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10 Different Types Of Poetry - Catalog Your Poems

My 10 Different Types Of Poetry - Catalog Your Poems - article is a "how to" on recognizing the many different styles there are; plus it points out "what" each style consists of; IE no. of words, no. of lines, type - an ode or a ballad etc.

129 comments    poetry poem poems
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Weird but True: Strange and Unusual Tombstones

As a Catholic who is also a firm believer in reincarnation, I do not think that our final resting place is a hole in the ground at a plot in a cemetery -- and yet I have always been drawn to these locations. ...

20 comments    entertainment cemetery markers
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Examples of Funny and Bizarre Epitaphs

Quoted here are some of the funniest and most bizarre epitaphs I have come across. I am sure they will make you smile too, and I would love to hear of any others you may know of.

133 comments    family funny literature
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He said, "No snow." A collection of contemporary poems.

A narrative poem relies on character and conflict to create story. Jack had an early meeting so I walked the dogs alone at sunrise. I saw no other walkers. Choosing a path different from the one we normally walk, my Keens crunched crusty...

10 comments    contest mantra epitaph
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Fun With Gravestones and Tombstone Sayings: Kill Your Friends and Enemies

Most people, I think, have at some time contemplated their tombstone and attempted to write an epitaph. Now, have fun doing it for yourself, your friends, and your enemies.

150 comments    humor tombstones gravestones
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Underground Poetry. Suicide. No Second Chance.

This is an epitaph... An epitaph born of sadness and a need to understand. An epitaph to a friend whose cry for help went on years, but wasn't heard until it was too late... this epitaph is for all the others; his family of friends. For blood...

11 comments    death suicide sorrow
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Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA.

The architecture is beautiful--obelisks, statues and carved monuments in marble, granite and other types of stone are prime examples of the styles seen in Victorian garden cemeteries across the country and in the UK. Historic Mount Vernon Cemetery...

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Amazing grave stones

  AMAZING GRAVESTONES   1  .Can you guess on who's tomb is written: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288….? Yes, it is Ludolph van Ceulen, who died from unknown causes and who wants his...

4 comments    life religion arts
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Morality and Transgression in Spoon River

   Imagine this: The son of a drunk and a sexually frustrated nag knocks up the millner’s daughter, then runs off to see the world. He leaves behind the pining schoolmistress who loves him and writes to...

0 comments    life poetry sex
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Epitaph (Poem)

Coloma Cemetery-Coloma, CA Don't cry for me, I have not gone; Although you don't see me, my soul lives on. I survive in everything I once held dear; I'll never leave you, so have no fear. Think of me simply with a smile, Even though I...

3 comments    life poetry poem
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