Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby
...Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby
the Earl of Yarmouth (William Seymour)
a descendant of very late
(to the power of Google - ha) Jane Seymour,
Henry VIII's third wife...
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Categories:
primogeniture, adventure, anger, depression, england,
Form: Free verse
Television News Reporter
...Cinnabar remittance ailerons squall federal cobblestones. Lank alpine squint modest. Nectarine grimace, cloys toothsome.
Coiffure chain rod composure anemic, primogeniture Swedish cotton murk optics...
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Categories:
primogeniture, cat,
Form: Free verse
Wellborn Woes
...A baron's efforts to hold his wealth
only to have it turn on himself.
His estate slips away like water
so sad his firstborn was a daughter.
Which would have likely prevented her
through the norm...
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Categories:
primogeniture, class, death, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Couplet
Our Native Land
...When this plague passes over
And we emerge from our arks
Let not the euphoria of seeing
The rainbow in the horizon again
Becloud our vision or deafen our ears
To the sound of heavy chariots from...
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Categories:
primogeniture, africa, angst, discrimination, farm,
Form: Free verse
Our Long Time Catered Chef
...Our long time catered chef...
prepared a meal fit for (psst... me) a king
Actually professional cook
(trained since infancy)
long a staple of our family
since... oh way before
my bubba's zayd...
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Categories:
primogeniture, adventure, celebration, father, food,
Form: Free verse
Straw Men
...Where, oh where, is God?
When will the man-child stop asking why,
stop searching for the other, the greater, the bigger
the more glorious presence?
This constant need to see other than oneself...
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Categories:
primogeniture, allusion, planet,
Form: Free verse
Sunglass Envy
...Siphoned light gropes passengers
Hopeful for luminescent hearts,
Arching underneath bombazine drapes
Dusted with passionate legacies
Of original sin and the primogeniture son,
Wicked for nightti...
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Categories:
primogeniture, love, mystery, passion,
Form: Acrostic