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Best Crusade Poems

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Premium Member King Richard's Crusade
“Make love tonight as if it were your last
Then hold your youngest; memorize his face
Next time you see your sons, years may have passed
Hold fast...

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Categories: crusade, courage, war,
Form: Sonnet



The Knights Crusade
Dearest damsel, thou art my life
If thou want for food, it will always be there
I will offer confit and other gourmet fare

Whatever jewels ye desire...

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Categories: crusade, humor,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crusade, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: crusade, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Wish I Could

I wish l could bottle kindness and cuddles
In little coloured bottles happy and bright
To produce and share in abundance
This would be my plight

I would give...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crusade, change, universe, world,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Twisted Tale -Jane's Jewel-
Mardi Gras "The Medieval Story"  

On a hot, heavy night in Orleans,
Joan and Jane were seen rubbing chest on chest
An inviting, intimate moment, to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crusade, adventure, celebration, dark, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Female Warrior
Born to be a true warrior
never given the choice
Being muted as a child i 
was not allowed a voice

Growing into this woman
with everyday being a...

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Categories: crusade, conflict, courage, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet, No Longer Will I Sup At Your Banquet
My eyes were sorely struck when once they perceived
verity in your insightful words. Oh, how they grieved
when you chose to kneel low enough to kiss...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crusade, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Inherent Swimming
Stepping past the crater towards your door,
     I am reminded of warm days
surrendered in flowery abandon while
     brushing against cool veins of
leafy promise, requiring only the slightest
     compassion...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crusade, nature, war
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onward Christian Soldiers
Onward Christian Soldiers
(Chivalry Dead)

God’s crusade upon them laid
a stubborn suit of mail brocade.

Knights Templar, Teutonic thugs
Mercenaries out for blood.

In guarantee of resurrection. 
Skull bludgeoning insurrection.

For...

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Categories: crusade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Land, Your Place, Your Flesh -
Would you crusade to remote regions
in search of that timeless tomb, the one made of seasalt & sandstone,
to towns tempered by the terror of war,...

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Categories: crusade, faith, prayer,
Form: Didactic
Ode To the End of War
Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No...

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Categories: crusade, friendship, war,
Form: Epic
Indiana Jones
The passionate...pulsating rhythm,
   Of your tasty...temple of doom.
      Pounds a pummeling throb,
      ...

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Categories: crusade, adventure, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Time For Us
Let us escape from the eyes of judgement
to a province where nothing is forbidden.
Where lovers are no longer hidden,
who roam freely under lustrous stars.

Oh beloved,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crusade, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Night Burns
When night burns starless like a tomb,
shadow exults the dark and gloom.
Our souls hone fears sharp as a blade,
and every path holds certain doom.

To dare...

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Categories: crusade, fear, moon, night,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things