Martial Translation COQ AU VIN
...Martial Translations
Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair to ...
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Categories:
quare, addiction, drink, food, house,
Form: Epigram
Balmy January Fifth Two Thousand Twenty Three
...Balmy january fifth two thousand twenty three
pardon moi as I self plagiarize
with slight modifications
cuz following words written
at least an Earth's orbit ago
exhibits pearls of jocularity....
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Categories:
quare, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Quare
...Why would it matter,
why would you care
Voices becalming,
breathless unpaired
Freeing the Dharma,
released in the air
Transcending today
—immortality shared
(Villanova Pennsylvania: ...
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Categories:
quare, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Balmy January Fourth Two Thousand Twenty
...I ran than jumped high
into the upper atmosphere
like a young frisky
buck naked and bare
no matter weight of world
and personal woes oppressive,
yours truly shrugged,
(she loves you yea... y...
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Categories:
quare, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Trip
...You know what I bought this bed sofa the other day
It was the sort for a lofa,yeah it was blue and grey
But yeah I had to take it back, because it had a rip
And would...
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Categories:
quare, natural disasters, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Daimon Hellstrom
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" Jesus, Rex Judaeorum," how best could he
Have shown his qualities than dying on the cross, a fatal fee.
What could he have said while dying than;
"Deusin manus tuas ...
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Categories:
quare, fantasy, mystery, god, me,
Form: Elegy
N#mbers
...M ighty forces of concentration
R eading the minds of those who
S uccumb, breathing realms of perplexity
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N egative, positive their difference and sum
I s it only I in contemplation?
S quar...
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Categories:
quare, dedication, education
Form: Acrostic
Sore Loser
...(This is a fictional poem)
For years my favorite sport was tennis.
But I beat a guy and he became a menace.
He was so mad that he saw red.
He crammed the ball in my mouth and busted his racket ...
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Categories:
quare, animals, funny, sports, dog,
Form: I do not know?