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Xvii Poems - Poems about Xvii

Premium Member word U S P XVII banksy
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Categories: xvii, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XVII
'La maja desnuda'* by Francisco Jose de Goya his Venus upon a divan did laze with a straightforward& unashamed gaze ...

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Categories: xvii, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Grocery Poem Xvii
cracking like a bat the summer storm moves in quick like ants to aisle nine where chocolate chips litter the floor & the culprit runs away, scared of the thunder...

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Categories: xvii, weather,
Form: Free verse
Early Poems Xvii
Early Poems XVII Morning by Michael R. Burch It was morning and the bright dew drenched the grasses like tears the trembling lashes of my lover; another day had come. And everywhere the flowers were turning to the sun, just as the night before I had turned to the one for whom my heart yearned. It was morning and the sun shone in the sky like smoldering embers in...

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Categories: xvii, 8th grade, day, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vampire Sonnets Xvii Rewired Fate
I took a look and then sank in my teeth to taste the blood that was lying beneath; Consumed by the fever of a vampire instinct is impossible to rewire; Instantly I felt the hunger quiet, no longer did I feel taken by it; Dripping from my lips the taste of copper serene carnage...

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Categories: xvii, dark, emotions, feelings, gothic,
Form: Sonnet



Weak Spots Xvii
Heat building in the cheeks, As disclosures are expressed, Written on pieces of paper— Realizing—they felt it too— Quaking within at the thought of Love becoming more than a word Escaping the lips— But ceaseless spurts of action —Joys and pains both, At the notion of open affection Anxious minds grasping at once For the comforts of connection As the lungs upsurge in and out, The rise...

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Categories: xvii, art, beautiful, courage, creation,
Form: Romanticism
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV Discrimination by Michael R. Burch The meter I had sought to find, perplexed, was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose. I found it in sheet music, in long rows of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks of long-forgotten volumes undisturbed half-centuries by archivists, unscanned. I read their fading numbers, frowned, perturbed? why should such tattered artistry be banned? I heard the sleigh...

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Categories: xvii, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Xvii
time is not a spell - porous plague: bounty bewitchment squinching crest, la-de-da odds fostering surge, drooling dirge heaving lanky lurch time ain't perforated portion ascribed by nocturnal nature: hankering hectares feigning fields, swaying swigs, fused figs, sumptuous spree time outsmarts a tool - meagre mist: gaunt fashion, gullible mimick, fleshened forensics, torn tactics inflected blitzkrieg, damp disc'pline taunted time is an oxygen breathe through it or wane...

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Categories: xvii, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xvii
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XVII IF you pull a long bored face Oh What's the use no way to be gay Ev'ry effort gets bogged in rigged rat-race Some covert service blocks my way Yet you pull that long out-of-shape face Bored by the way things turn out every day No use turning out the lights in bed...

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Categories: xvii, angst, depression, encouraging, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Xvii and Xviii
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : XVII - XVIII XVII IF ever I had a country And if ever I were the Minister...

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Categories: xvii, bird, children, education, music,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Everydayness Xvii
rubbish heap seedlings bulge a plastic bag...

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Categories: xvii, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary [If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could easily, I'd wager, exceed the volumes of the heftiest encyclopaedias, and yet one gets the feeling nothing really new, enlightening...

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Categories: xvii, bible, evil, hate, jealousy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member K167 and K168 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K167 and K168 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary [Here, again, in these two couplets Thiru-Valluvar is having the time of his life making his followers dread the consequences of what he certainly considers the worst of all sins: ENVY. He has therefore recourse to Hindu mythological allusions: in K167, the Goddess Lakshmi...

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Categories: xvii, bible, humor, jealousy, mentor,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member K165 and K166 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
165 and K166 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary (continued) (Commentary: The more I delve into Thiru-Valluvar's work, the more I'm convinced that it's not in each and every couplet that the poet's inestimable worth is ingrained; rather the self-imposed "decade" for each topic appears to be an exercise in flexing his...

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Categories: xvii, bible, jealousy, loss, tamil,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member K163 and K164 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations
K163 and K164 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translation (continued) K163: aran aakkam veendaathaan enbaan piranaakkam peenaathu alukkarup paan Nor wealth nor virtue does that man desire, 'tis plain, Whom others' wealth delights not, feeling envious pain. (Transl. G.U. Pope) Of him who instead of...

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Categories: xvii, bible, evil, jealousy, life,
Form: Couplet

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