Forgiveness Is Arisen from the Garden’s Grave: Chrysostom’s Paschal Homily in Alliterative Verse ... Death is conquered by our Christ enduring it. / Hell is destroyed by His descent below ...

Before Easter quite rolls out the door ...

Kathryn Ann Hill's alliterative paraphrase of Chrysostom's Paschal Homily

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Winter Window by C. Ryan Moniz In the morning’s quiet, calm and blue-grey, / when the raucous, black redwing is still away ...

"Winter Window" by C. Ryan Moniz, on Frogotten Ground Regained

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White Owl Irruption: A poem in alliterative verse by Pam Clements First they come flying, fast as Finn at Finnsburgh, / when he laid swift sword · in steady lord's lap / looking for raw revenge ...

"White Owl Irruption" by Pam Clements, on Forgotten Ground Regained

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What the Peepers Say ... As we drift away on our echoes / we are the details / we are the distance and / all calling becomes our calling

"What the Peepers Say" by Margaret Noodin, on Forgotten Ground Regained, a poem in both English and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)

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Wayland's Revenge:A poem in alliterative verse by Ian Holt ... The smith did not sleep, but smote the anvil / all the while dreaming of the dread revenge / he would wreak on such a wretched ruler ...

More on Wayland Smith and his penchant for revenge.

"Wayland's Revenge", by Ian Holt.

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Volund's Revenge: An Alliterative Poem Describing a Scene from the Poetic Edda One lost liberty / by loosened bonds / that snidely snipped / were snaring trammels: / caught by the cutting / of cords away, release of bondage / laid it upon him...

There's no vengeance like making a goblet from the skull of our enemy's child.

"Volund's Revenge", by Rahul Gupta

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Unmoved, by Donald Mace Williams ... numinous, pale, / I stand as sorceress, · summoning weather, / guiding, inspiring · my scornful adorers.

"Unmoved", an Anglo-Saxon style riddle by Donald Mace Willams on Forgotten Ground Regained

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Unfathomable (Isaiah 40:25-31) by Kathryn Ann Hill “To whom will you compare Me?” the Holy One asks. / “Or who is My equal in all the earth?” ...

“To whom will you compare Me?” the Holy One asks.
“Or who is My equal in all the earth?”

From "Unfathomable", Kathryn Ann Hill's alliterative verse paraphrase of Isaiah 40:25-31.

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The Dream of the Rood: An Alliterative Verse Translation from the Old English ... Of old I was formed for fiercest torture, / most foul to folk, before I fetched them, / heroes in hall, the highway to life ...

In honor of Good Friday: William G. Carpenter's translation of the famous Old English poem, "The Dream of the Rood".

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The Coming of Robin Hood [Poem] on JSTOR Daniel G. Hoffman, The Coming of Robin Hood [Poem], The Sewanee Review, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 641-645

Today is the birthday of Daniel G. Hoffman, the 22nd US Poet Laureate. Here's one of his poems, "The Coming of Robin Hood", published in the Sewannee Review.

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“Therefore leave the man alone, my dear lord Gawain, and for Christ’s sake, sir, set off by some other route! God speed you, go! Just get on your way, and I shall head home myself; but first hear me promise what I shall swear before God and all his good saints: So help me God, the Holy Mother and whoever else! I will keep your secret safe and certainly never say that you ever had to flee from any foe I knew.” “I am grateful,” Gawain said, and gruffly replied, “I wish you well indeed, for you want to help me, and I am certain my secret would be safe with you. But no matter how close you kept it, if I came this far, then let that fellow frighten me enough to flee as you suggest, I could only be called a coward; I could not be excused. I shall chance the Green Chapel, whatever that choice entails, and tell that terrible knight whatever tale I please. Whatever future befalls me, I’ll take what fortune grants or waives. Though no one ever escapes that stern fellow or his stave, yet God can change the shape of fate itself, and save.”

Sir Gawain's guide advises him to run away, because death awaits him at the Green Chapel.

Gawain is made of sterner stuff.

(Or does he really believe that the Green Girdle will save him, and not God?)

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What a Perfect Poem: An Alliterative Poem in the Style of Late 15th Century Flytings Pal, pardon me, but your polished verse / like a bright, burnished mirror just blanks out my vision. / When you take your turn next, I trust you'll be terse -- ...

And finally, for those who are too taken with their own poetic skills, a flyting, "What a Perfect Poem", by yours truly ...

