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Premium Member The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Piping loud
(An Epitaph  to the unsung hero William Blake)

Fighter he was with
Bow of burning gold:
Arrows of desire:
Chariot of fire!

He heard the lamb’s innocent call
And...

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Categories: hamelin, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Hamelin
Before you read further, please be aware, 
you should read that sign right over there.
This plain wooden sign,
With words painted Red.
You best read it, 
or...

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Categories: hamelin, betrayal, children, fantasy,
Form: I do not know?
In Praise of Your Beauty
My pen can not draw the beauty of Your glory
My voice can not sing the melody of Your story
My vision can not explain the vividness...

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Categories: hamelin, inspirational, lovebeauty, light, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Rat Race
We're furry and coloured grey, brown, or black
Be-whiskered and sleek and reeking of fat
We'll squeeze through a hole, a gap, or a crack
For rotting flesh...

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Categories: hamelin, animal, dark, horror,
Form: Rhyme
I Believe In You
Do you believe in miracles?
Do you believe in love?
Do you believe in magic?
And angels up above 

Do you believe in happiness?
Or do you think its...

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Categories: hamelin, devotion, fantasy, friendship, love,
Form: Light Verse



Rats For Phones
Rats for Phones

Medieval Hamelin, so they say
Was rat infested so one day
The town folks, though with shady hype
Hired a Piper and his pipe
And rid the...

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Categories: hamelin, animals, places, social, city,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Book of Charm
What is this charm that others have?
Magnetic attraction and attention grabbing,
Playing the room like the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Charm like a souffle needs careful attention...

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Categories: hamelin, allusion, friend, friendship, motivation,
Form: Free verse
The Woman Sira
The woman Sira



So, woulds’t Pan entice me
in a land of beauty, known as Umbria.
With silken surround 
radiating a web of utmost magic.
Oh! wondrous creature.

Men to...

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Categories: hamelin, romance,
Form: Blank verse
Halloween
Halloween
Trick or treat (Pied piper)

Excitement filled the air.
Halloween night…
Thick dark mist covered,
A cold ghostly spirit appeared,
The earth was still,
As fear gripped,
Revenge was sweet,
The payment due!
Curse...

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Categories: hamelin, poems,
Form: Free verse
Farside Fairy Tale Reveiw
no drama Obama stars there was old woman who lived in a shoe            ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hamelin, satireme, me,
Form: Quatrain
Are You Watchin' the Rats
Are you watchin' the rats
Scurrying to and fro
Impending doom is theirs
In their hearts they know

They ate up all the grain
Soiled all homesteads
Ravaged hill and plain
Bit...

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Categories: hamelin, allegory
Form: Rhyme
Another Piper
Not pied but a piper of a different sort,
	Partakers tend to frequent cuff and court.
	He seldom leads prefers to follow,
	Decorates flesh while insides hollow.
	
	And slowly...

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Categories: hamelin, character, conflict, confusion, drug,
Form: Ballad
Peta Condemns the Pied Piper
PETA Condemns the Pied Piper

By Elton Camp

PETA thought the piper shouldn’t treat rats that way
So due to his villainy, they had the following to say:
Rats...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hamelin, funny
Form: Rhyme
The Pied Pipers of -
(Rewritten excerpts of The Pied Pipers of Hamelin in today's political scenario)

Folks,
They swarmed the nation,
in every location.
They fought like dogs, and slept like logs,
and pricked...

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Categories: hamelin, political,
Form: I do not know?
Hypocrisy is holy
If I have rhyme, If i have reason, but where do i say ?
All the land screams, "keep it out of our bay" !
Hypocrisy is...

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Categories: hamelin, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things