Adina Augusta Purcell
...Can words truly capture the essence of the lady on the hill
Whose womb bore eight but yet-
Has mothered countless others?
Whose hands dug deep to till the soil; to stretch outwards to care, to sha...
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Categories:
purcell, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Purcell
...Henry Purcell luminary of his age
writing music for the stage
With opera,anthems&odes
his great versatility glowed...
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Categories:
purcell, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Remission-Hummingbirds and Thyme
...Remission
The living soft redwoods rose up into the furthest skies
Rough dark brown and grey pines stood like warriors nearby
The roads are always wrapped in blue and gray mist
as ...
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Categories:
purcell, happiness, health, life,
Form: Rhyme
Edna Purcell 1912-1930
...Edna Purcell
1912-1930
Dying a virgin was the least of my regrets.
Dying a chaste woman at 18 seemed a moot point.
I remember watching my momma die.
It was in summer, and I was 16.
Hopelessly...
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Categories:
purcell, death,
Form: Epitaph
Ekphrasis Poetic Princesses A
...anne finch
chaste and tender were her words
in a Purcell piece,now are heard
elizabeth barret-browning
twin souls was her song
with Robert close,
heart to heart,all the day long
adelaide c...
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Categories:
purcell, on writing and words
Form: Ekphrasis
My Grandma Is Gone
...Why did she have to go away
Why did she leave all of us
I wish she was here so we can stop crying
She was the best grandma that anyone can have
when my cousins and I was young when she would ...
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Categories:
purcell, death, familyheart, heart, love,
Form: ABC