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Best Ancient Times Poems

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Premium Member Before Ancient Times
No script
belonging one’s civilization
no history
anyone can recall,
only the enduring solid stone blocks
someone created to form this ancient wall.
A relic unknowingly
left to the woodland undergrowth
and those
that...

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Categories: ancient times, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dreams of India
Dreams of India

Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.

I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...

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Categories: ancient times, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love
I Love . . .

to snuggle in my bed, no one around,
the purring of my cat the only sound.
And whether near a window streaming light
or...

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Categories: ancient times, books,
Form: Rhyme
In the Name of Dove -With Ram R V
little Rock
               Doves at my feet
     ...

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Categories: ancient times, appreciation, bird, , cute,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse
Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse

Sonnet I

I saw morn's soft hands stretching to touch bright moonlight
Is but a fleeting blink betwixt man's death and birth
Dark...

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Categories: ancient times, art, creation, dedication, deep,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Paper Clip
The Paper Clip

They were such a lovely couple
From a very very rich family
I was invited to
The birthday party

She was all of three
Adorable and soon ever...

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Categories: ancient times, appreciation, beauty, birthday, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stunning Revelations From Ancient Maps
Professor Hapgood’s studies on ancient maps were fixed
Einstein said his theories should be added to history’s mix
Perhaps it proved too big a leap for other...

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Categories: ancient times, history, science, urbanlost, lost,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 2
You know sailor man,
You woke the spirit in me
I thought you were drunken and carefree
I could not hope or dream
The whore of the seas must...

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Categories: ancient times, allegory, angel, destiny, french,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am An Owl
I hunt my prey, late dusk or night
     With wings so quiet in my flight
It's hard to see me up in...

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Categories: ancient times, bird, imagery, tribute,
Form: Personification
Achilles and the Tortoise
In ancient times as told in rhymes 
    there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead 
   ...

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Categories: ancient times, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Consume Me
Reveled in ancient times, words escape from the crevices of nature
Through soils that many have tread
The living and the dead
Eat everything and take a great...

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Categories: ancient times, death, fear, friendship, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goethe's Path
I once stepped into a labyrinth, that grew upon the crest

The unraveled trail through silver pines, where ferns and grasses wept,
Where birdsongs rose, from scattered...

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Categories: ancient times, nature, riddle,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Verdant Pastures
Horses in battle with valor showed
 In ancient times when conflicts rose
 On mighty steeds warriors rode
 Swords at the ready to vanquish foes

 Modern...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ancient times, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Kiss Paper Goodbye -
An ocean of papers
         A collection of a lifetime
        ...

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Categories: ancient times, goodbye, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, a Collaboration With Vladislav Raven
The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, 
A Collaboration With Vladislav Raven

Part (1.)

Biding his time, as each day wrangles its hours away
his soul resting...

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Categories: ancient times, art, courage, history, leadership,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs