Without U
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Since 1983, I spent each year
With her, or reasonably near
O to think I once was young, in love
With U (USA) running from African woe
That apartheid in South Africa
Yet I hadn't planned to le...
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Categories:
remus, africa, america, feelings,
Form: Bio
Riddle Me This
...Hey A Diddle, Diddle
The Cat has a riddle...
So when the dish ran away with Spoon
What station did little dog craft
giving big dog reason
to laugh at noon...
"... she works the wir...
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Categories:
remus, life, poets, science, space,
Form: Rhyme
Little Epic of a Poet
...The city where I was born was destroyed
by the dam breach, the house where I lived
became flooded rubble...
I didn't learn to swim there
So I came to Rio de Janeiro...
The city welcomed me with...
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Categories:
remus, adventure, allusion, appreciation, fate,
Form: Light Verse
Shapeshifters
...Sorceress Polgara ascended above all warriors;
Fought wars against mighty kings and came out victorious...!
Remus Lupin, into a werewolf magically turned;
As great professor, taught thrillingly ...
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Categories:
remus, fantasy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Couplet
The Ides of March
...*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.
The Ides of March
Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed eternal ... plus righteo...
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Categories:
remus, celebration, character, conflict, fate,
Form: Sijo
Bat and Gat: Chicken Thief
...What a sad day out on the farm;
A raccoon got a chicken, did harm.
At the edge of the heather,
The large pile of feathers
Was enough to raise the alarm.
Bat and Gat knew they’d need an assist,...
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Categories:
remus, animal, hero, silly,
Form: Limerick
Lupercalia
...Lupercalia
O! Yon Pagan festival Come on come all
Merry men named Valentine Two of which
One who was a priest in third century Rome
He whom defied Emperor Claudius II ban on marriage
His reas...
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Categories:
remus, analogy, engagement, fantasy, identity,
Form: Bio
Harmonise
...I want to write a happy song.
A catchy song that's not too long.
A song like Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-a-Dee-Day.
Uncle Remus sang long ago in his day.
I have the urge to write something that will...
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Categories:
remus, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
...Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interp...
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Categories:
remus, england, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Romulus Has Forgotten
...You think you have problems? Romulus said.
A woodpecker made sure we were well-bred.
A she-wolf too
Ask Remus, you…
Forgetting he had struck his brother dead....
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Categories:
remus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Limerick
Medieval Poems V
...Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never in...
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Categories:
remus, earth, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme
Medieval Poems Iv
...Medieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic ...
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Categories:
remus, angel, mother, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
...Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds ...
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Categories:
remus, beauty, french, heart, innocence,
Form: Roundel
Romulus and Remus
...In similar kind the blood of violent dynasty's
remains distinct without conscience
its empire of centuries
branded hot upon the slave born sweat
and to dictatorship
bring the mind and soul of ...
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Categories:
remus, analogy, society, world,
Form: Free verse
Roman Reign
...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/roman-reign
https://youtu.be/Z1hAGvzB8Nk
The prominent years, of which did last
Great heights of power, of centuries past
According to legend, thy Rom...
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Categories:
remus, children, history,
Form: Free verse
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