Short Ambrose Poems

Hortense and Gertrude
   Priscilla, Imogene
Once-popular names
   no more to be seen

Isadore, Cornelius
  Cyrus and Mortimer
Back in the day such
  names courted her

You never know though
  when a name may return
Such as Ambrose, Edsel
   Penelope or Fern...

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Author
                 Ste.phen ambrose
                Band of brothers
                Based on true life
       Inspirational to all military veterans
           Second world war history
               Dramatised to film
                  Emotional ending
                           Loss...

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ELIZABETHAN LOVE PASTICHE

I will pluck  Parmenter from your orchard bower
And taste it’s Ambrose and the scented flower
There we shall pass a brief but blessed hour
While I sup your essence sweet piquant and sour
Lest passing time should look on us to glower
And curse us so no more we may have power
To circumvent the fates and they devour
Our consecrated rapture that they scour

16 July 2019...

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hello 
my name
is Ambrose

and i'm
a male
anglerfish

i admit
i've been
since birth

attached
to my woman
not even to say the

word
love
but

because
of her blood
and above all

so down
in the deep
i need her yes

i am
dependent
on where she

swims
and where
she goes so

yes i
yes i
depend

on
my
wife's

life 
and i
never will

be able
to make it
without her...

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Cloaked in a Civil War Cape
Swaggered the fierce
And fearless and cavalier shape:
Proud Ambrose Bierce.

Editor, author and wit,
Bierce had the zest
And courage and cunning to fit
Well in the West.

Then when his days dwindled lean,
Bierce rode away;
Old Mexico swallowed him clean,
Gulping her prey.

Cynics like him are the last
Men to seek fame,
So bitterness out of the past
Still dims his name....

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Ample Ambrose amplified
Artistic expression until he died
Leaving a legacy of art works galore
All of them fresh, his parents swore

He did not sell one piece when he was alive
Last week his brilliant mother sold eighty-five
How are you so successful we asked her
Easy, she replied. I am a trained marketer.

Ambrose spent his life pursuing his love.
I bet he is enjoying this from above.
He was never one to sell his art.
They were his babies from the start....

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