CLERIHEW ecphrasis XLII hughes
Painter Arthur Hughes
in pre-raphaelite who' who's
'April Love'* a reverse ecphrasis
depicting a love affair in crisis
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Categories:
xlii, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of Light
by Michael R. Burch
There was always a surfeit of light in your presence.
You stood distinctly apart, not of the humdrum
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Categories:
xlii, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Sonnet
Love Letter From the Soul Xlii
Ms. Sunshine,
In and out, in and out
hovers of infinity
flickers, a pale moonlight
firefly flight with the gift of sight
out and in, out and in
changing without
challangeing within
a chameleon entrusted
to rearrange
you say, you stay
the wild your prey
falling
longing
green to jade to aqua marine
quality not rarely see
dancing through the naked fields
mouthing whispers, words wet
Freudian slips
moments held, never forgets
the
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Categories:
xlii, love,
Form: Romanticism
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xlii - 42
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE: 42
If you pull a long-bored acrimonious face
Looking hardly at anyone passing your way
Your sunken cheeks spiting your own face
But those bitter bitten lips will give you away
If you keep pulling that long forsaken-look face
Wondering why each face will not own mask betray
Slop around in slippers not deigning to tie
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Categories:
xlii, fun, heartbreak, humor, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
If Ever I Had a Country : Xlii and Xliii
IF ever I had a country in this galaxy : XLII - XLIII
XLII
IF ever I had a country in this galaxy
And if ever by no stretch of the imagination I were the Minister of Information
I'd make it my sworn duty to pin up on every door long lists of the crimes of hypocrisy
Like which nations
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Categories:
xlii, america, anti bullying, environment,
Form: Dramatic Monologue