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Bastille Poems - Poems about Bastille

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TIME
...Time isn’t static; it’s always dynamic. The flow of time can’t be reversed. It can only resolve certain issues. It soothes pain and heals many wounds. March with it, or else you’ll trail behind. ......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member July 14th
...They fought for Liberté, égalité et fraternité in a revolution against royal tyranny by a careless, selfish monarch. On July 14th, they stormed the Bastille in the first major act of violenc......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, history,
Form: Etheree
Emerald Iris Sea
...In the warmth of your gaze is where I want to be. On a journey, endless, under the seamless sky… Lost and adrift in your emerald iris sea. From the cold bastille of solitude, set me free, And f......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, allusion, beauty, love, relationship,
Form: Villanelle
Seven of September Brazil Independence Day
...The day is gone, we raised our arms, painted the face, we were exposed we went straight invade the Bastille stormed, Brasilia, tear down the Wall... ! We did nothing, and the game was crook......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, adventure, allegory, analogy, independence
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Back To Her
...After the Sunday service, searching back to her For a date. He will soon be walking back to her. Bottle rockets popping over the Sacre Coeur. She suddenly kissed him; he then leaning back to her......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, children, conflict, french, retirement,
Form: Ghazal



Premium Member Storming the Bastille 2021
...A tale of morality, behold the truth, I’m so important Doing the right thing, this liar brings out discordance Whatever it takes, expedience, just get the job done Top guns instruction,......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, abuse, allegory, allusion, america,
Form: Rhyme
Camille Desmoulins Fall of the Bastille
...Camille Desmoulins was a poet at the time of the French Revolution, his enthusiastic speeches were practically the trigger for the inspiring Revolution of other revolutions ... he acted together t......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, allusion, history, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Benefactor
...Please, Mr. Civil Leader, rule my life I don’t know how to take care of myself Limit my offspring, choose my wife Write me a pamphlet explaining my health I can’t wait to hear from my benefa......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, anger,
Form: Political Verse
Life, a Hurdle
...Like a newborn babe Girdled by A colony of ants, Like a bird in A wooden cage, Like a prisoner In the Bastille, Each human life Is ensnared with A great number Of hurdles: The path of life......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Do We Celebrate Bastille Day
...Fete Nationale finally came about on July 14th 1789 When the commoners stormed the Bastile so fine. Their crops had failed that summer, and it went to their head. They were spending ninety-percent......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
What We Leave Behind
...Too often someone stretches the truth until it becomes the lie and then defends its falsehood for all to hear and believe in but some wiser ones sense the truth that lay hidden grab it by its ......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, america,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Revolutionary Days
...Dressed for comfort and play worn blue jeans signature red jackets -- as red as the distinctive tricots of revolutionary Bastille days -- their slide whistles shrieking their drums bo......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, future, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song of San Francisco Hills
... This is about San Francisco,1967 Oh, yes that city had its own song! It was a siren's call that sang; "Here, Panagiota, is where you do belong!" And my dearest poets, the sirens cal......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, adventure, america, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Off With Her Head
...The wife of Louis, lavish Marie Antoinette Extravagantly led the country into debt. Designed to marry Austria with France, She led the hapless king a merry dance. Poor harvests afflicted the fa......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, betrayal,
Form: Clerihew
Bastille Day For Real
...Bastille Day for Real Jean Val Jean French "Mensch", Rescued "Freres" From a Societal Trench, Confounding the Monarchy With a "Monkey Wrench". Marie Antoinette's "Let Them Eat Cake", Only Insp......Read the rest...
Categories: bastille, anniversary, freedom, jewish, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme

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