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Rosalind Poems - Poems about Rosalind


Premium MemberBrains 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

Premium Memberhumbling 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



Premium MemberWhere 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

Premium MemberI 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

Premium MemberPhebe, 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



Premium MemberRosalind 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

Premium MemberA 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?

Premium MemberRosalind

...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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things