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Best Days Of Yore Poems

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Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: days of yore, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member I Am Me, Set Me Free
I am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From...

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Categories: days of yore, cancer, creation, environment, health,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Reflecting On Police Brutality
It was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion  
through southern Spain, across...

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Categories: days of yore, violence, prejudice,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Flame Once Burned
A flame once burned so brightly everything in sight 
seemed quite beautiful in its blinding light.

Everything I took for truth once upon a time
seemed to...

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Categories: days of yore, life, passion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Winds of Time
One day I was passing time
And wrote these words upon the lines,
I know not where they came you see
The Winds of Time were there for...

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Categories: days of yore, imagination, inspirational, visionary, me,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The View From Up Above
From high above the mighty eagles soar
and gaze with teary eyes upon the land;
a proud and peaceful nation thrived, before 
the bombs began to fall...

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Categories: days of yore, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Farewell To Winter, Spring Is In the Air
Ivory snowflakes still fall, yet Spring is in the air.
               I...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days of yore, beauty, seasons, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: days of yore, fantasy, imagination, me, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member First Snow
The first snow of the winter,
And it's really coming down.
Large geometric flakes,
Drift slowly to the ground.

Painting trees and fences,
In garlands of dazzling white.
Making all it...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days of yore, seasons, snow,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member What Fools
"You shall know the Truth, and the Truth
Shall make you free."


We wait for what will never happen;
the consequences of inaction
may overtake at any moment.
Vaguely felt...

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Categories: days of yore, angst, culture, freedom, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member School Supplies
I glanced out my window watchin' kids plod along to school today.
I recalled my school days and how things have changed along the way
I watched...

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Categories: days of yore, funny, school, school, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Conceit of Poetry
What is a dream 
if not reality's conceit?
What is reality 
if not a shadowy deceit?

The dream circle was unsealed 
when we were born
and dream-time filled...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days of yore, philosophy, universe,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Old River Bridge
The Old River Bridge

There’s an old river bridge outside my hometown.
I wonder if they’ll ever tear it down.
It’s always been a part of me
And it’s...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days of yore, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Falling Bridges
The greatest miracle in days of yore  
unsurpassed, two millennia past or more 
a carpenter by trade, Joseph by name
was betrothed to Mary, a...

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Categories: days of yore, angel, child, confusion, education,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Valkyrie
In days of yore, when Vikings vigorously reigned
Beauty of the Valkyrie, vixen of intoxicating dreams
The maidens chose a paladin who departed and gained
entrance into Valhalla,...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days of yore,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Reflection on the Important Things