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Best Acclamation Poems


The Acclamation of Young Adrian
Here lies the grave of the priest Adrian
The wisest and wittiest of all men
Stole away from our world at a green age
His heavenly heart ripped from the rib cage
By the malicious son of his mother
Something of a fiend, nothing of a brother
Caught dead in a...

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Categories: acclamation, death
Form: Heroic Couplet
With What Unspeakable Anguish
Oh! With what unspeakable anguish
Do I regret the vocation
I came so close 
And so oft to having
The sweet acclamation
That might have been mine.

Had I tried and failed,
That would scarcely concern me,
Yet, I squandered my resources
Time and time again,
And failed so unnecessarily,
That is what so torments...

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Categories: acclamation, angst, career, life, me,
Form: Free verse

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