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Best Henchmen Poems

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Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: henchmen, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad



Little Puff Puff and the Magic Castle- Part 2
Thus we follow little Puff Puff brave and true,
For the Castle of Magic was within her view…
She will journey far under the skies of blue,
When...

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Categories: henchmen, 1st grade, character, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Light of Reckoning -2
The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in...

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Categories: henchmen, creation,
Form: Epic
Greater Is God
God is greater than the crush that caused the crater
The liars that always said, "Not now but certainly later."
The promise of pay to the delivery...

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Categories: henchmen, faith, father,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Red Hat
‘Twas in another century
On a desolate, dreary day 
When something red from skies above
Wafted Into the land of gray.

It slowly drifted in the sky,
Then lit...

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Categories: henchmen, bullying, childhood, freedom, magic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun was a kindly old soul
He raped and plundered the land
With the aid of his murderous henchmen all
A truly psychotic man 

The kind...

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Categories: henchmen, humorous, tribute, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One

Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes! 

The Pied Piper, himself, is the man,...

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Categories: henchmen, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Grave Diggers
Beneath the full moon's illumination, two darkly dressed
Figures are quietly digging, gentlemen collectors, of the
Cadavers of the undead, desecration's henchmen of
Greed’s loosened purse strings, murders...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: henchmen, adventure, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alchemy
Alchemy

What process need there be to make
of broken things – the real?  Great
sorcerers have failed, formed molten
monuments to greed’s glory.  I, poor
peasant that...

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Categories: henchmen, allegory, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Unscrupulous Man
You crawled out of her innocent womb 
Kicking , begging and screaming
But it is too late for you to be redeemed 
You were born evil...

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Categories: henchmen, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style -Le Chant Royal - Instalment 4
RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 4)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza:...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: henchmen, anti bullying, family, father
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Commandment Battlement - Part Three -
The Queen's henchmen penetrate professionally the porous perimeter,
as a Phyrric victory I pacified your Lady's legion,
for both in the open,like charriots missing riders,decentralized command,the measure,
I,...

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Categories: henchmen, war,
Form: Epic
Leaving Chicago
Above the roller-coaster rain clouds, 
there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane 
cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks 
over Chicago....

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: henchmen, places
Form: Free verse
Gangster
Gangster

Gangster, Gangster, ruthless cold-blooded killer,
Destroyer of life, take no prisoner for bountiful gain.
Business Man, Protector, racketeer of feared innocents,
Taking what you will, secured with violence...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: henchmen, corruption, crazy, hate, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stolen Shoes
Did oz turn its posterior, when Dorothy stole those ruby shoes?
Something over the rainbow’s smelling pretty ominous.

Opposites attract, like evil and good.   a...

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Categories: henchmen, humorous, imagination,
Form: Couplet

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