Homer Translations
...Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
unrelentingly, beauty, god, home, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Homer translations
...Homer translations
Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
...Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn *****S...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, abuse, america, angst, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Sand
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Sand
Miracle Man
3/18/2024
Sand appears to hotfoot through an hourglass,
unrelentingly depleting our precious time.
Without discernible deviation and no impasse,
plays no favorites ...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, time,
Form: Quatrain
Like the Deer
...I sit, unblinking. If I am still enough, I become part of the story
My breath falls into the rhythm of the whispering leaves, speaking poetry to the crisp glance of the Autumn breeze.
My heart ...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, autumn, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Stories Hence
...All of our songs and stories
are written to hold the shadows at bay
but each evening long dark arms
unrelentingly slink across the land
ever so slowly and inevitably
they blossom out of the rece...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, journey, myth, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Enigma
...How can you miss someone
Who wasn't even there
What do you say then after the fact
When you've offered the best you could share
Why is the cord left unbroken
A tensile strength of steel
W...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Living Law and Dead Beacon
...The idea of a living constitution
has the same forensic indeterminacy
as a committed dream.
I am content to trust this dream to the end
to have it fill my cup of hope all day and night.
I am c...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, rights,
Form: Free verse
The herder
...The wind puffs into hills and across the dale,
Dusty, and thrashing lashes with a gusty gale.
As the herder stoops holding his club in hand,
He watched the eagle in pique as it landed.
The two cr...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, 2nd grade, animal, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
...Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass kil...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Happiness In Joy of Memory
...It's good to celebrate
Or may be not
Our tale's effect brought
How on campus, we acclimate
I remember her, the smile and rapport
In memory o...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, africa, age, art, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not Live
...Ruing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially withdrawn *****Sapiens)
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Categories:
unrelentingly, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Motionless Motive
...Until universities' unions
Unite unrelentingly ulcerates
Unleashing unspeakable ugly urge...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, art, betrayal, career, confidence,
Form: Alliteration
Aloof Brother Concedes Duty Evaded
...Aloof brother concedes duty evaded...
Foremost gratitude heavenly indebted,
jumbling kindling, linkedin mourning
numbness overlaid, pervaded, quashed,
routed thoroughly undermined vibrant
warb...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
On the Touchline
...(Wems Henry Temmy Psalm 82)
I see things of favour as Your right
Either fair or not, You never cease
What if You did not do, will I fight
Wrestling You is an unreasonable tease
An unfathom...
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Categories:
unrelentingly, anxiety, art, betrayal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
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