Chaucer Translation: Escape
...Escape
rondel/roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael R. Burch
Since I’m escaped from Love and yet still fat,
I never plan to be in his prison lean;
Since I am free, I count it not ...
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Categories:
speke, books, freedom, love, prison,
Form: Roundel
Sean Highdale
...Sean Highdale
Sean and four friends went out one night,
To the cinema, ‘cos his mate had just passed,
His driving test, so they hit upon the height,
Of the speed limit, but the car sadly cra...
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Categories:
speke, football, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Nhandi
...I know of, and I rest in awe of the illimitable greatness of the river Congo, and the Yangtze.
I know of and I rest in awe of the brilliance and grandeur of Mt. Everest and Mt. Speke.
I k...
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Categories:
speke, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Speke Holiday Resort, Munyonyo Kampala Uganda
...Perched on the shore of Lake Victoria
Is Speke....
Of its beauty I will speak
In any place I shall be
Granite stones chopped into bricks
Layered one upon another....glued by cement
"Monomutapalian ...
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Categories:
speke, holiday,
Form: Narrative