Couplet Poems

The morning rays of the Sun cling
On the upper bow of the Rainbow
Emerge after a moment ‘s dusk
Brown Pelicans and Western Gulls
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Part I

INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a true Taste is as rare to be found as a true Genius. That most men are born with some Taste, but spoiled by false education. The multitude of Critics, and causes of them. That we are to study our own Taste, and know the limits of it. Nature the best guide of judgment. Improved by Art and rules, which are but methodized Nature. Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets. That therefore the ancients are necessary to be studied by a Critic, particularly Homer and Virgil. Of licenses, and the use of them by the ancients. Reverence due to the ancients, and praise of them.
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A Recipe(Uneven Couplet) -
The uneven couplet is paired lines of different length
rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered.
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Roses, rooted warm in earth,
Bud in rhyme, another age;
Lilies know a ghostly birth
Strewn along a patterned page;
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This Sonnet is in the popular Petrarchan Form

I behold thy love as beautiful thing,
In my wrecked heart, a pleasure garden,
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Heroic Couplet Form On Mending Self
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Now neighbors are too far
And have closed the door
So there is a tone of horror
Echoing no more, no more
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Forget-me-not, I felt how fair you be
the pleasing mien of you still haunts my eyes
though I must stay away from where love lies
so many flies they make it hard to see
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To meet, to know, to love--and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
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Why is this sonnet form so dear to me?
this silent cloister of the singing heart
where I may be myself in sanctity
yet meet beloved strangers there in art;
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Huzza! Hodgson, we are going,
Our embargo's off at last;
Favourable breezes blowing
Bend the canvass o'er the mast.
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Who stop bursting an atom bomb?
A bit of sense from the brain,
Who help bursting an atom bomb?
A bit of sense from the same brain,
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Though the attackers are many in number
The escaper is courageous and clever
So the attackers have failed to harm that
The escaper has befooled them in fact
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Fire is empowered to burn
The things come in relation,
But the wise keep themselves
Far from fiery evil occurrence,
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One evening on the banks of the river, I saw the LIFE
Flying like a bird, trying to cross the horizon.

One evening in a flower garden, I saw the LIFE,
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in thoughts of you, peace found
in surrender, bliss unbound...

21dec2009
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A Modern Talking Bird
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A modern talking bird
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Our bard, to modern epilogue a foe,
Thinks such mean mirth but deadens generous woe;
Dispels in idle air the moral sigh,
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As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew
From Nature, I believe 'em true:
They argue no corrupted mind
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I
A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl,
No, like a drunkard's last half-dollar
Shoved on the polished bar of the eastern hill-range,
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The Triune(Chained Threesome Sonnet)

Chained Sonnet--a quatorzain, using any sonnet form
Each line begins with the end word of the previous line
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11 Terrace Pastime

About fifty crows crying around
Is Saturn in transit battle against me?
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Funeral Couplets:

At the Huanghuagang Martyrs' Graves in Canton, China, Huang Xing, the surviving 'Chief Commander' of the failed Third Rebellion in Canton (on April 27,1911) , wrote the following Obituary Couplet for his fallen patriotic comrades:
(The following Couplet translated by Frank C Yue)
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BMW. Benz. Mazda

The PRECIOUS HORSE GALLOPS as if on wings,
Making its rider the proud WINNER IN ALL THINGS!
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BMW. Benz. Mazda

The PRECIOUS HORSE GALLOPS as if on wings,
Making its rider the proud WINNER IN ALL THINGS!
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Get-Well Soon Couplet
- by Roland Pong

Wish you a very speedy recovery!
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"2,3,4,5; 6,7,8,9": An Odd Encoded Homonym-Omission Couplet
- by LU MENGZHENG

"Two, Three, Four, Five,
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"2,3,4,5; 6,7,8,9":
An Odd Encoded Homonym-Omission Couplet
- by LU MENGZHENG (946-1011)
- Translated by Frank C Yue
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A UNIQUE 'FIVE-ELEMENT' COUPLET
-by CHEN ZHIXIN (1614-1692)
-Translated by Frank C Yue
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Funny Couplet
-(allegedly) by (a youthful)OUYANG XIU (1007-1072)
-Translated by Frank C Yue
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