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Best Heraldic Poems

Below are the all-time best Heraldic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of heraldic poems written by PoetrySoup members


Cygnus Olor
Chaste and more graceful
Than the white canvassed Dhow:
Reclines sweet Nefertiti 
Upon a Blue Nile breeze.
Fabled entity more whiter
Than the purest white snow
That thickly blankets
And folds...

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Categories: heraldic, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Prayers
Perched high upon the escarpment
of sandstone rubble, the boy sat,
shaded from the rising of the sun
in the shadow of Kings.
Sharp eyed he preyed 
upon the...

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Categories: heraldic, adventure, allegory, childhood, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Poets In the Street
We sit and share a seat, two faces in the street,
wading through our wisdom and design.
‘Though in amble wasn’t said, I knew I am being...

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Categories: heraldic, friend, inspiration, poets,
Form: Rhyme
An Introduction: An Introduction Continued
Now that I have gotten that over with,
Being straightforward as a piss-ant on fire,
Telling you it just is what it is,
That behind all the frizz,
Is...

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Categories: heraldic, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Psychobabble
"Psychobabble"
 


She plants the seeds
in Her mind 
through the 
fathomless
oceanful wells
of Her eyes
saltwater falls
over the unchartered
sharp edges of 
Her tight boundaries
to the playing fields
Elysian
where She...

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Categories: heraldic, magic, memory, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member False Warrior
False Warrior


Cold spear of winter’s harbinger
pierces the heart of summer
leaving her wounded beauty
bleeding out upon the landscape.

Autumn – cruel mercenary force
despoiling the scent of bounty
laying...

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Categories: heraldic, autumn, change, metaphor, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Rose, a Beloved Twin
Though I've yet to behold your lovely face
or hear the voice that softly gives your name,
the thought of you inspires my embrace
of our predestined meeting...

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Categories: heraldic, feelings, friend, friendship, how
Form: Sonnet
Memories of the Griffin
O King of the land and King of the sky,
Magnificent beast from stories so old,
Remember the times when Griffin did fly.

Look back upon those great...

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Categories: heraldic, animal, fantasy, memory, sweet,
Form: Terzanelle
Arbitration
A milk bottle of combustion is a silver tongued spoon. A dragon headed fortress underground. Weaving wavering waving wandering. A teaspoon of cataclysm in giant...

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Categories: heraldic, best friend,
Form: I do not know?
Viva Catalonia
his heraldic crest 
a donger and yarbles rampant 
upon a field of clover
it was a stone slab of course
donated by a few eggheads in exile
his...

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Categories: heraldic, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ancient Seahorse
Immortalized there in the Trevi,
Poseidon and his wondrous steed;
these legendary beasts of the waters
gallop the ocean forever free.

Ancestry of the charmer sea horse
forever pulling a...

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Categories: heraldic, animal, mythology, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Surviving In This World
Poets embrace the septic of poetry,
     and frighten those who are shameful and ashamed ...
     People in...

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Categories: heraldic, allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
My Fake Genealogical Knighthood
My "FAKE" Genealogical Knighthood

Unbeknownst to me if royal
gilded crests comprised
my rusty dust caked coat of arms
hence, I take liberty successfully farms
productive crop to contrive fictitious
Medieval...

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Categories: heraldic, adventure, age, courage, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Rubble In Suitcases
A rubble in a suitcase can be crushed by the might of ten elephants, sixteen rhino, and ladybird in a purple hat. But never a...

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Categories: heraldic, bible,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Fall of the Black Angels
This last few years
Had seen fighting so coarse
Having vowed never to fight
Viewing histories remorse
 
The black angels of angst
Went back on their word
The earth for...

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Categories: heraldic, angst, death, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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