Best Conquest Poems

Cinco De Mayo, the fifth day of May, to all Mexican and Mexican-Americans, is a very special day,

It celebrates the Mexican's Armies, unlikely victory over France, The Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, was Napoleon's grab for Mexican lands,

At the time of this battle,...

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Dawn’s herald sounds forth,
Night’s ramparts are stormed,
Her daunting walls breached.

Westward she withdraws,
Her keep abandoned,
The conquest complete.

Day’s standard flies high,
Proclaiming rebirth,
Warming the chill land.


Written 13/04/2015
~Shane Cooper~
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When I saw them coming I knew what to do

Straightened out the white sheets and pulled my mask down, too.

When the doorbell rang I yanked it wide
 
Three sets of eyeballs stood there white eyed~

They didn't expect my ghostly "BOO"!



"Trick or Treat" one finally professed

My...

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I had read a short story by Alexander Pushkin once , about a greedy man , who was told 
that the total land area he could cover by galloping on horse back , between Sunrise and 
Sunset ,would become his !This man at great speed...

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All her years chaste, now gone and wasted
I swiftly put that innocence to death.
I couldn't tell you of what she tasted.
Because it was covered by Cuervo's Breath.

She was beautiful, and awfully sweet.
Alcohol, even makes the strong sometimes weak.
Shameful it was, that we should meet
End began,...

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A Conquest- Last line prompt





When ink of romance
subdues respect for nature,
Exploitation begins
treasures seem perpetual,

Obliterated thoughts
drop down the curtains,
Devastation knocks 
on constant failure to unveil,

A wake up call, wake up
with hunger to introspect,
Satiate this appetite
howbeit, the fancy foods,

A conquest .... 
for luscious bequests
bestowed by Him,
Instead of...

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No Conquest

Mankind has minded throughout history 
with what occurs when time wanes to an end.
Our death, life's final stage, a mystery, 
fills us with fear to which we all are kin.

With no regard for reason, right or sex 
death’s timing’s in discord with human plans,...

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‘May I take the liberty?’ used to be asked by polite old men,
Doffing their caps as required to a stranger to whom they were offering assistance.
‘May I take the liberty?’ used to be asked in gentle introduction,
When respect for others was the tool of choice...

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As best gesture of so-what-and-who-cares,

               she hikes her shoulders, taunting as she dares,

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Society’s lethal expectations stalk private yearns 
They creep and stab at me in an eye of lust and vehemence 
Emergent and muscular, they attack Akeley and fizz with amusement  
Looming in clouds of filthy fever they suffocate. 

Omnipotent and all-seeing, these demands haunt every...

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A Bloodless Conquest Underway
Armies of the world have United
All the military in common greed
Power-  in Weapons  is Authority 
Baying for blood- quite outdated
Patriots - …They saved their land 
Their citizens. …Future of Children
Made final sacrifice. ..They Returned in body bags
Brave and Poignant. …The...

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Backpacking
I search my truth
place unknown—
With abandon 
limbs roam  free
on brown pampas,
thirsting for newfound conquests.


Contest: Whitney 2
5 Sept 2017...

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I looked, behold, there stood a great white horse;
Its rider had a lethal, silent bow.
And on his head, a crown, rough-hewn and coarse,
And there he went, a-conquering his foe.

And lo, there came another horse, bright red;
Its rider reaped the peace and sowed discord
So great that...

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[paraphrase of a Svan folksong]


I, I am Queen Tamar
I raised myself to Heaven
I dug up a barren mountain
I left only a deep hole
I put the sword to Constantinople
I drove them into the sea
I made their lands my lands....

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Spies, scout out the Promised Land.
Let our eyes see what God has planned.
Never mind what He's already done,
Can we trust the powerful One?

When we saw the Anakites there,
The terror was too much to bear.
More numerous and taller,
Our confidence grew smaller.

Do not be terrified of them!
You...

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