The Ambassador of Ferrara Writes to His Prince About a Cool Party in 1572
...Such throaty timbres – oboes and bassoons –
such gowns! My Lady, apricot and plum,
her sleeves ablaze with blue October moons –
for one short night, her villa had become ...
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Categories:
revels, food,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
The Bot as a Bard’s Boat
...When ideas are locked in a cage,
The bot frees poetry of its rage,
Like analgesics on a fresh wound—
A turbulent sea where pains are drowned.
The goal’s not to write, but to refine,
To make rh...
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Categories:
revels, extended metaphor, feelings, future,
Form: Rhyme
From the Core to the surface
...From surface to the core,
we built with metaphor —
now silence stands
where voices used to soar.
We don’t talk anymore,
are you pretty sure?
It’s not like before…
but I remember you,
like an ...
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Categories:
revels, allegory, art, dream, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
From Here To There
...Praises to Thee, my soul soars and revels
Songs I sing where my heart dwells
Faith I live with and grow...
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Categories:
revels, devotion, prayer,
Form: Kimo
Bastards I Have Met
...They come in all shapes and sizes,
some wear badges and some disguises.
Some I remember and some I forget
but here are some bastards I have met…
The dumb bast...
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Categories:
revels, humanity, men,
Form: Rhyme
Purple luxury
...The true dawn of dreams
that lingers like twilight’s kiss.
Luxury’s revels
draped in a regal cloak’s hush.
Crowned with velvet robes
of night’s elegant embrace,
with a mind and soul
brushed ...
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Categories:
revels, extended metaphor, identity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Sangfroid
...Fall.
Sweet songs
fill the air,
in icy times.
'Neath magenta skies
stoic redbird dances,
on bare twigs, to his own song.
He revels in blue stars and snow
awaiting first rays of coral ...
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Categories:
revels, autumn, beautiful, color, endurance,
Form: Etheree
PURE NORMALITY
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EVERYTHING IS NORMAL
The backwater
dreams is catching the winds
to become a whirlwind again...
The past daydreams
of recovering time
to live the present...
Rest
revel...
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Categories:
revels, allusion, analogy, perspective,
Form: Couplet
A Court of Spoils
...You were crafted from grace and intellect
A masterpiece of resilience, standing firm in your unwavering independence
Yet you have an innate desire
To be adorned with affection, cherished like roy...
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Categories:
revels, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Captured Moon In Cauldron Of Love
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I hear the birds sing in the whispering breeze for you,
as the sunburst sky flushes your garnet-groomed face.
How endearingly attractive you’re then to me,
I know in my mesmerized mi...
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Categories:
revels, analogy, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 1 by Michael R Burch
...These are modern English translations of love poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. These are poems of love, longing, passion and desire.
To Rosemounde: A Ballade
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael...
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Categories:
revels, beauty, dance, desire, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever
Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...
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Categories:
revels, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
jungle raves
...Vibe-check, it’s Friday. Yay! A delightfully cool Friday at that! I’d like to thank the democratic party (which I’ve heard controls the weather now). Has the heat finally surrendered to the inevitabl...
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Categories:
revels, cheer up, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
CONJURING Crimson on mY DoorsteP
...Circumstances...circumcising visions of premonitions
Orange sun shines on thousand seconds after dawn
Not that yesterday mattered anymore
Just so that you know, I'm sore...you're a bore and a fla...
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Categories:
revels, confusion,
Form: Acrostic
Enigma
...Jueju 10-8-24
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Enigma
My baby has no grave
Slipping from my womb
Upon a crimson wave
Too soon to feel your heartbeat
A son or a daughter
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Categories:
revels, angst, baby, faith,
Form: Jueju
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