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Best Beowulf Poems

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Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly...

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Categories: beowulf, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member For Chan Hurst - a Life Too Brief
With these twelve words...

art has no restrains 
there is nothing that can chain it down
no fabric that can not be broken from.

*FoRm?
>that de...pe...nd...s.<
WHAT duz iT reSEMble
fOrM...

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Categories: beowulf, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeds of Enchantment
Inside my mailbox late last month; nine packs of seeds - a mystery!
I hadn't ordered anything, but curious was I to see
what might become of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beowulf, flower, muse, mystery, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Believe In Your Poetry
You must believe, to have your poetic 
soul become reality.
Unlike any other, I hope you are!!
Dull, Beowulf poetry do not re-create.
Speak your soul, whatever that...

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Categories: beowulf, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Eulogy For Frank
My father died prematurely while away on 
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart  
I never doubted he loved me,...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beowulf, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



An Epic Woman
An Epic Woman  

Woman tell me your thoughts
Shall I be the fool and you the teacher?
Am I your Adonis, or do you see a...

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Categories: beowulf, fantasy, love, me, woman,
Form: Classicism
Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Pier

I remember watching 
the ocean roll on the shore,
wave after wave, 
crashing down on the solid sand
and I idly staring back
wondering if the...

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Categories: beowulf, sociallight, history, light,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fertile Crescent, Iii
Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience

The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed

Where early mans' dawn is, 
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me...

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beowulf, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
Fertile Crescent, Ii
Fertile Crescent
Ghosts of pharaohs
Branded timeless in stone
Reigning order
Condemning the vilified,
as it is published by
The Royal Geographical Society:
Syria as the Gateway between East and West
Leonard Woolley
The...

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beowulf, war,
Form: Prose
Oh Denmark
Oh,Denmark 
There is a dragon still alive a live 
With all the gold
I hope that Beowulf will finally have his day 
Heorot will help the...

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Categories: beowulf, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Submerge
Dipping into Beowulf with Grendel,
  and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales;
  Wading into Paradise with Milton,
  then submerging with the Bard:
  Sinking deep...

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Categories: beowulf, ocean, poetry, poets, voyage,
Form: Sonnet
Hot Dogs With No Buns
I should have tattoos
I should have a woman
instead I carry a purse full of empty.

Thats right-return me back to the womb
away from Bad tv
 ...

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Categories: beowulf, angst
Form: Free verse
The Whole Mad Swirl
I was out of control, spinning 
on the whirligig of youth, 
giddy to be caught 
in what Kerouac called 
"the whole mad swirl
of everything to...

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Categories: beowulf, faith, family,
Form: Blank verse
Brownian Movement Writ Large
Akin to daffodils got to puff the magic dragon GoDaddy seed achieve
visibly absent pride and prejudice where aggrieve
ment unseen, as careening human bits believe
where forebears...

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Categories: beowulf, adventure, age, allusion, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Power
There is a man and there are worms,
We are the worms my brethren,
Beautiful and perverse, wicked and evil, depraved and unjust,
Good and righteous and wonderful,...

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Categories: beowulf, jesus,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs