Tag: form
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“New Worlds” by David Pollard
New Worlds The redwoods lime their twisted rust near the funereal waters’ greying tides. The wide winged phoenix climbs beyond its dust, an eyeing crow upon the wind it rides. Above the shore’s funereal cobalt tides of old Atlantic shores by old worlds dying, an eyeing crow rests on the wind it rides sounding a […]
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“Earthly Terror” a sonnet by Louise Glück
Earthly Terror I stopped at the gate of a rich city. I had everything the gods required; I was ready; the burdens of preparation had been long. And the moment was the right moment, the moment assigned to me. Why were you afraid ? The moment was the right moment; response must […]
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Two sestinas
‘Sestina’ by Dante Alighieri I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, to the short day and to the whitening hills, when the colour is all lost from the grass, though my desire will not lose its green, so rooted is it in this hardest stone, that speaks and feels as though it […]
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