After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...
Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
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Categories:
vaingloriousness, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Of Lies Told That Once Destroyed Innocent Girls' Lives
...https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-convergence-of-the-twain/
The Convergence of the Twain
--- By Thomas Hardy
(Lines on the loss of th...
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Categories:
vaingloriousness, appreciation, art, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Yours Truly, Peregrine Falcon
...I'm a bird of prey creme de la creme.
On air, I'm like a heat-seeking missile,
a kamikaze airplane swooping down
on prey with lethal precision.
My large eyes, as sharp as an Eagle's.
Tell the...
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Categories:
vaingloriousness, animal, bird, humor, imagery,
Form: Personification
Eve of the Faery Clock, Snippet of Canto I
...Influenced by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Rape of the Lock," my goal is to write this completely in iambic meter with (mostly?) rhyming couplets. (Though the intro's meter varies, ...
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Categories:
vaingloriousness, dark, eve, fantasy, satire,
Form: Epic