Through the eyes of grief, Anacreontic couplets
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of...
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Categories:
washington irving, bereavement, death, grief,
Form: Couplet
Look Out Below
...The sign he reads out loud, “There’s holes ahead.”
The Rip Van Winkle Bridge quite disturbs me.
A story book that’s come to life — with head
To lose. My dad inches along bravely.
The c...
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Categories:
washington irving, angst, memory, metaphor, water,
Form: Sonnet
Rip-Nodding Til Two
...RIP-NODDING TIL TWO
At dawn’s early light, i’m up and at it.
Mid-morning eyes close in lair, where I sit.
Not merely a wink.
A twenty year blink.
Wake up with cobwebs - Van Winkle’d a bit.
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Categories:
washington irving, sleep,
Form: Limerick
Deep Sleep of Foreigner's Flagon
...For twenty years,
Tears in-between,
Rain and rust
And gray-beard dust.
A flooded flagon,
Empty-dry. Laid aside.
A spook to his wolf,
savior to the squirrels.
A languid man snores
While r...
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Categories:
washington irving, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Visiting Sunnyside
...Ichabod Crane sprang from the brain
Of someone most deserving
Of Sunnyside, his proud domain.
His name? Washington Irving.
He also wrote a tale of note
About one Rip Van Winkle
Who found a sl...
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Categories:
washington irving, history, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Hollow
...The October night was dark and cold,
As the autumn sun was going down,
When I recalled the legends I had been told,
About this sleepy, little town.
There were tales about the haunted woods,
Th...
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Categories:
washington irving, halloween, horror, tribute, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Sacred Tears
...“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and uns...
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Categories:
washington irving, dedication, loss, sympathy,
Form: Free verse