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(c)jerlin 14Nov12; Samila Beach, Thailand

This poem is written in ballad style. It employs cadence, rather than strict meter, to create evocative rhythms. As you read it aloud, you will notice the cadences and the textures built by sound effects like assonance, alliteration, and so on. Repetition works to create a longing, melancholy feeling in this ballad about a mysterious love by the shores of lovely Ireland.

additions: Senators Deb Fischer and Cindy Hyde-Smith, owners of cattle ranches who voted to put executioners on the US Supreme Court

Senator Joni Ernst, who castrated piglets as a child, was part of an illegal immoral war in Iraq, and voted to put executioners on the US Supreme Court