In this biting fable, Jean de La Fontaine pokes at the fragility of justice, showing how confusion, rhetoric, and exhaustion can reduce judgment to chance. A centuries-old satire that still feels uncomfortably familiar.
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My poem on Herons #alliterative #reflective #ornithology #originalpoems
I realize I need to add a home link to every page
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In just a few lines, William Allingham reminds us how the simplest spring scene, ducks, sky, clouds, can linger for a lifetime. A tiny lyric about memory, tenderness, and how ordinary beauty becomes sacred with time.
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RE-RELEASE PARTY: WEEK SEVEN
Enlisted my friend Justin again for beats over seven poems that had to do with the theme, "fun." Did some singing, too. #originalpoems #beatswithwords gregwa8.bandcamp.com/album/fun
In The Snowdrop, Tennyson welcomes the earliest flower of the year, small, brave, and prophetic, a reminder that even in the coldest months, renewal has already begun.
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In just eight lines, James Joyce captures the quiet devastation of a choice made for love — and the irreversible cost it exacts. A poem about loyalty broken, intimacy gained, and a friendship lost beyond repair.
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A neat little couplet from Jean Blewett, poking fun at reputation, rumor, and the unstoppable return of gossip — proof that social satire doesn’t need many lines to land its point.
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A classic Bashō haiku — quiet, sharp, and complete in three lines. A reminder that depth doesn’t need spectacle, and strength doesn’t need comparison.
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In The Watcher at the Gate, George MacDonald imagines a quiet guardian of fate — one who sees sorrow, patience, and passage without judgment, waiting for the moment when all journeys return to rest. A poem of endurance, mystery, and hope.
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In Exclusion, Emily Dickinson writes one of poetry’s clearest declarations of inner sovereignty — where the soul chooses deliberately, resists spectacle and power, and guards its attention as something sacred.
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In Content and Happiness, Ella Wheeler Wilcox gently untangles two ideas often mistaken as one — showing contentment as steady and chosen, and happiness as fleeting, intense, and inseparable from fear. A sonnet of quiet clarity.
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In The Bridegroom to His Bride, Jean Ingelow writes love as reverence — a devotion that asks not for riches or triumph, but for presence, intimacy, and shared reign of the heart.
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In Corinna, Thomas Campion binds love and music so closely that emotion itself becomes an instrument — rising with joy, breaking with grief. A beautifully balanced lyric from the Renaissance.
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In this vivid lyric, William Ernest Henley captures the mind in joyful motion — music, memory, love, and weather spinning together until thought itself becomes a tune you can’t turn off.
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In The New Year, Mary Hannay Foott uses the image of a scarred but living tree to remind us that renewal does not erase loss — it grows around it. A sonnet of resilience, faith, and quiet hope.
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An Incident is a grim narrative poem that confronts judgment, hypocrisy, and compassion — revealing how easily society condemns, and how silently suffering can end. Cawein forces the reader to look beyond labels to the human cost beneath them.
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In Convalescence, Vita Sackville-West captures how illness sharpens memory — how stillness imprints places, skies, and sounds so deeply that they follow us across the world. A sonnet of recovery, longing, and quiet endurance.
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A joyful, mischievous poem by Robert Graves imagining a life untouched by want or worry — where freedom, magic, and childhood never quite end.
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In this brief, devastating lyric, Emily Dickinson captures the hush of loss — a departure so gentle it feels unreal, like dew that never returns or a star slipping out of summer’s sky.
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In Dark House, Tennyson captures the unbearable moment when grief meets place — when a familiar doorway becomes a monument to absence, and the world resumes without the one who mattered most.
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Snatch captures the headlong rush of youth — loving quickly, burning brightly, and choosing intensity over safety. A brief poem, but one that lingers like flame.
— Richard Le Gallienne
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In One Dear Smile, Thomas Moore captures the ache of love remembered — where even hope has grown weary, and happiness exists only in what once was. A beautiful lyric of longing and loss.
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In Summer and Spring, Yeats captures a quiet moment of understanding — where conversation becomes light, and love is shown as something inseparable, even when it wounds.
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Christmas by Virna Sheard reminds us that joy and sorrow walk side by side during the holidays — and that kindness, even for one day, can bridge the distance between them.
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"the night 🌙"
The sky is dark,
the night is quiet,
no stars are shining —
I’ve lost my light.
They were the ones who guided me through
the haunted path, featuring
a lifeless view.
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A powerful celebration of joy, rest, and the beauty of self — Hughes reminds us that dreams can be radiant and deeply rooted.
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A tender hope — that love will find its way home, guided by constancy when the night feels endless.
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