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Alexander Poems - Poems about Alexander

Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch
Habit is Heaven's tame redress: it tugs down the skirts of Happiness. —Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch Till, conquered by gusts of cold air, as Winter approaches, I find, on a branch that is otherwise bare, trembling, a leaf left behind. —Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch Whom to love, to trust and treasure, who won’t betray us in the end? Whose...

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Categories: alexander, dream, heaven, life, love,
Form: Free verse
The Singer
In glittering lights, she steps on the stage, Her voice soars high, yet echoes with despair, The vibrant crowd but masks a heart’s great cage. She left her love, the warmth of their shared page, To chase the dream, to breathe the fervent air, In glittering lights, she steps on the stage. The songs of youth, sweet...

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Categories: alexander, angst, song, woman,
Form: Villanelle



IRON MAIDEN
Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri IRON MAIDEN Iron maiden was she fathered from loins of Zeus flow free ~ surrounded by swords steely three, icicle aura bounded hounded innocence thorned crowned exiled white mane this maiden iron clad sane became She ran in plain rain on grassy hill for all to see glistening glaring flaring Sekmet at her shoulder a...

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Categories: alexander, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Ballad of Prince Alexander and Ramira
Sings the story at twilight When the moon is just rising, Sings a simple troubadour The short tale of life. How a fine boy, Born in a palace, A palace like crystal, Became a proud man. * You were born on a bed of flowers, Beside you, your father the king, Your mother, the queen And you,...

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Categories: alexander, beauty, cute love, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alexander Buffalo
Alexander buffalo can’t dance even for grass. His imbecilic jitterbug keeps leaving many nimble organists perplexed Quickstepping really scares the unprepared viewer While Xander yells, ‘Zumba!’...

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Categories: alexander, dance,
Form: ABC



Alexander Michael
We have this little fellow just come into this world He’s so small and precious so easy to be held His mum Samantha and dad Simon are so very proud With all the love they have for him we shout out aloud As grandparents Michael, Hazel, Marjory and Paul We line up together professing love for them one and...

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Categories: alexander, birth, boy, grandparents, grandson,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Dr Eben Alexander
With his neocortex severed God within was yet revered Check out Dr. Eben Alexander’s story Revealing clear truth in full glory Explore the truth with an open mind Leaving imagined knowing behind...

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Categories: alexander, death, deep, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus, Ruler of the Greek gods whereupon the people did deduce, That he was a hero, a god somebody remarkable. In fact, he was...

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Categories: alexander, horse,
Form: Narrative
Alexander Kielland
Alexander Kielland a Norwegian writer regarded as a fine author, if not the top drawer, but somewhere in the middle, one does not need to stretch up or bend low to read his work. I read his books when sitting in the library, skiving as my teacher would have said After seven years we, who didn't have...

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Categories: alexander, books, confusion, deep,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Eben Alexander
near death experiences compel us to relook at our beliefs take the case of Eben Alexander hard nosed neuro surgeon with his cortex fully severed he yet returned healed speaking of angels love alone is real is the message echoed hello! is humanity listening...

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Categories: alexander, death, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thank You Alexander Mcqueen
quintessential monarch Barbie doll model wore ultimate gown fashioned by the ultimate dresser took fashion week to a whole new level thank you Alexander McQueen for making this vision possible...

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Categories: alexander, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Discord and Peace
When conflicts raise its ugly head real soon, our nations won’t inevitably swoon; a time that real détente and peace attune. Some people still record the slights most ever stored. Thus escalate discord, their armies can’t be bored. But bearing painful past in mind, endowed ensuing loss with angst, so many bowed with hidden resentment and furrow browed. In corners hide...

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Categories: alexander, analogy, anger, angst, children,
Form: Ekphrasis
Diogenes and Alexander
Diogenes, philosopher in Greece, was said to be a dawdler. "Devil finds some seedy work for idle hands, don´t fleece our youth!" He saw the walls in people´s minds who all declined his odd and frugal life. He lived on bread and water, beans and fish, without belongings, even without wife. King Alexander promised a free wish: "Ask anything of me, so make...

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Categories: alexander, history, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Alexander Lukashenko
Most welcome raza come here Refugees,I invite you in belarus We will give you wire cutters You just have to cut the wires There are no rules in dirty politics Cross the border and go into Poland Save your lives or freeze to death... Note.Dalta rasha immigrants mala rauwra....

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Categories: alexander, body, games, pashto, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alexander the Great
Inheriting awful army from his father, Alexander became his life-script’s author; Schooled by best of philosophers in history, Gaining in all arts sky-high mastery; At the slaughter of his father by an enemy, In a wedding of the very royal family; Murdering many to capture his power, Fighting wars with half-mother and sister; Suppressing many a mighty revolt, To tribes, states and kingdoms putting...

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Categories: alexander, irony, life, power, strength,
Form: Free verse

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