Laudator Temporis Acti
...Methinks all antediluvian Love was
Whiter than snows atop higher tors;
And with more troth dudes did kiss
Purer maidens for pleasanter bliss.
I deem Art shortly after Noah’s Ark
To have been o...
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Categories:
pleasanter, abortion, absence, adventure, age,
Form: Epic
Composition
...It’s December. And bold
Blackberry is young. All freeze nothing a poet can do.
What a winter's palette
Spread out of mercy
Ah, holidays! How sharply
Hearts can bite
With color gray and wave
And even...
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Categories:
pleasanter, health, holiday, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
A Change of Season
...Spring, like autumn, brings
Changes to the air;
Cold stil bites one sharply,
But pleasanter and clear.
No regard 'ny more
For chill nipping frost,
Such things come to nothing
'Fore flowe...
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Categories:
pleasanter, hope, nature
Form: Rhyme
Color Me Happy Pink
...If poets were a color
Would all of them be blue?
And wouldn't it be pleasanter
To write in brighter hue?
Some poets might be somber shades
And write in dullest grey.
I choose to be a happy pink
To dr...
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Categories:
pleasanter, poets, write,
Form: Light Verse