How lonely is the branch with no bird to give perch,
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Children of Prometheus
Heaven determined that the cosmos be like a frozen sea,
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Suitors of the Sun
Author’s note: This poem was inspired by a quote attributed to Napoleon from a book I’d recently finished titled “Mind of Napoleon” compiled by J. Christopher Herold. “Everybody has loved me and hated me; everybody has taken me up, dropped me, and taken me up again. … Only this was...
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Willful Arrogance
There is a certain arrogance in man,
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A Lit Soul
Author’s note: This poem was inspired by a quote I came across online that I now know came from Werner Herzog’s memoir. I know nothing of the man, but the following quote had me thinking: “I’d rather die than go to an analyst, because it’s my view that something fundamentally...
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Moonlight
How perfect you looked beneath the moonlight,
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An Ashen Inheritance
Among a row of houses sat a solitary great house atop a high hill. This great house was an old house, by and large considered one of the “better” houses. Nevertheless, like all material things, it was not without its blemishes: in some of its support beams were termites; in...
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The Tortoise and the Eagle
Author’s note: Inspiration taken from Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and The Eagle”. Variations of it can be found here https://fablesofaesop.com/the-tortoise-and-the-eagle.html.
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Endurance of Spirit
Man is first pliable,
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Lord's Prayer on a Bowsprit
O Lord,
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