The Blue Nazarene
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“The Blue Nazarene”
caeruleum caelum
in nubibus
caeruleum
caeruleum caelum
in nubibus
de hyacintho nazarene
testimonium:
white stallions,
clouds commandin...
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Categories:
unspectacular, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Unspectacular
...not a collection of life’s greatest hits
more the matter of odd pieces and bits
most aspects of existence left to chance
not always leading to rapid advance
jumbled together through disjointed t...
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Categories:
unspectacular, history, imagery, perspective, words,
Form: Sonnet
Being Proactive After Getting Hoodwinked
...(alternatively titled: tardy duff fender of assertiveness,
especially after adjusting following insanity clause
affixed with rubber baby-buggy bumpers)
Methinks I nearly got snookered
courtesy ...
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Categories:
unspectacular, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Bachelor Spectacular
...The Bachelor Spectacular
by Michael R. Burch
One heart? Tossed aside.
The other? A bride’s.
In all his great wisdom, the bachelor decides.
Eeenie, mean-ie, mine-y, mo’,
one gal must stay an...
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Categories:
unspectacular, engagement, funny love, heartbreak,
Form: Verse
A Car For Every Perusasion
...There's certainly a wide-ranging variety of different cars
From the Model T to the Tesla -- no longer wildly popular
People want choices to match their lifestyles and moods
Manufacturers wan...
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Categories:
unspectacular, car, future, money, society,
Form: Rhyme
All Aboard
...Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets th...
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Categories:
unspectacular, city, imagery, perspective,
Form: Prose
Our Enemies In Disguise
...****OUR ENEMIES IN DISGUISE***
Norman MacClain wrote, "it is those we live and love, and should know, who loot us"
But whether we like it or not they exist
For some are endowment
And others we go...
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Categories:
unspectacular, betrayal, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
A Traveler's Souvenir
...It isn't just the wonders of the world
that dominate my mind and memory.
Sometimes it is the trifles that cement
in me that dawning consciousness that
makes me suddenly aware, "I'm really here!
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Categories:
unspectacular, travel,
Form: Free verse
Imprisoned
...IMPRISONED (collaboration)
by~ Jun-jun Villanueva
Urbane cavalcade - flaunt in gaiety
Warbling hymns in ego - cyclicity
Jigging gracile moves in vivacity
Relishing in zest in this gravity
Kin...
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Categories:
unspectacular, death, family, love, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Imprisoned - Jun-Jun Villanueva
...IMPRISONED (collaboration)
by~ Jun-jun Villanueva
Urbane cavalcade - flaunt in gaiety
Warbling hymns in ego - cyclicity
Jigging gracile moves in vivacity
Relishing in zest in this gravity
Kin...
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Categories:
unspectacular, life, grave, me,
Form: Couplet