Epigrams

The epigram is an ancient Greek form that brief expresses an idea in a witty way, often as a tombstone epitaph. They later spread through Europe, developing into a rhyming couplet in iambic meter.

Poems

1. 2025-11-28

   Nothing answers
   Fallen prayers.

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   Expanded form of the last full line of a Crapsey cinquain from the same day.

2. 2025-10-23

   Broken fences mend our bonds
   So feeble hearts grow strong.

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   Based on a fragment that was basically the first line.

3. 2025-04-18

   In tender hands a spider finds its way
   Then builds a web anew to catch its prey.

4. 2025-04-12

   The fools tie up their lacquered beaks;
   A king with jester's privilege speaks.

5. 2025-04-12

   Epigrams, you strive to lessen—
   Counting words that teach a lesson.

6. 2025-04-03

   Everything is older than old,
   If the story forgets to be told.