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Best Battlements Poems

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O'Er the Battlements I Do Roam
O’er the battlements I do roam 
in a place far away from my home.
Seeing first-hand the horrors of war
longing for peace from all the blood...

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Categories: battlements, war, home, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: battlements, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Son My Friend
Mourn not my Son... your Father's dead
And there's nothing to be done.
Do not mount the battlements in my defense
As the race was fairly won.

The kitchen...

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Categories: battlements, appreciation, death, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: battlements, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Be It Only By Dreams
With the onset of advancing age, so I find,        
A man grows weary of all mundane talk; ...

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Categories: battlements, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mediocrity Monstrosity
A glint in the black, like stars
    Pearly, polished, pointy peaks of a fiend
      Fangs of self-deprecation,...

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Categories: battlements, analogy, introspection, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ruin
It stood on the top of the hill
dominating all of its surrounds.
Its drawbridge these days lay open
spanning with ease the now dry moat.
Like a fairy...

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Categories: battlements, fantasy, grandson, imagery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member - Break Not a Flower Nor Inscribe a Stone -
I feel it so strongly deep inside the cry of your heart
It but echoes my souls endless fear of being apart 

Use your strength to...

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Categories: battlements, care, deep, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: battlements, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version
"Before The Gates Of Alahsar." 
By,
Michael .P. Clarke.

(Bardic Style)

(Original Short Version)

(Version-1)

Sweet Alahsar, thy golden crowns
adorned the sky of verdant blue,
sweet land of dream, throne of...

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Categories: battlements, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Towers and Bridges
III

But, of course, I had no dizzying towers                 ...

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Categories: battlements, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version - 7
7.

The Tigress stands at the side of Turvehr,
her head hung low, her face hidden by dark hair,
tears falling freely from her eyes,
in Heaven, the mighty...

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Categories: battlements, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version - 9
9.

Now a bolt of lightning plummets,
from Heavens own, mighty summits,
it does stay there, as it hits the ground,
as thunder roars, its mighty sound.
Up the bolt,...

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Categories: battlements, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The She-Devil
Born within the realm of hell's fire, spawned in the ashen dawning,
Between brimstone's sacred flame, and sulfur's earthen cauldrons,
Given the spark of life by the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: battlements, adventure, beauty, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bloody Tower
THE BLOODY TOWER

I am so trapped a phantom princess, on an ethereal plain, spiritually
Forgotten in isolation's domain, in hell's chamber of brick and mortar,
In this...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: battlements, betrayal, fantasy, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse

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