I REMEMBER my yesteryears
...I REMEMBER (1)
Candles & nightlights
flickering bright
blackout curtains
shutting out light
Dripping setting
from Sunday's roast
spread thick
on Monday's toast
Paper chains
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Categories:
threepenny, art, childhood, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Growing Up
...Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting from Sunday's...
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Categories:
threepenny, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Memories Fresh As Yesterday
...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping se...
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Categories:
threepenny, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Past Times 10
...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping se...
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Categories:
threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Memories Made of This
...Candles & nightlights
flickering bright
blackout curtains
shutting out the moonlight
snuggle down cosy
blankets tight
perhaps
the war will end to-night
dripping sett...
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Categories:
threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Good Old Days In Deed
...CANDLES and NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripp...
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Categories:
threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Parting
...Der Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A ...
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Categories:
threepenny, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war,
Form: Free verse
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Burning of the Books
...Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of du...
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Categories:
threepenny, books, fire, holocaust, voice,
Form: Verse
Three Penny Opera
...Three Penny Opera
A penny for your thoughts she said
And paid-up cash, right on the spot
I think I love you was my reply
Do you have another penny or are you
Planning to get my thoughts for fr...
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Categories:
threepenny, fantasy, imagery, lust, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Candles Nightlights Recited
...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting...
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Categories:
threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Lest We Forget
...I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine, street wise scholars.
Conkers,* glass alleys* a...
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Categories:
threepenny, nostalgia, school, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Candles and Nightlights
...Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting from Sunday's roas...
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Categories:
threepenny, family, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain