Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls
...Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls
The boys of summer
Set up for a season of lines, launch angles and curve balls
With straight chalky lines leading to a field of dreams
Where line-ups keep ...
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Categories:
salamis, baseball,
Form: Free verse
Hcs 2 'so Beautiful and Cutting Up Salamis
...TWO
SO beautiful! And cutting up salamis!
She drops one, which I grab – I wash it off!
She radiates, just like the pregnant mommies
I see, passing the school… Now, now, don’t scoff!
The Love...
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Categories:
salamis, appreciation, love, wife,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Hcs 1 'I Come Home and She's Cooking In Pajamas'
...This 'Heroic' Crown of Sonnets, I am posting as seven separate Sonnets, for ease of reading. This is written with thanks to a fellow poet, who is most likely too modest to be mentioned, but whose gr...
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Categories:
salamis, appreciation, love, wife,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Playing With Native Nigerian Names
...omo-gori-ola- "often only hollas" but...
its my mic not ikenna's
aunty tee momohmutana-seems to like plenty tea more than bannnas
Gertrude? NO! she aint RUDE! dont. .. slam her
Olumide- he's only...
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Categories:
salamis, fun,
Form: ABC
The Bridge At Abydos 2
...VII
There never was an army quite like Xerxes’.
Hyrcanians, Medes, Egyptians, Syrians, Scyths –
soon, Greece would grovel at its tender mercies –
a fate more gruesome than the grimmest myths.
It...
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Categories:
salamis, history,
Form: Rhyme
Salamis
...Deep in the ocean,
where the sun
doesn’t reach
and the galleys
of Salamis sleep,
the fish-moons
pass
on tip-toe.
In yellow
the time is shining,
forged
to the oars
of once passed
foam
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Categories:
salamis, garden, ocean, war,
Form: Free verse
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 08
...Brutus Iulius Trois page 08
Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement...
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Categories:
salamis, history,
Form: Epic
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06
...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06
The defeated Pandrasus spoke out
his weary words weighted with wisdom.
Linus is as Greek as I am Greek and as a Greek
let him inherit the crown, I'll name no other ...
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Categories:
salamis, history,
Form: Epic
The Longest Day
...THE LONGEST DAY
It’s an astronomical fact little-known
That New Year’s Eve nineteen ninety one
Was the longest the record will show.
The sun set in the west at Heathrow
As our plan...
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Categories:
salamis, traveleve, sun,
Form: Narrative