Triolets

My sons will learn to obey me
Now and forever more.
Through blood, sweat and tears it may be;
My sons will learn to obey me,
And all of the city shall see.
Of this I am sure:
My sons will learn to obey me
Now and forever more.

-oOo-

In this city of stone she breathed her last
Far from the sea.
She appeared as light shining through glass,
In this city of stone she breathed her last.
Through her frail body her spirit passed
Away from me.
In this city of stone she breathed her last
Far from the sea.

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Rubáiyát

Death comes to all men and all men must die,
'Tis young idealistic boys that do try
To die well, but they all fail at the last.
Death is a release as the flames rise up high!

Long has this kingdom
lacked a king, silently,
we stand in their place.

-oOo-

He thinks I do not
know: but I do. The Captain
desires my city.

-oOo-

At the end, she was
as white as the gulls from the
sea that she longed.

-oOo-

My sons, different
but so alike. The younger
has the elder’s gifts.

-oOo-

One lost, near death. One
lost, dead. Doom approaches,
but I stand and laugh.

-oOo-

The fire that burns, the
consuming flame, destroying
all that it touches.