AUTHENTICITY of POETRY
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When people comment
on the style or way
I write and the words
I use to express and convey
my thoughts and views.
I tend to stop and ponder
my road less traveled .
Acknowledging, ...
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, tribute,
Form: Free verse
THE MOST FAMOUS LIMERICKTEER
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Thomas Aquinas a 13th century friar
raised poetry a little higher
With his prayer anapestic
an AABBA now styled a limerick
perhaps led to the position of prior!
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, history, word play,
Form: Limerick
Aquinas Lear Limericks
...Thomas Aquinas ,a 13th century Italian friar first recorded use of the anapestic meter in the AABBA form with prayers in Latin until Edward Lear used theform for humourous verse.The title Limerick is...
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, humorous, word play,
Form: Limerick
What Then Endures
...Oh, may LOVE feel its worth, though a concept like time,
Much less Entropy's increase no longer makes sense.
Will light still earn thought's praise if no mortal speaks rhyme,
If no stars (laws exi...
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, faith, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Roses
...Golden Roses
...to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary...to one without faith, no explanation is possible...Thomas Aquinas.
Roses side by side where the grotto stoo...
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, christian, mother, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
God As Archivist
...It is at least interesting to turn life's political economy backward
through reverse-time focus.
Life's memories of an uphill journey,
perhaps even a sacred pilgrimage,
toward an ultimate death...
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Ye of Little Faith
...Ye of Little Faith
for Thomas Aquinas
Part readily the skin
and readily the pulp,
as readily the tongues
wild apples bore,
eviscerate the cores,
and watermelon spit the pits
they c...
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Categories:
thomas aquinas, faith
Form: Free verse