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Best Celt Poems

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Hiraeth of a Modern Celt
Upon the green hills of Cymru
I stand arrested by the veiw
of cryptic sea and ancient shore 
that stood ten thousand years before
they met my callow...

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Categories: celt, adventure, family, history, inspirational,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Your Walmart Girl the Celt Guitar - Heather Sings Version
YOUR WALMART GIRL
----verse 1
Sometimes some things just happen.
Sometimes we need a touch to help us get by.
When it's not there we wonder why.
I know your...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celt, best friend, confusion, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Scottish Hearts Are Singing
I love your heathered highlands,
steep cliffs and rugged islands,
hedges and gardens under
rainclouds of grey.
Old steeples rise above
those small rural towns I love;
your hillsides of sunny...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celt, patriotic,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Mad Secretary
THE MAD SECRETARY

Hunched over the computer, I am  mystical,
With mental white gloves and a karate belt - 
A daylight cursor, but on my bicycle,
A...

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Categories: celt, angel, career, caregiving, class,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Stalker
The Stalker

She sat quietly in her cottage house
I tried to be silent, not to rouse  
She was who she was, serene and my darkest...

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Categories: celt, beauty, gothic, green, imagination,
Form: Free verse



It Only Hurts Because It Rains
Wandering eyes piercing silent wounds
focusing on whatever temporarily resumed
wondering what havoc makes this love abound
never turning to look around
eyes only for each other
closer than a...

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Categories: celt, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only Black Roses Live Now - Act 1
Word has reached
A distant planet out their
Semaj, this ancient Celt
In ancestral despair

His droid Etto
Has bulletins relayed
The last human on earth
In final death display

Civilisation as he...

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Categories: celt, fantasy, placesdeath, world, death,
Form: Rhyme
Footpaths and Foresights
IN PRAISE OF FOOTPATHS
Across the land a web of footpaths weave
The veins that nourished nation’s interaction
Cross chalk down ridge, and sylvan lane, conceived
By feet of...

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Categories: celt, history,
Form: Sonnet
Captain Job Terry
Don’t you know Job Terry? 
I thought everybody knew Job Terry

My name is Captain Job Terry,
my people from Kerry
But I a Poughkeepsie Celt.
I make a...

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Categories: celt, adventure, allusion, celebrity, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Tuscany
Oscans, Ligures and the Apuli as known
Ancient Greek, Samnitics,  Sicanis and Celt
Indigenous tribes, one people with love grown
Capodanno Fiorentino o'er lands dwelt

Wine appellation of...

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Categories: celt, culture, people, pride,
Form: Rispetto
Brotherly Love--Cuchulainn's Crossing of the River
CUCHULAINN'S CROSSING OF THE RIVER  (see BROTHERLY LOVE  part 2)

When warriors chant the songs of war
And toast the friends here and beyond
They hide...

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Categories: celt, brother, fantasy, ireland, life,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Birth of Marseille
THE BIRTH OF MARSEILLE
This was the feast of a marriage decree,
first of his daughters to be,
but she must hide til the feasting was done,
before he'd...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celt, art, change, history,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your Favorite
The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver...

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Categories: celt, animal, cat, cute, dog,
Form: Limerick
Homeward Bound
The runic pattern cast upon the ground, 
That calls wandering Celt to journey home,
To sacred lands where mighty kings were crowned,
And there hearts dwell while...

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Categories: celt, faith, love,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member Mimicking Fame
MIMICKING FAME WITH DR. SEUSS

Dr Seuss,
You’re the man,
Let me try and mimic
You, if I can!
There’s a Zik,
In the Tick,
Of my Clock, 
And a Nouse,
In my...

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Categories: celt, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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