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Xlii Poems - Poems about Xlii


Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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




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