characterized by the numbers of bananas who climb with care through long grass. Much is the secretions of melons attempting a tango. Whilst lemons lie down on billiard tables. In boar...
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Categories:
octavia, absence, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Letter To Eden
...My deplorable emotional collapse.
Lucky for me, she happened to be in her many hour siestas!
My dear sister amelie came over (previously arranged to pick up some rocks that z mama rolled in a pile...
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Categories:
octavia, angel, beautiful, caregiving, child,
Form: Narrative
Lament of the Literature In English Gre Subject Test-Taker
...As Sol arises, greets the morn
the soon test taker wails,
"I'm doomed! If I had only read
The Canterbury Tales!
Or more of Samuel Collerige,
or Wordsworth, Yeats or Shelley,
More Medieval or ...
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Categories:
octavia, education
Form: Rhyme