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Ode To Murasaki Shikibu
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Ode to Milady:
Compelled I am by your shade.
To write about you.
Murasaki Shikibu.
About your “Tale of Genji.”

Your “Tale of Genji.”
Prosaic —...
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God Help the Unheard Children
— Leslie Kay Lanham
Children should be seen, not heard
Who made up this rule?
If this is how you truly feel
Then you Sir, are a fool.

Many children go unheard
We look,...
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For My Brother
— Will Scarlet
With a 10 cent memo pad
And a number 2 pencil
My Brother left me a stencil
A blueprint for his...
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I Danced With Calliope Last Night
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
I danced with Calliope last night,
while playing musically.
She with the harp, me with the flute.
I danced with her while dreaming.

‘Twas by the...
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Everybody's Mother
— James Walker
She's Everybody's Mother,
She blows her breath,
On every little burn and scratch

She soothes,
every little wound and...
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Martin Luther King’s Dream For America
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Meandering through the passage of time,
A prophet and seer among us.
Resilient in the quest to find peace;
To broken souls, bring them healing.
...
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An Ode to the Thinkers, Believers, and Dreamers!!
— Belinda Richmond
THANK YOU
to the

 THINKERS,
that
brings our

 MINDS to
THOUGHTS,
THANK YOU

 to the
BELIEVERS,
Your

 ENCOURAGEMENT

 to us
MEANS

 A...
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Sweet Lydia
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
And have you ever seen a bird in flight
How gracefully she soars above the trees
Leaving her roost in Winter’s blight
When Autumn leaves begin to...
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Ode to a Taoist Wildflower
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
A Taoist Wildflower,
in a cultivated field,
standing bravely, ever firmly;
observing nature’s offerings,
unsullied by pretenses of human imagery.

...
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A Date with New York
— Natalia Carmona
Huge city enveloped by the night
With myriad shiny twinkling eyes
Your magic floods with joy my heart
And I stretch my arms to give You
A Hug of ...
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An Ode: For My Mother
— ThoughtsFromB4
Dearest mother, I wish to write to thee
On this motherly day of love and glee
To tell you how much I appreciate
The role that you’ve played in shaping...
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Mother's Day
— Randy West
God was busy making angels, and one stood out from the others.
He saved up all His special parts and put them with my mother’s.
He felt this job was...
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Universal Thunder
— Joann Rita Vega
Crying of fear.
There comes the wind.
Crying of anguish.
There come the tears,
And the desperation
For not being able to change the order.

Crying...
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Ode to The Etheree Poetry Style
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Poetry of thought:
Etheree, O Etheree!
The art of writing…
Ouroboros poetry…
Revolving ‘round its center.

Poetic wonder.
Arkadelphia project.
A...
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Train Ride
— Kim Travis
The chugging of the engine
As we take it round the bend
The driver blows the whistle
And we hear it at the end.

We meander through the stations
...
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The Great Giraffe
— Benson Chukwueke
A god has been born to us
But we didn't know
The wise men in the east saw the star
But didn't know
Didn’t the prophet foretell his coming
Didn’t an...
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Ode to a piano
— Henry Louis White
Two hands in practiced grace,
Glide skillfully across the piano's face.
The fingers move as if they dance,
Each in their own disciplined stance.
The...
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Are You Traveling to Oron
— Benson Chukwueke
Are you traveling to Oron to be lost
In the mysteries and secrets of Ekpe, the Bermuda triangle
lban Isong, a land deeply rooted in the ocean
With...
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A girl in the rain
— Deep Bhattacharjee
Rain O' Rain
Through all her eyes and in my pain,
I still see the mist of joy in simmering clouds,
All through your body and in your vein,
You're...
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An ode to Robert Frost
— Royce I. Emley
One morning, I happened on a divided path in a yellow wood
Then realized it was like the one where Robert Frost once stood
I stopped and stared afar,...
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Old Dog
— Leslie Kay Lanham
Sweet old dog that I have found
By this tree where you are bound
Let me take a look around -
Your chains I will unwind.

Tell me, is it he or she?
...
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"Ode to our Veterans"
— (Prof.) P J Gammarano, M.A., JD
"Ode to our Veterans" by Prof P J Gammarano, M.A., JD

It does not have to be Veteran's Day or Memorial...
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Merchant of Soul
— Lugesan Reddy
Why does no one come
to my sincere stall?
It's market day at school,
where we showcase, for all,

our products of beauty.
Our creations. Our work.
...
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Phases of you
— Carissa Baker
Where do we draw the line?
Where do we draw the line, between friends and lovers?
I don't think of my friends in the ways in which I think of you.
...
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Foreign Friends
— Lugesan Reddy
We have finally arrived
to this place called Earth,
where we come in precious peace
for our colony's rebirth.

It was serendipitous to find
your...
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