Stories tagged “iambic pentameter”
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If You Just Look Hard Enough
If we stare straight ahead with blinders on Minding our own business until they’re gone, We’ll miss them. Those moments, everyday life, The man who cooks dinner nightly for his wife: Does she need Prince Charming or this Prince Real? The fr...
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Dante's Il Gatto Col Cappello: An English Translation
Rain fell, and the sun itself refused to show. My sister and I alone, through the window we stared: Nothing to do, we despaired, nowhere to go. A bump at the door for which we were unprepared, Into the hall stepped the Cat and he gave us a start. He pr...
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ODE TO JAMEY
ODE TO JAMEY (Too Little, Too Late) You told me one day of that fearful flowing, A chill of raw when your nerves are brushed; Whetted stones on skin hide your secrets in shells, Darkened waters flow rough over your unpolished life. A word, a song, a pa...