Tag: Writer
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The parting
Since there’s no help, come and let us kiss and part. Nay, I have done; you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again,…
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My True Love Hath My Heart
My true love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for another given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven. My true love hath my heart and I have his. His heart in me keeps him and me in one, My heart…
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The Wild Doves At Louis Trichardt
As a proud South African, it gives me great joy to share with you this poem written about my homeland, in fact in one of the most beautiful places here, Limpopo. Enjoy. Morning is busy with long files Of ants and men, all bearing loads. The sun’s gong beats, and sweat runs down. A mason-hornet…
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Joining The Poetry Racket
There are a lot of poets out there, apparently everyone is a poet, on some level. So I thought, if this is the flavor of the week, lets take a taste shall we? With that here is my entry for poem of the week! Roses are red Violets are blue I see the likes Your…
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UW – Grimm’s Unicorn
In the Grimms’ Fairytale about the brave Little Tailor, a King tries to dispose of the hero by setting him impossible tasks, starting with the slaying of two giants that have been terrorizing the land and rashly promising the tailor half the kingdom and his daughters hand in marriage if he succeeds. Well, the wily…
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Unicorn Week – My Precious
Owing to some unicorns actually having existed over time, by whichever means, the unicorn embodies an ideal that one could say, teases us, with a possibility, a glimmer of hope that they may be real. For some, beyond doubt. It is perhaps a dream like creature, one that hints that it just may be real…
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Unicorn Week – Dream Unicorn
The saintly hermit, halfway through his prayers stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to behold the unbelievable: for there before him stood the legendary creature, startling white, that had approached soundlessly, pleading with his eyes. The legs, so delicately formed, balanced a body wrought of finest ivory. And as he moved, his coat shone like…
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Unicorn Week – HMS UNICORN
Linking an age when most people still believed in unicorns , not yet having felt the tide of skepticism spreading from the ivory towers, to one in which the reverse is probably true, is the aptly named wooden frigate HMS Unicorn. One of the longest serving ships in the British Royal Navy, it was built…
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Unicorn Week – Friar Felix Faber
On route from Jerusalem to Cairo via Mt Sinai a ‘trustworthy’ witness of a unicorn sighting, Friar Felix Faber who along with several other travellers in 1483, with the aid and publication of Erhard Reuwich a Dutch artist also with the group. They stopped for a rest in the mountains one day when : Towards…
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Unicorn Week – The Devils Night Mare
Though the Bible gave credibility to the unicorn as a wild and intractable beast, it did not offer much in the way of description, as such it fell to folklore that grew around the various literary fragments. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Cloisters, a complex allegory of a Unicorn Hunt is…
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