Best Belshazzar Poems
Belshazzar - the Doomsayer's DirgeI feel Disturbed
with the callous call to arms
for vested gains
and rhetorical rants of raving men
ostentatiously out to save your souls
having pledged theirs to Lucifier's lien.
I see the city ablaze
with dreams of the denizens on the street
as they mindlessly move
to put their minds in front of...
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Categories:
belshazzar, allegory, allusion, future, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Eat, Drink and Be Merry the Night Belshazzar DiedThe Night Belshazzar Died…
The night when Belshazzar seen
God’s writing on the wall,
He did not know that soon
Babylon would FALL.
This king who thought he was so
“awesome and great.”
Didn’t know that death soon
would be his fate.
“Eat, drink and be merry”
was the motto of the day.
But God...
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Categories:
belshazzar, confusion, death, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Belshazzar DiedThe night when Belshazzar seen
God’s writing on the wall,
He did not know that soon
Babylon would FALL.
This king who thought he was so
“awesome and great.”
Didn’t know that death soon
would be his fate.
“Eat, drink and be merry”
was the motto of the day.
But God had something
else to...
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Categories:
belshazzar, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Belshazzar SestetBelshazzar had a feast
before seeing the writing on the wall,
Quickly,falling,from the greatest to the least,
for dead-men,don't walk tall-
When lives are on God's scale
Only the just,live to tell the tale.
This sestet inspired by Daniel 5
| Year Posted 2010...
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Categories:
belshazzar, bible, people,
Form:
Rhyme