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Best Beheaded Poems

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Premium Member Ragnarok: the Storm
With the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle

In the forest crows the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beheaded, weather,
Form: Epyllion



Premium Member The Mythology of Pegasus
Born from the neck of his beheaded mother,
as her blood soaked the ground,
he rose and soared from the gore,
a beautiful winged stallion
most wondrous and divine...

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Categories: beheaded, mythology,
Form: Free verse
A Sword of the Heavens Did Glean
A sword of the heavens did glean

From railings and arbors 
of dead thorn and bramble,
where ghostly reminders remain

Fall droplets of blood ‘pon
a crimson embroider
 left...

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Categories: beheaded, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chloee and Reginald the Stand Down Dachshund Comedians
One

Chloee? Yes Reginald! 
Why do they call us Dachshunds, Wiener Dogs?
Maybe they call you a Wiener Reginald!
You cut me off at the legs with that one...

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Categories: beheaded, funny, humor, humorous, roses
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Duel At Dusk
The sun was setting, as it usually does
The town a ghost town, the main street all but silenced
The wind blowing leaves and dreams to and...

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Categories: beheaded, beauty, dream, gothic, writing,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Justice For Cecil the Lion
Cecil the lion of Zimbabwe, famous and beloved,
Shot by a bow hunter after being lured from his home;
It took Cecil forty hours to die, how...

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Categories: beheaded, anger, animal, beautiful, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Henry the Eighth
Maidens, bloody maidens, I had me six of ‘em wenches, ye knowest
Fullsome Catherine of Aragon wrought havoc ‘tween me and the Pope
Besought a divorce, split...

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Categories: beheaded, historyme, age, age, body,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Go Ask Alice
Ah, Divine influence, it has come to many, so they say,
as to their nameless or named God’s they do pray.
The light came to Carroll, he...

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Categories: beheaded, allegory, devotion, fantasy, introspectionmen,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Male Bonding
Apart from our nice 3 piece suite the cat has clawed and shredded
	 it's knocked over a figurine that lies there prone, beheaded.
	I'm quite adept...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beheaded, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Summer Rain
Tattered Petals: Wounded Heart

Tattered on the garden path are petals
from roses, beheaded by Summer rain
when storm clouds emptied their brimming kettles

In the garden, my tender...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beheaded, lost love, rain, rose,
Form: Ottava rima
Power Rules
In this world
Power rules
What would have happened
If Germany won WWII in Europe?
If Japan won WWII in Pacific?

Jewes would have disappeared 
On this planet
Japan would have...

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Categories: beheaded, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 911 We Will Never Forget
To *key3 

How bad can it get, don't ask me that question 
I'm on the 97th floor terrified, 
hanging from a window, gasping for breath
You...

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Categories: beheaded, america, murder, truth,
Form: Free verse
When Darkness Steals Her Light
Babies freezing to death in Syria
Being chopped to bits in Africa
Beheaded in Mexico
Shot through their tiny hearts in America
Starving all around this world
So what is...

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Categories: beheaded, art, baby, cancer,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Refurbished Fairy Tales: Cinderella, If the Shoe Fits Part Three
The happily ever after...

He searched the kingdom for a fortnight 'til all saddle sore and weary,
With his eyes bloodshot and bleary,
The prince arrived at the...

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Categories: beheaded, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In Memoriam, Nine Eleven


          

9/11... In MEMORIAM.

The thousands of valuable people in an instant we lost!
Twas a most painful,...

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Categories: beheaded, america, courage, inspiration, leadership,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things