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High Sounding Poems - Poems about High Sounding


Premium Member Summer
...High-spirited sports car enthusiasts, burning rubber and speeding in the wind. Motorcycle lovers, making high-sounding noises. Birds singing by day; crickets by night. Fight off the mosquitoes, wa......

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Categories: high sounding, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Brink of Disaster
...“Wars and rumors of wars” – the Bible says That being so, then we should not be surprised When selfishness and greed are bubbling over When covetous, malicious, power-hungry leaders Br......

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Categories: high sounding, perspective, political, power,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member On Writing Good Poetry
...Long ago a professor said to me, “If it isn’t prose, it’s poetry,” and I, a student knowing no better at the time, quickly agreed for a wise teacher’s statements were most impressive to me,......

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Categories: high sounding, poetry, writing,
Form: Quatrain
To Write Poem With Poetry
...Poetry is intended for restlessness, too much sweetness drives away poetry... You can be pregnant with ideas, stocked with what is benefit and write emotionally without stoppage, but the unusual......

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Categories: high sounding, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rustic Shores of Scotland
...Bagpipes in short high sounding squeals that loudly play to the ears appeal some haunting distant melodic foreboding malaise, stretching across an isle of green-blue ways, freed open and ging......

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Categories: high sounding, imagery, surreal,
Form: Rhyme



Hiroshima Poems I
...Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic b......

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Categories: high sounding, child, children, eulogy, father,
Form: Verse
Plain Talk--Not
...I view it as unseemly to use high-sounding language to make an impression. I perceive it to be ostentatious to marshal words vainglorious in succession. It is a determinant of consternation, if ......

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Categories: high sounding, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Blind Seers
...It all began when the blind seers Took the step and trusted their sight. It was dark, the night was cold, The storm had dropped, places were damp When the torch-bearers brought their light. Their wor......

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Categories: high sounding, africa, metaphor, political, satire,
Form: ABC
Current Events Commentary
...Do you think I care For your phony Arab spring And dead trees and hot wind I have never seen a spring without seed popping from the soil I should know I am made from the dust of the earth Spring mus......

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Categories: high sounding, history, places, political, death,
Form: Free verse
I Have Always Known
...I have always known That you are interested in me And I would fall in love with you That we would be together in this place at this time That I would feel exactly this way about you That once I say y......

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Categories: high sounding, dedication, devotion, faith, religion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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