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So many times
those things
before us
the eye doesn’t see
The changing tide
we fight with all
our might
Globalization is
the crust
on the economic pie
and nothing is the same
when the day is done
Do you stop to wonder...
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Free Verse, Epic poetry, social commentary, heroes, Lord Nelson, Errol Walton Barrow, West Indian history, Trafalgar Square, Independence Square, Trident, poetry for the classroom, Barbados, Norfolk, National Celebrations, Barbados Independence, visualized poetry, curriculum integration |
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(Homostrophic)
The State of Ohio is full of trees when compared with my native land. Wow! I have to say we need
to start planting more trees on the island not only on Arbour Day. Indigenous ones I would say.
Hope it is not too late. Surely, the island could do with more trees....
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Ode, buckeye, forest, cardinals, jays, summer, barbecues, Lake Erie, squirrels, Ohio, quintuple, palmate, legends, rheumatism, nuts, Iroquois, hetuck, university, homostrophic, classroom poetry, iambic pentameter verses, quatrain, rhyme scheme |
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(Didactic Poetry)
In the poem, “Hurricane Preparedness Watch” there is much basic information about the derivation
of the word, ‘hurricane’; how hurricanes are named and how their names are retired. Reference
is made to the entity that gives information about the nature and...
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classroom poetry, poetry nest, hurricanes, category five, retired hurricanes, preparedness, Gulf States, Caribbean islands, West Indies, fish fry, Saffir-Simpson. Meteorologist, Cyclopes, wind dragoons, Rita, Katrina, Hugo, tropical, Hurakan, Atlantic, didactic, weather, poetry visualized |
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(Horatian Ode in Iambic Pentameter with ababcdecde Rhyme Scheme)
The tranquillity of valley hills,
Allows the mind to wander like the clouds,
Above the tree tops with their many thrills,
As nervous leaves rustle in mystic shrouds.
They shadow time each passing...
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Non-fiction poetry, botany, classroom poetry, Horatian Ode, rhyme scheme, chlorophyll, Hawaiian pride, hibiscus, malvaceae, photosynthesis, culinary, Whangaparaoa, pirouette, cholesterol, China, West Indies, potpourri, poetryvisualized |
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This poetic docudrama in the form of an epic poem, Nelson composed
on March 16, 2006 captures the feelings of most Bajans toward the statue of Lord
Nelson in Trafalgar Square, Bridgetown, renamed National Heroes Square. These
Bajans believe that National Heroes should be given...
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West Indian History, epic poetry, Admiral Lord Nelson, Trafalgar Square, National Heroes Square, National Heroes Day, Barbados, poetic docudrama, visualized poetry |
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