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Heraclitan Bird-Songs

**Jisei-Sonnet** : _The Heraclitan Bird Prepares For Death_ Denied by all, the black and cursèd bird Encased within the pang of pain and grieving, And painted with a crest that sang deceiving, Defied the world - corrupting all they...

Acrostic, Bird, Death, Fire, Iambic, Jisei, Pentameter, Poem, Poetry, Raven, Resurrection, Rhyme, Verse, Volta, corvid, english, literature, lyric, sonnet, suffering

Fables & Follies

**The Lion & The Boar** Two beasts arrive to drink at summer's height, The boar and lion find a flowing stream, But then they clash with brutal words and fight To be the first to drink and reign supreme. But vultures perch within a nearby...

Adaptation, Bird, Boar, Cat, Crane, Fables, Feather, Follies, Fox, Frog, Lion, Maxim, Mice, Mouse, Peacock, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Proverb, Satire, Short, Stories, Verse, Versification, aesop, animal, bell, english, furry, language, literature, moral, narrative, text, vulture

Civilized Nature

**Tanka No. 1 (Spring)** myriad birds perching in radiant hues celestial -- whistling in the leaves the melancholic music of the old depressed flautist **Tanka No. 2 (Summer)** burrowing hornets emerge in heated morning -- the shedding of...

Bird, Civilized, Flute, Hornet, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Summer, Tanka, Tree, Verse, Winter, autumn, english, language, literature, sequence, spring

Gareth, The Wolf Knight (Commission)

His form found fullness furred — Fanged sharp, noble howling Toward soured spirit, canine piercing heart; His human poverty fouling Up vigor of lupine urge. Seeking desperate war, Caught enslaved in the vice cold art — Desiring peace,...

Commission, Gareth, Knight, Love, Poem, Poetry, Proem, Transformation, Wolf, the

To The Shrike

The butcher-bird is perched, like sentinel of stone - Unmovable and steady as the mountain - Upright upon a branch, protruding there alone, Standing guard against the fountain Streaming down across his lethal gaze. The butcher-bird a flash now...

Bird, Ekphrastic, Ink, Meter, Miyamoto, Nature, Ode, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Samurai, Shrike, Sumi-E, To, Verse, art, english, literature, musashi, the

On The Grackle Perched

grackle perched on large jagged stone - keeping watch the grackle perched upon a jagged stone observant of the danger from the throne the grackle perched upon a jagged stone observant of his cautious needs alone the grackle perched upon a jagged...

Bird, Experimental, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Texas, Verse, english, grackle, haiku, literature, lyric

Revolt of 64

**The Revolt of 64 (EN)** The Nobles are dancing on the table - Jumping in and out of the action - While the Clergy laughs Beneath their long-range sighs, And the Third-Estate Is trampled underfoot. The King in his castle, Though relieved and...

Bishop, Checkmate, Chess, Clergy, Free, King, Knight, Monarch, Of, Pawn, Poem, Poetry, Portuguese, Queen, Revolution, Third, Verse, castle, english, estate, literature, nobility, revolt, rook, tyrant

Dangers in Division

One reforms the Love of Christ on thrones above, Setting sibling heart against the flaming dart Foes may fling; apart from kindred kinds in art, Destitute and void — companionship destroyed. Pangs of painted marks, a symbol once in...

Mathnawi, Poem, Poetry, pride, request