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Welcome to Our Website: An Alliterative Poem on Point and Click Greed ... Fill out our forms, / get freebies galore / (our plan is just perfect / for point-and-click greed.) ...

"Welcome to Our Website", by yours truly ...

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Mitch's Choice: An Alliterative Poem by Richard Pierce In which the protagonist of Richard Pierce's poem, The Book of Mankey, dreams he's his dead dog Mitch, trying to figure out a game show.

"Mitch's Choice", by Richard Pierce

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Rædwald's Return: A poem in alliterative verse by Karen M.P. Carlson “Perhaps the best known ... story about Sutton Hoo is Edith Pretty’s claim she saw an armed warrior standing on top of Mound 1 long before the excavation took place” . Maybe he wanted to be found!

"Raedwald's Return" by Karen M.P. Carlson

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Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine When freshly hatched, I found a hoard. / To guard my gold, I grew its size, / alert in lair ‧ laid around it ...

"Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon", by Martin Vine

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Oversold -- An Alliterative Poem by David B. Ring Ever had it up to here with marketers?

"Oversold", by David B. Ring

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King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine ...weapons of wonder ‧ Weland crafted -- / with elven pilots, Penda’s gleaming / Apache attack ‧ helicopters ...

King Penda's Apache Attack Helicopters, by Martin Vine

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Heorot, the Early Days: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine ... Laurence Longlocks ‧ launched into revamp: / The hearth was heaved, hurled on the midden, replaced by a piece ‧ of post-modern /Scandinavian ‧ sculpture in steel ...

Heorot, The Early Days, by Martin Vine

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Horace: Epode 2 -- An alliterative verse translation of Epode 2 by the classical Roman poet Horace The fellow's worth a fortune who, far / from commerce, cultivates his fathers' / farm with his own oxen & is free / of usury -- like the folk of yore ...

Horace, Epode 2, translated by John Quinn

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Beor's Lament: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine Among the mead-cups, misery I suffered -- / Sloshed with gesiðas, smashed at the feast, / as hamstrung as Weland ...

"Beor's Lament", by Martin Vine

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In honor of April Fool's day, here's a thread of humorous alliterative poems and light verse ...

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Under the Eye by Michael Helsem ... He leapt up in the half light / of lamps & lucent moon. / I hadn't thought to be so met / any more than he ...

"Under the Eye" by @graywyvern.bsky.social on Forgotten Ground Regained.

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Two Riddles: Poems in alliterative verse by Ian Greenwood Two Old English style riddles. Guess them if you can.

"Two Riddles" by Ian Greenwood, on Forgotten Ground Regained

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The Exiles Return (Isaiah 49:8-13) by Kathryn Ann Hill ... I will make You My pledge to My own people, / to re-establish estates and restore the land, / that You may call forth the feeble captives, / and summon into the light those sitting in darkness ...

A poem for the fourth Sunday in Lent.

"The Exiles Return" (Isaiah 49:8-13) by Kathryn Ann Hill on Forgotten Ground Regained
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Toad's Porch -- An Alliterative Poem by David B Finch ... Sitting on soft · and seeping grasses / where a rivulet runs · right to the edge, / I glance out · over the glacial valley ...

"Toad's Porch", by David B. Ring, on Forgotten Ground Regained

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To Varius: An Alliterative Translation of Horace's Ode, 1.6 ... Who else is worthy to write · of well-armored Mars / in his metal-hard tunic, or of Meriones, / his figure turned dark · with Trojan dirt ...

"To Varius", Horace (Odes 1.6), translated by Kevin Corbett, on Forgotten Ground Regained

Latin hexameters seem to translate pretty easily to alliterative verse.

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The Yule Tree: A Poem in Alliterative Verse by Patricia Masson ... None could doubt who saw it / how holy and haunted · that hallow of the god, / the eldest of oak; of all in the forest / greatest in girth ...

Patricia Masson, "The Yule Tree" on Forgotten Ground Regained.

The Season Requires a Sacrifice.

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The Worm in the Wood by James Dorr: an Arthurian poem As so it lies, spoilage for ravens and robbers, / the Alpha and Omega, I, who speak to ravens, / ken of them tales both of future and past, know / to this it comes, always ...

James S. Dorr, "The Worm in the Wood", on Forgotten Ground Regained

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The Woodchuck: A Poem in Alliterative Verse by Rachel Trousdale Listen! to the lay · of the loathsome lurker, / grumbling grabber, the greedy groundhog ...

"The Woodchuck" by @rvtrousdale.bsky.social on Forgotten Ground Regained

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