Poetry Time
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Poetry time
Every line chimes
Stop on a dime
A buck for a rhyme
What’s a meta for
Similes are, like, a bore
A terzanelle’s attractive
Tho a vi...
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Categories:
traditionalists, humor, inspirational, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Verb-ing
...Written by Gail Debole
November 26, 2024
Adding "ing" to nouns has taken over the town.
English Traditionalists - turn your frowns upside down.
"Being an adult" is now one word.
We are all "...
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Categories:
traditionalists, education, language, teacher, write,
Form: Couplet
In Search of the Lost Tongue
...They journeyed back to the past
Digging deep into archives vast
Day and night they laboured on
Unearthing bones from ancient tombs
In search of the lost tongue
The mother tongue of Urhobos
Th...
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Categories:
traditionalists, history, language, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Sun Cant Shine
...Plastic Alice
through the looking glass
Her daughters have Pans merriment
Hungry for the here and now
Culpability over reality
They are non traditionalists
Parking on yellow lines
Forever dis...
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Categories:
traditionalists, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Noisy Heart
...In the center of my chest sounds;
A pestle and mortar that pound,
With the rhythm of tudu-tudu-tudu;
In a manner that flows,
one and two and three;- breathe;
The ratio of three to one,
Three be...
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Categories:
traditionalists, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''
...“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be const...
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Categories:
traditionalists, england, fate, literature, muse,
Form: Prose
Restricted Life
...Human life deserves a platform to unfold
Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny
Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold
They reject freedom and project a mutiny
Born from the scorn society...
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Categories:
traditionalists, poems,
Form: Free verse
Disparate Matrimony
...Unity of two whilst same gender.
For love, for kinship, for the future.
Tied by the very hands of Destiny.
Of minute difference to the society.
Yet recognized as a monstrosity.
By those fueled b...
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Categories:
traditionalists, change, community, culture, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Thunder Claps
...When conformists' adherence to
irksome, empty, shallow, hollow
obsolete rules
overrides unadulterated substance...
imported intuitive works
of essence, potence...spirit
When lettered l...
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Categories:
traditionalists, angst, culture, freedom, voice,
Form: Free verse
Cooking
...A beef stew is neither a mildew or an orange orbital hue. It is a flavoursome culinary creation. And when particles skip. Dust off the spoon and dance crab like to tunes emerging from the bubbling po...
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Categories:
traditionalists, art, beauty,
Form: I do not know?
Corrosional Clam Creates Calm
...Talismanic turbans trade togas. How great. Short grin large grin. Big beam. And now an elephant in baggy trousers dancing. Peachtree waving. Chutney calling. Tantric trade. Tanks. Till not a tailor. ...
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Categories:
traditionalists, angel, anniversary, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Circumstantially
...A hen meets a duck and joins a hunt. Wow. Wisdom flavours of ancient waters. Lingering laughing llamas lounging. Traditionalists glow and grow from packs of geese, swarms of sausages and packs of noo...
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Categories:
traditionalists, angel,
Form: I do not know?
Witness
...But one day I will, a witness
Muslims and Christians,
even, the traditionalists
When tears will grace this face
Within which my joy will cry
In it my pains of insecurity
The anguish in mi...
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Categories:
traditionalists, emotions, life, love,
Form: Imagism
The Man
...A man acquainted with sorrows and grief
be it then was bruised for our relief
the ones ruling over them kept them in pain
but struck was he so we might Life regain
All like sheep have wandered ast...
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Categories:
traditionalists, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Big Man On Campus
...Two Greek fraternities will battle it out.
Go head to head in a do or die bout.
They will prove their manhood with different games.
Against each other they will make slanderous claims.
The Gree...
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Categories:
traditionalists, history, life
Form: Rhyme
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