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Classic poem of the day

Listen lordings both great and small,
I will tell you a wonder tale:
How Holy Church was brought in bale
cum magna injuria .

The greatest clerk in this land,
Thomas of Canterbury I understand:
Slain he was with wicked hand
malorum potentia .

The knights were sent from Harry ye King,
That day they did a wicked thing:
Wicked men without leasing
per regis imperia .

Before the altar he ......

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Member poem of the day

These are poems for fathers and grandfathers, written by Michael R. Burch.

Sunset
by Michael R. Burch
       
This poem is dedicated to my grandfather, George Edwin Hurt Sr.

Between the prophecies of morning
and twilight’s revelations of wonder,
the sky is ripped asunder.

The moon lurks in the clouds,
waiting, as if to plunder
the dusk of its lilac iridescence,

and in the bright-tentac...

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