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Tag Archives: fate
Reducto Nostalgia: quatorzain
Some folks who wax nostalgic will believe that all the future’s answers can be found back in a yesterday that never was which lingers, like some land of make believe: a place where truth and justice are dispensed like manna … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, blindness, fate, ignorance, illusion, nostalgia, poetic forms, quatorzain
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Our Sum: clogyrnach
What a world this one’s become: to have begun both deaf and dumb, then learn of singing, the art of bringing love winging; see it come! Who needs make-believe, I wonder, when there’s rain, lightning and thunder that illuminates, feeds … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, balance, battle, clogyrnach, destruction, fate, poetic forms, Welsh verse forms, wonder
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How It Goes
Early in the morning, right before the break of day, standing at the transom one eye turned to either way, soaking in the silence of the crisp December air, trying to remember what he did to get back there. How … Continue reading
The Speed of Now
What use is feeling sorry for what might have never been, some chimera of fantasy that if it had appeared might easily have torn to shreds the life it would improve, inspired to burn too brightly, leaving nothing in its … Continue reading
The Legacy: a dizain
Let those you wish to sing your praise remember not your fabled deeds, nor cite your methods nor the ways you solved a problem, met a need. Reward like this is small, and leads one to perform for weak applause. … Continue reading
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Tagged ambition, ballade, destiny, dizain, fate, poetic forms, posterity, reputation
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Not My Fate: a ballade supreme
They say that love will break your heart, that trouble waits along the way, discouraging those at the start to risk or even try to play; so many rise and greet the day expecting nothing good or kind, and thus, … Continue reading
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Tagged ballade supreme, conformity, daily poems, fate, poetic forms, victory
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Heaven or Las Vegas
for Elvis Presley Well, the coroner he figured no one’s hand was on the trigger, so there really wasn’t anyone to blame. Call him a victim of his fame; we know what killed him, just the same. Never mind his … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged achievement, Chappaquidick, Elvis Presley, entertainment, fate, fortune, Las Vegas, mass media, success
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