Best Crusades Poems
Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)
...If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few
Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far surpassing our norm
Create......
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Categories:
crusades, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhythmic Perfection (Anapestic Trimeter)
...There's a river that twists in the mind
that I plunder and ravish with sieves,
on crusades to the summit of rhyme
where my Phoenix of tropes and schemes live.
In a war to free diction's fair Qu......
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Categories:
crusades, imagination, on writing and
Form:
Rhyme
An Unwritten Fairytale
...Inside an inkwell, lives a fairy tale
A classic, filled with love and misery
Where," Once upon a time" has long set sail
And "happy ever after's" yet to be
It's plot, a knight, once schooled in......
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Categories:
crusades, fantasy, fun, imagination, metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
Renaissance
...Take me back to a more romantic time
Of kings and castles and love sublime
When chivalry was in the air
Let me kiss the hand of my lady fair
I'll walk the land in days of yore
When tales wer......
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Categories:
crusades, fantasy, imagination, me, me,
Form:
Couplet
Paradise Now
...All you need is one word,
Erase just one word
from the minds of the people,
Rout out just one idea, one concept,
Eliminate 'Religion' from
the dictionary of mankind--
Man's stupendous and
gra......
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Categories:
crusades, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Of Love Perverse
...For you and only you, my love, I’ll wait.
I’ll wait through evening’s dusk to early dawn.
On corners or at stations; by my gate
I’ve waited - and at night with curtains drawn.
The hands......
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Categories:
crusades, love,
Form:
Sonnet
When Reason Goes Out the Window
...I find it curious that people will debate the nature of God, with one side saying it is irrelevant as He doesn't exist and the other sure they can pin down the nature, the complexity, of a Being so f......
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Categories:
crusades, angst, atheist, god, humanity,
Form:
Prose
Vultures
...It was not so
It was not so
Before the invasion of the vultures
In those days
When being black makes us thick
When our communion whispers across oceans
When our ties thrust distrust
When our dreams w......
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Categories:
crusades, history,
Form:
The Kaliedoscope
...No great structures, no crusades over mountains,
No wounds felled or tales of being unbeaten.
All around me is a lively choir of colours and images
Merging beautifully, all the visages and the mirage......
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Categories:
crusades, hope, introspection, peacelife,
Form:
Rhyme
Angles of Light
...The faiths that bind our righteous hearts
to the tenets of our devine
Principles placed to uphold our faith
are the grapes that grow from vine
Each woman and man has a light
they choose to......
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Categories:
crusades, faith, philosophygod, god, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Culling
...Culling
Back in the ancient long ago,
We had the great Crusades,
Men with red crosses on their chest,
Used swords against scimitar blades,
Todays evil ones would murder all,
Is death a disea......
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Categories:
crusades, adventure,
Form:
Ballade
Abortion of Twisted Minds
...The church judged my abortion
now it is my turn
crusades killed thousands
for Jesus
then Native Americans were slaughtered
in the name of Jesus
all for the almighty
I, who cried for ......
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Categories:
crusades, abortion, evil, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Mother Earth
...Billions of journeys round a fiery eye
This watery celestial traveler made.
Untiring, spiraling route through the sky
Always returned from yearly crusades.
She carried her children on top her bac......
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Categories:
crusades, mother, seasonsmay,
Form:
Sonnet
Tears of Jerusalem
...Mighty oars to take us away from our shores
Our horsemen marshal their men at arms
The trek is long, battles of the blood-soaked
Our swords we hold high
Above our heads, the cross guides us to r......
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Categories:
crusades, adventure, history, religion,
Form:
Light Verse
The Medieval Glory
...The era has many glorious phases and faces
when it began on the fall of the Roman empire
Age of Darkness seized war and fire
and time stirred diverse cultures and races
Different flavors were t......
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Categories:
crusades, education, history, time, ,
Form:
Rhyme