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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...
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I called the rain with all my heart,
wanting to feel its clean water on my face
washing away the heat and sweat
that the weightiness of the afternoon
insisted on leaving.
I begged it to wrop me in...
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I have to brush and floss and
clip each nail,
take aspirin, vitamins
to ward off ills,
clear gutters,
flip the mattress,
sort my mail.
I can't forget
to pay the rent and bills.
It's time...
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They rose and hand in hand toward home went on their way.
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They knew they wouldn't find that grafted tree
When first the cherry orchard came at hand.
But what a shock! No, how...
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Religious and spiritual poem.
You'll note that there is a picture of a Christmas tree among the images, snapped by Peter Menkin. There is no Christmas tree in the poem as words. My apologies to...
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Constantine Cavafy
69. GAZING
All the beauty I ever saw before
- yes, all of it; none of it abandoned -
has turned into an archetypal image
lost in the creeping foliage of my brain
among thick...
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Deoxyribonucleic acid is a word,
as large as the influence it casts upon the Earth.
More precisely, it fits nicely, as an acid, based,
in creatures big and small, it is the...
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video poem presentation
English translation:
The poem 'Mùa Khổ - Ngưá»i Äà n bà Phú Yên' invites readers, especially Vietnamese readers, to a narrative poem on the death of a mother in...
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