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Best Epic Poem Poems

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Premium Member Poetry Potpourri
I smell something so beautiful!
Many different fragrances are drifting toward me.
So many sachets of poetry are prettily displayed.
Such visual delights!
I stoop to relish one -...

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Categories: epic poem, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Let Me Write You Something.
Let me write you a poem.
A poem so great Bukowski would give me a hats off-
And hand me a beer.
A poem so well-written, John Mayer...

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Categories: epic poem, loveme, write, me, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Armadilly Billy, the Slingshot Kidster
Armadilly came galloping into Troll Lake, bent on seeking a new life, to unwind.
He’d rode out of the Badlands, leaving only a trail of blowing...

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Categories: epic poem, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Salvation
Salvation…

The nightingale was singing to the moonlight. 
The moonlight was showing off all of its bright.
He was singing as though he knew the right path,
Showing...

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Categories: epic poem, allusion, destiny, solitude,
Form: Qasida
Premium Member Tanabata-W
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love...

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Categories: epic poem, stars,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Gilgamesh
GILGAMESH . . .  

Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk

So the people...

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Categories: epic poem, adventure, best friend, brother,
Form: Epic
Love
Love, is a state of mind
Love, how you feel inside
Love, can also be blind
Love, a roaller coaser ride
Love, the ultermate high
Love, for which we yearn
Love,...

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Categories: epic poem, write,
Form: Rhyme
The River Styx
Atmospheres of the weary tears that flow through the river Styx
Bonded by the watchful eye for Hades is in the molten mix

Cerberus is in his...

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Categories: epic poem, analogy, deep, evil, mythology,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ice King
from parents' great love
Blizz was born with warmest heart
conquers cold and dark

he wasn’t suckled
he loved iced pacifier
no baby’s bottle

ice vies.. throbs his grips…
numbs, writhes…never out...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epic poem, strength,
Form: Epic
The Epic of the Heart
You are not ……….. in childhood days
……….. A girl to play doll,
You are ……………… of a moon night
…….. A traveler of a hard way.

You are...

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Categories: epic poem, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miracle of Noel
While boughs and tinsels glide on trimmings
along a fireplace by the hall, the lemon-drop scent
of pine thrills : the air is cold; hearts are warm....

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Categories: epic poem, christmas, holiday, joy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed
Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed

Tyrian sails across stormy seas sailed,
and a bold prince they deliver
At every port cheerily he was hailed,
as an arrow straight...

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Categories: epic poem, conflict, history, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Babushka
Babushka


The whole village busy looking at the new star
*Babushka busy cleaning her house entire
So busy to tidy her house failed to hear
The sounds of the...

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Categories: epic poem, god,
Form: Epic
The Parents In Rhymes: Their Life, Death and Times
THE PARENTS IN RHYMES: THEIR LIFE, DEATH AND TIMES

BY JULIAN BOWMAN

 
THE PROLOGUE

1

Ten months apart, both parents dead
Their stories swirling in my head;
Memories I cannot...

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Categories: epic poem, abuse, bereavement, family, father,
Form: Epic
Premium Member By the Book
By The Book 
(a monoku series)

someone once called me a walking dictionary     they must think i'm thick

i have been told that...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epic poem, books,
Form: Monoku

Book: Shattered Sighs