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All dead
Enter a dark
Netherworld to receive
Judgment from Pantheon below.
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Hail worn-out paths and beaten shore!
Mankind has forgotten war.

No longer fear a threat or more;
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Drifting! Massing! Rising!
Folding! Roiling! Dropping!
Crashing! Soaking! Pooling!
Ebbing! Leaving! Holding!
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[The verses are a series of related cinquains]

Winter
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[in Cinquain format]

Raven
Eve of dreary
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I sense
Peaceful being
When I gaze into your
Eyes: sparkling-hued orbs entrance my
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How bright is Mr. Knight
When standing hat in hand;
His kite might take up flight
With an overfilling band.
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Dawn was cool on a sunny morn,
Oh welcome the day Miss Rose was born!
Here in November,
I gladly remember.
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Listen!
Ye mighty to
Ozymandias of
Egypt: “Look on my works! Despair! ”-
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[The poem is a selection of cinquains as verses]

And Then She Smiled
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Slumber
With the Angels
My innocent babe;
Gather souls together, and sing
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Ancient China to us:

'Autumn
Rose, ' 'Moon Fairy, '
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So near
An oak stood I,
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Ever
More wander I
Through fields of thorns that rip
My gentle heart and bring my eyes
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I sense
Peaceful being
When I gaze into your
Eyes: sparkling-hued orbs entrance my
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Silence
Sudden pervades
The air when she appears:
Beauteous vision, presence of
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Royal
Andromeda,
Nebular child of Myth,
Beauteous charm of life-dazzle
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Sweet new
Style for a bard
Florentine: love exists
In hearts gentle, virtuous, and
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Daughter
Sweet of fragrant
Flower spirits, breath of
Sunshine, view of magic gold-us
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Twilight
Fired breeze whisks a
Madder-kinned aura through
Bright Crown's senses for sweet savour:
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