Best Ferryman Poems
My Son My Friend
...Mourn not my Son... your Father's dead
And there's nothing to be done.
Do not mount the battlements in my defense
As the race was fairly won.
The kitchen table has not been set...
My chair lie......
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Categories:
ferryman, appreciation, death, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
...Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)
Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they blame
looking at the he......
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Categories:
ferryman, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hidden Garden In My Winter Forest
...
"The Hidden Garden in My Winter Forest"
First you must find the steps
Covered in wet moss, fog and cobwebs
It’s not easy to find,
the Hidden ......
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Categories:
ferryman, birth, daughter, death, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The River
...Before the weary pilgrim, flowed a river fair and wide
The way was filled with danger, he couldn't cross the other side;
So the pilgrim sought another to be his expert guide
With a boat that could t......
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Categories:
ferryman, life, boat, journey, river,
Form:
Rhyme
Fata Morgana
...
"Fata Morgana"
feet hardly touch the ocean
when silent stars of no voice
transmit words to pay the ferryman
on the water no reflection
gently the sun waves smiling as......
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Categories:
ferryman, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Sacrificial Burn
...
“The Sacrificial Burn”, a very short story of a pyromaniac, who loved the Light too much.
A writer’s journey. Perhaps it’s about life. Perhaps it’s about death. Perhaps it’s abo......
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Categories:
ferryman, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
A Merry Band of Adventurers Part 1 of 2
...There Are A Thousand Treasures Of Kings
Worth More, Than All The Wealth, There Could Be !
Some Say, It’s In A Kingdom Of Dreams
Others Say, It’s As Real As You & Me
The Legend Says, There’s A Kingdo......
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Categories:
ferryman, adventure, allegory, dedication, fantasy,
Form:
Light Verse
Gilgamesh
...
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Uruk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out Gilgamesh, without any further ado
......
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Categories:
ferryman, adventure, best friend, brother,
Form:
Epic
I Care Not a Fat Hairy Fig
...21.
I care not a fat hairy fig
For your task to decimate
And predicate my world
With such villainy and hate.
You evaporate the sunshine.
You bring nigh the distant gloom.
Like a pestiferou......
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Categories:
ferryman, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
A Voice From Beyond
...To speak for those, who no longer have a voice,
were I to get it wrong, would they really have a choice?
No.., they didn't choose me as spokesperson, why would they?
I am not clairvoyant.
But t......
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Categories:
ferryman, angel, brother, grief, i
Form:
Free verse
Lucy In the Sky
...Have you ever listened to Rock Me Amadeus on Karaoke
I would rather be a Bat Out Of Hell on my Stairway To Heaven
And that is what they will have to sing when my box gets lowered
Sunk into e......
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Categories:
ferryman, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
RIVERBANK
...RIVERBANK
The river of life flows fast toward the weir
This scene is now reality, not a pantomime
So smile for the ferryman as he draws near
Is that sweet music that you can now hear
It is c......
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Categories:
ferryman, goodbye, judgement, mythology, symbolism,
Form:
Villanelle
Traumgottin: the Heart Is a Crater
...
"In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of t......
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Categories:
ferryman, dark, hurt, love, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
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 bliss as he watch’s the grotesque gates of hell
Death......
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Categories:
ferryman, analogy, deep, evil, mythology,
Form:
Couplet
Burning Bushes Treacherous Cargo
...
"Burning Bushes Treacherous Cargo"
They say hell
is on fire
but there in
The Lawrence Forest
exist many,
burning bushes
waiting on deliverance
delivering messa......
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Categories:
ferryman, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative