Living Poems

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“Ye are better than all the ballads

That ever were sung or said;

For ye are living poems,

And all the rest are dead.”

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~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Elfje:            (Cinquain)

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chantey

folk song 

poem, tale, saga

sung by Burl Ives

ballad

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Haiku:

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hurricane season

tropical storms bring ruin

man has no recourse

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Senryu:      5-7-5 ( Haiku with people and their emotions/feelings as a topic)

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rainbows bring their hope

life and spirits lifted up

smiles with ohs and ahs

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Poem:

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the weather has a profound force
one’s moods it does endorse

clouds and rain a feeling of doom
grey and black describing gloom

a calm starry night renders awe
magnified when viewed upon the utah

bright sunlight warms the soul
a creators vision to extol

rainbows and butterflies
smiles, to the eyes a colorful prize

equatorial deserts and muggy rain forest
nice to visit if you are a tourist

beware of the cold , the blizzard
accused of creating the lounge lizard

for those whose winter sports are euphoric
they need to learn the word phantasmagoric*

how to beat the weather blues
time to take a Caribbean/Mediterranean cruise

defeat the weather, put on a happy mood
for being able to put your mind anywhere, have gratitude

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ME and the Boss

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*phantasmagoric:  having a fantastic or deceptive appearance,
as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
having the appearance of an optical illusion, especially one
produced by a magic lantern. The Greek word phantasma,
meaning “image,” is the ancestor of phantasmagoric, a word
you can use to describe anything so weird it doesn’t seem real.

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