Best Flagon Poems
Love Between Dragon and Swan...She danced with grace, as a swan
He was inflamed, a roaring dragon
She swayed, a willow upon the lawn
He sipped warm wine from his flagon
With parted lips and feline eyes
She drew the brea......
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Categories:
flagon, romantic,
Form:
Romanticism
How Jan and Lin Slayed the Dragon...Two ladies named Jan and named Lin
professed a forgivable sin
they cornered a dragon
wrung her in a flagon
and gave her away as cheap gin
The old dragon's name was Jooling
who had a h......
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Categories:
flagon, fantasy, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Icons Set In Stone...How firmly they stand,
the spires of history
that no one can destroy.
What a curious melange
of hate and love
and yesterday's antipathy.
Indifferent they are,
leaving us their basic legacy--
shining......
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Categories:
flagon, time,
Form:
Free verse
Egg-Strapolations 2...“How long has he been here?” said the other voice which Dumpty could see now that the dawn light started to grow, belonged to a largish Owl perched on a tree branch, near the sleeping cat. “Oh, I dra......
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Categories:
flagon, anti bullying,
Form:
Narrative
Egg-Strapolations 4...Now that the Owl was sleeping Dumpty felt a bit restless, which was hardly surprising considering he was a ghost, he wandered over again to the waters edge, and had a look at the large flagon that th......
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Categories:
flagon, anti bullying,
Form:
Narrative
I Dream of Andromeda...Aethiopia is a land of exquisite beauty,
Inhabited by a princess worthy of its charms.
And the king her father thought it his duty
To boast of her glamour in spite of envious alarms.
So the lovely An......
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Categories:
flagon, adventure, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Wedding In Legerdemain...Ye guys/gals, drama requiring attention spins in Legerdemain.
There dwells within the caves of Underhill,
a legendary leprechaun lass named Phyll.
She keeps a pet dragon with wings of three;
sh......
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Categories:
flagon, 11th grade, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Verse
Thirty-Two...from island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
......
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Categories:
flagon, ireland, nonsense,
Form:
Verse
Grog...Grog
Gulping down a flagon
Gives one a gibbous glow.
Gather 'round ye hardies,
Grab one and have a go.
Ghostly foam and farting
Gnomes bilge one gushing flow.
Garish gaffe.........
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Categories:
flagon, drink, life, satire,
Form:
Verse
The Corn You Call Maize...I adore this corn which you call maize,
In my hand its cob I hold my eyes dilated in paraphrase,
In my mouth its offsprings I chew,
My teeth gliding through a well arranged maze,
Fresh corn harbo......
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Categories:
flagon, nature,
Form:
Epic
Guinness Interruptus...Guinness Interruptus
The sweet lass he was chasing was Finnish
but like Popeye he needed his spinach
to build up his strength
in longing and length
so he stopped for a flagon of Guinness
......
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Categories:
flagon, humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Corn You Call Maize...I adore this corn which you call maize,
In my hand its cob I hold my eyes dilated in paraphrase,
In my mouth its offsprings I chew,
My teeth gliding through a well arranged maze,
Fresh corn harbo......
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Categories:
flagon, devotion, education,
Form:
Light Verse
Boys and Men...On the first day of a year long ago
We walked the path to the glazing wood
Peter, Michael, Seamus and me
We cut hazel wands to swing
Severing the tops from offending fern and brier
Some spark o......
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Categories:
flagon, childhoodday, boy,
Form:
Free verse
Confessions of a Teenage Boy...
This year I asked Santa for a Harley
and a flagon of wine made of barley.
Then I asked God alone
for an angel of my own,
only not one of His, one of Charlie’s!
......
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Categories:
flagon, fun, humorous, teenage,
Form:
Limerick
St George and the Dragon - In Boris' Own Words On Winning the Uk Election...I wielded my sword
And slayed the foul dragon,
Then crammed the vile beast
Right back in his flagon.
Pickled and sodden
There will he lie
Few to remember
Fewer to cry.
Obnoxious his deeds......
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Categories:
flagon, allegory, humor, parody, political,
Form:
Rhyme