Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...
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Categories:
rosalind, courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
humbling pride
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My pride fell with my fortunes." William Shakespeare
As you like It --- Act 1, Scene 2, Rosalind to Orlando
pride of life does reign
hoisting human nature’s gain
toward do...
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Categories:
rosalind, character, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Senryu
Where Would We Be
...The contributions of women are sometimes overlooked
But where would we be without the contributions of Katherine Johnson
In the 60's she did finely tune
The mathematical calculations that sent ...
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Categories:
rosalind, science, women,
Form: Ode
I Will Marry You My Dear
...She sat by the river facing the crimson sky
watching the birds fly towards the coral sea
sitting prettily on a blanket of lavender tie-dye
she ate her tangerine<...
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Categories:
rosalind, appreciation, love,
Form: Quatrain
Phebe, He Is Not What He Seems To Be
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, shepherdess Phebe,
but your love for Ganymede can never be.
You are not perspicacious enough to realize
that Ganymede is actually a woman in disguise.
This...
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Categories:
rosalind, fantasy, literature, love,
Form: Rhyme
Rosalind and Orlando
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Orlando has written a lot of love poetry.
Written on leaflets, they have been placed on every tree.
Ubiquitous in the Arden woods, they are easy to see.
Orlando expresses his love for R...
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Categories:
rosalind, fantasy, love, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Few Pages
...on a sultry day when there was nothing else to accomplish,
roaming around listlessly in my parents' house, stumbled at a little diary from my teenage years!
with a pretty picture of a rose bouquet ...
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Categories:
rosalind, me, memory, teenage,
Form: Narrative
Callous Chaos's Combustion
...tactic twain trudging
eerie earth moaning
gaunt goddesses grooving
per punctured feelings
on hoisted hankerings
seeped'n salient scrunchies
then mystic metamorphosis
by bully bewitched
call...
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Categories:
rosalind, allusion, war,
Form: Sonnet
Dream Swimmers
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"Dream Swimmers"
Jack of Hearts
Played his sleeve
Violins, no less,
then,
pebbles thrown at windows
3:33
Love Lifted a Page
to anothe...
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Categories:
rosalind, dream, fantasy, magic, mystery,
Form: Romanticism
To the Lost
...So many women,
Lost to time.
Mileva Maric,
Helene Kaufler-Savic,
Chien-Shiung Wu.
In a world of men,
Their lights in shadow,
We’ve left their memory to fade away.
The pedestal they dese...
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Categories:
rosalind, for her, loss, lost,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Let Me Into Your Heart
...Well, darling, in matters so delicate as this,
What with ever so many variables
And determinants, permutations
And combinations,
It’s hardly ever possible
To tell the turn of events.
I jus...
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Categories:
rosalind, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Memories
...I remember the first day my eyes fell on you.
Saying "your beautiful" - before a "thank you" and I blushing smile - you ran off and left me there with nothing else to do.
I remember the day we...
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Categories:
rosalind, break up, cry, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Rosalind
...He stands atop the ancient towers, both grey and cold as skies
Which howl about and bow the trees, and blow his longish hair—
His countenance stern, he stares below to where his army lies;
Full...
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Categories:
rosalind, absence, devotion, heartbreak, missing
Form: Quatrain
Women Inventors-Creators of History
...Women Inventors/Creators Of History
In Honor of the following great women inventors and creators:
(*Vera Rubin, Cecilia Payne, Chien Shiung Wu, Nette Stevens, Ida Tacke, Esther Lederbe...
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Categories:
rosalind, abuse, betrayal, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Didactic