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Saint Sebastian

On slow and smoky fire thou burn'st and art consumed,
O thou, my soul!
On slow and smoky fire thou burn'st and art consumed,
With hidden dole.

Thou droopest like Sebastian, pierced with pointed arrows,
Harassed and spent.
Thou droopest like Sebastian, pierced with pointed arrows,
Thy flesh all rent.

Thy foes encircle thee and watch with gleeful laughter
And bended bow.
Thy foes encircle thee and watch with gleeful laughter
Thy torments slow.

The embers burn, and gentle is the arrow's stinging
'Neath the evening sky.
The embers burn, and gentle is the arrow's stinging
When the end draws nigh.

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poem by Valery Yaklovich Bryusov
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New-Year's Eve

Good old days--dear old days
When my heart beat high and bold--
When the things of earth seemed full of life,
And the future a haze of gold!
Oh, merry was I that winter night,
And gleeful our little one's din,
And tender the grace of my darling's face
As we watched the new year in.
But a voice--a spectre's, that mocked at love--
Came out of the yonder hall;
'Tick-tock, tick-tock!' 't was the solemn clock
That ruefully croaked to all.
Yet what knew we of the griefs to be
In the year we longed to greet?
Love--love was the theme of the sweet, sweet dream
I fancied might never fleet!

But the spectre stood in that yonder gloom,
And these were the words it spake,
'Tick-tock, tick-tock'--and they seemed to mock

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poem by Eugene Field
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Alphabet Artistry

ALPHABET ARTISTRY
Able acrostic artist’s alignment adds air.
Alliteration asks acknowledgement aware,
Bard’s brain bequeaths benchmark billet, blends braid bans blare,
Beware braggarts’ boasts, banality, betrayal backstair.
Classic composition, clear content, compare
Creative couplets, compliment competent care.
Drawing descriptions deftly displayed debonair
Droll doggerel dubbed dextrous, doubts dismayed. Declare
Entertaining epistle’s extent e’er ensnare
Easy erudition evident everywhere
Fair fancy’s flight futility forbade, fine flair
Flickering forever – feeble fops fade – fan fair.
Great gifts, gainsay gameplay grandiloquent, gross glare,
Gain gleeful guests, greet gallant guy, girl, gent, goad galere.
Here he has honed his heavenly homemade highbrow
Handwritten harvest, handmade harlequinade … how?
Insight inviting idyll irreverent, ifere
Invents ideas intelligent, intent inhere
Judicious jumble joke jest judges jaded jeer,

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Have a Happy Blessed Birthday

Its yo' birthday,
I wanna wish u,
This day, its somehow special,
its yo' birthday,
A remarkable day,
filled with cheer,
smile for today,
hope its fun,
thank God for today,
for today, its a gleeful day,
may u stay and live,
till another years and more birthdays.
Celebrate today,
Enjoy the fullest today,
Butta also some for us,
the dead and gone.

Its yo' birthday,
Happy birthday to you,
Some years back you was brought to this Earth today,

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poem by Kiyaga Lyttle Cephas
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Clear blue water stream
Gleeful song of spring babbles
summer's promise sings

haiku by Dorothy Holmes (07 June 2008)
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The Damned Wear Red And Black

the damned wear red and black
and a gleeful fool like you will smile

as if you were saved
as if you were smart

poem by Zhi Bai Peng
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Network For Lonely People

Lonely People

Are those people

Who don't have a network

Of friends that works

For them.

Getting lonely people

To network

Is hard work

And not gleeful,

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poem by Lonely People Champion
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Liberation

Slipped in through window
Pokes herself in the mirror
A sparrow at home

She circles in mirth
Round the running fan gleeful
Hit..! ! falls on the floor

A while in weak squeaks
Out through way back flaps escape
Fanning Hades fades out

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Politician

'Right is wrong and wrong is right, '
The gleeful politician said,
'This is where our policies have led:
It didn't happen overnight,
But now we've achieved what we worked at for so long:
Wrong is right and right is wrong
And Truth is dead.'

poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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Someday Soon

Someday I'm going to
leave this old world,
going to leave it behind.

I'm going to fly away
to that golden shore
beyond the blue.

Leaving my cares behing,
no more pain or heartache,
only content and peace,

will follow me there
for all eternity, seeing
my departed love ones,

once again in a gleeful
reunion filled with much bliss
and seeing the face of my Saviour.

poem by Jim Foulk
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