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Best Hamlet Poems

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Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: hamlet, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member The Rest Is Silence
I left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...

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Categories: hamlet, history, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: hamlet, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Teacher's So Cool
"I love my teacher."
"I have a great teacher." 
"My teacher is super."
"My teacher's so cool."

These words are music to a teacher's ears,
Exactly what parents and...

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Categories: hamlet, cool, education, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Want To Be a Princess
Let me tell you a story....
of a little girl who didn't want to be a Princess!!!!

it happened a long time ago, in the life of an adorable...

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Categories: hamlet, children, life, princess,
Form: Narrative



Like a Poet Would Do
Let me love you like a poet would do.
Let me bite on the lid of my pen, thinking of you.
Let me write you down on...

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Categories: hamlet, love, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Be You
"To thine own self be true."*
No matter what else you do....
this truth will get you by
Look others in the eye
With sureness take a stand
Your life...

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Categories: hamlet, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Sleepless Night Triolet
From Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
"To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub.”

Perchance to dream. . . Ah yes, but first to sleep!

My little clock keeps ticking on...

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Categories: hamlet, sleep,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Cities of Sonnets
It was tantalizing, sweet completion
Lines of blue ink filling white space
Tastes of emotions, colors of consonants
Music of vowels, syllables singing
To create, and satiate

Then, time thinned
Responsibility...

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Categories: hamlet, appreciation, creation, journey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through Eyes of Redwoods
"to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature" William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601

towering redwoods 
forest dwellers born before Christ’s time on Earth
spreading arms to lofty...

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Categories: hamlet, inspirational, naturetime,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hear the Blowing Wind
The old rusty gate CREAKS open,
                   ...

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Categories: hamlet, childhood, house, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Cynicism of Disillusion
THE CYNICISM OF DISILLUSION or Perhaps Hamlet was right.

Disillusion frames the drama of our lives
As we lurch through props and sets with pratfalls tripped
Wood Pigeon...

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Categories: hamlet, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Air We Breathe
The Air We Breathe

Whatever death hides in the dark forest?
The Man attentive to death-defying chances
with sinister low sweeping branches, strong
confused as to the hierarchical level
upon...

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Categories: hamlet, devotion, discrimination, god, hope,
Form: Verse
Pastoral Recall
PASTORAL

Yes I remember when this was all fields
Patchworked across the vale to chalky down
The cornfield and the pastures and the weald
That fed the hearts and...

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Categories: hamlet, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cursed Lake
He defied tragedy as he rowed
His sturdy boat towards the middle
Of the cursed lake where once
His wife fell into the icy water
And drowned.  He...

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Categories: hamlet, best friend, desire,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs