Short Novus Poems

D-oors
A-nd
W-indows
N-eed

N-o
O-bscure
V-iew
U-nder
S-unshine

Topic: Poetess (Dawn Novus)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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L-et 
O-pus 
Z-estfully 
A-pply 

W-ords 
I-n 
L-ife 
L-esson's 
S-ensibility 

Topic: Birthday of poetess Loza Wills (Dawn Novus) - (February 13) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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It takes a 
man 
with a stalwart,
confident, 
martial manner,
and
an almost hitleresque voice 
to convince
a man to kill another man.

It takes a fraction of a second for judgment to strike the primer and 
put an end to the drumhead trial....

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Behold the ship, lost at sea,

It changes direction so frequently,

And I with them, new to sea-faring,

Sit and wonder...will we ever find our bearing?

And all of a sudden it comes to me,

In a moment of divine epiphany:


That a ship, captained by only its sailors,

Cannot navigate a sea, which no-one favors,

And thus I tell my un-happy crew,

The ship will not guide itself,

It is up to you....

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  ~ Novus Ordo Februorum ~ *
   
   February is meant for snow
     freezing weather, ten below

   This year the grass is green and the birds, they sing
     but with trees yet barren, March could still sting
 


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   *'The New Order of February' -- a take-off on what's
      written on the one-dollar bill: 'Novus Ordo Seculo-
      rum,' 'A New World Order.' 
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