Cassiopeia
...Just like her favorite character Alice, she wears a light blue dress and a pinafore, she pairs it up with white tights and black Mary Jane shoes. A black ribbon pulls hair tight, she adds something...
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Categories:
rhine river, fantasy, science fiction,
Form: Haibun
Flicker Fine
...O boulder, with pitch resin shine!
Flicker fine at night!
Fate and Fortune, thus we dine!
Sign, O line of sight!
Ichor in immortal veins?
Crenellate to hold.
No use waiting for the rains!
Sa...
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Categories:
rhine river, firework,
Form: Rhyme
My Switzerland
...Mountains of my life
never forgotten.
Rivers of my veins
flowing through my memories.
Green Swiss valleys,
far from my sight,
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Categories:
rhine river, absence, appreciation, beautiful, birth,
Form: Free verse
Father In Law War Operations
...Unescorted NYC HMT NY 660 Louis Pasteur started out from
New York Harbor Nov. 30, 1944.
Landed in Liverpool, England Dec. 8th, 1944. Arrived Brddulph,
Staffordshire, England Dec. 9th, 1944.
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Categories:
rhine river, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Dreaming On My Tummy
...My heart takes a deep breath
Soul floats to the south.
I care not, I am in the dream zone.
Ideas waft in and out of my semi-consciousness
I am lying on my tummy on a fluffy white blanket
Smack...
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Categories:
rhine river, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Concert In West Germany
...On the bluffs above the Lorelei Rock,
Overlooking the Rhine River near Bingen,
Is the Lorelei Ampitheater.
While stationed in West Germany,
Towards the end of the Cold War,
I saw there an aweso...
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Categories:
rhine river, music,
Form: Narrative
Beer
...This is the best beer I've ever had.
Yes, The best beer I've ever had.
No beer is really bad, but
This is the best beer I’ve ever had.
Beer’s invention was accidental I’m told.
Something about...
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Categories:
rhine river, adventure, best friend, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
For My Dad
...More than two years it be since me old dad had to fly. I miss him you know, he was
my best friend. I miss the twinkle in his Scottish,Irish,American eyes, a kind and
caring Gent was he. Times the...
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Categories:
rhine river, fatherdad, world, age, old,
Form: Free verse
The Siege of Strasbourg
...Prussia and the other states are moving like a juggernaut.
Each day, our forces are falling to the onslaught.
The German states and cities are united as one.
We have been no match for them since t...
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Categories:
rhine river, history, war
Form: Rhyme
The Third Fall of Lorelei
...Perched on a stony gray shore I await
The next wayward sailors; I decree their fate
From the lofty Rhine cliffs did I long ago fall
Now passersby answer my beckoning call
Though hardy they be, ...
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Categories:
rhine river, lost love, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme