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Category: History
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Free Verse / History
Calico Jack

Calico Jack

I can smell the sweat and tar of your greasy jacket, red as this colleen’s hair, calico as rough as …

 #adventure #Calico Jack #Nigel de Costa #pirates #women
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History / Metrical / Rhyme
Pondering at Promontory Point

Pondering at Promontory Point

“May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” – …

 #Mark Vincent #railroad #unity
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. Contemplative / . Philosophical / Change / Fixed Form / History / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
The New Alchemy

The New Alchemy

  Might we again relearn what once was known To forebears long ago but somehow lost By later generations–scorned and …

 #alchemy #ancient wisdom #common sense #Gavin Quinn #lost knowledge #social unrest #sonnet
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. Mystical / Free Verse / History
This Ancient Evening

This Ancient Evening

This ancient evening has visited Countless times across the centuries. The cool air holds the gazes of Peasants, warriors, and …

 #connection #Cynthia Lewis #eternal #ethereal #timeless
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. Philosophical / History / Metrical / Rhyme
Collision

Collision

The train was fast approaching; it was speeding up the track; a giant metal monster in a rage of smoking …

 #Lisa La Grange #progress #train #wreck
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. Whimsical / History / Humor / Metrical / Rhyme
On Receipt of a Punch Bowl

On Receipt of a Punch Bowl

(with apologies to Oliver Wendell Holmes) This antique silver bowl you gave to me one Christmas time, still tells the …

 #bowl #imagination #libation #lore #misadventure #myth #Terry Fitterer
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. Contemplative / History / Metrical / Rhyme
America’s Crossroads

America’s Crossroads

Because they have their mortal fears Of terrorists in bandoleers, Of men who marry other men And girls who might …

 #America #awareness #fear #Glenn Meisenheimer #injustice
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. Nostalgic / History / Metrical / Rhyme
The Auction at the Farm

The Auction at the Farm

The neighbors gathered in the yard to have a look around, The cowboy hatted auctioneer had yet to make a …

 #cowboy #Mark Vincent #memories #neighbors #sale #values
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