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Anthem for Doomed RemembranceWhat passing grief for those who fall in battle? / Only the merest murmur of the press / A paragraph between the tittle tattle
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Nov 13, 2010
Epigram 101An epigram's a scorpion thing: / A compact body and a potent sting
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Oct 25, 2009
Haiku 101Now it's haiku time / Seventeen syllables dis- / -persed across three lines
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Oct 25, 2009
If... (2010)If you can keep your feet upon the flat ground / And draw the line at frivolous ideals / And tell yourself this downhill train can turn round
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May 3, 2010
Rondeau Redoublé: The Shoulders of GiantsRead Shakespeare and Milton and all of the rest / Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth are some of the best / Read Ted Hughes and Sylvia, Motion, Duffy
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Oct 7, 2009
Sonnet 101A sonnet's what this is, that much is plain / There really isn't any need to stare / Its introduction's made in this quatrain
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Oct 21, 2009
Sonnet: PhoenixI still recall when I first saw you fly / Lifting yourself on wings that burned so bright / You traced your path across my darkening sky
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Mar 6, 2010
Sonnet: The EditorIncompetent, corrupt and on the make, / You know all politicians are the same / You know this public service thing's a fake,
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Apr 25, 2010
Triolet 101A triolet's first line echoes throughout / Its second line is also heard again / As if (within a cave) it was a shout
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Mar 26, 2010
Villanelle 101Cling to your rhyme through high water and hell / The theme is set up in the opening line / That's what it takes to write a villanelle
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Oct 21, 2009
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