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Best Hordes Poems

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


Premium Member Remember the Ovens
Cuckoos hushed, rambling vines and plight.
Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Choke of darkness, forcing midnight.
Wax and breadcrumbs children-ditched folks.

Hordes of birch, beech, pine,...

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Categories: hordes, allusion, angst,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member O' How Long and Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play, Poet Dedication Series
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE-- Number One- (INSPIRED BY AND FROM HIS FROST AT MIDNIGHT POEM).

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O' How Long And Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play,
Poet Dedication...

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Categories: hordes, allusion, appreciation, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rather I, Sharpen Blade, Saddle My Battle Horse, Dawn, First Battle, Part One
Rather I, Sharpen Blade, Saddle My Battle Horse,
(Dawn, First Battle, Part One)

Dare I, reduce poet's pen to a plastic sword
flee from shadows that invades as...

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Categories: hordes, art, conflict, courage, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Thanksgiving Day Twenty-Twenty
Alas, hordes of ravenous relatives from very far and even near,

Won't be celebratin' at dear old Grandma's bountiful board this year,

Since the corona virus pandemic...

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Categories: hordes, humorous, thanksgiving day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: hordes, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )


Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
...

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Categories: hordes, art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism
Affliction of Assyria
The sun had grown dark on that fearful day
When Rabshakah, the Assyrian entered the fray;
Their armor and weapons glittered like gold
As they surged ’cross the...

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Categories: hordes, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hey, That's My Money
Well, I see that Congress is proposin' another trillion dollar spree!
Those inept buffoons must think money grows upon a tree!
The treasury is crankin' out bales...

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Categories: hordes, funny, political, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Night Santa Brought Us Weed
Twas the night before Christmas and all were in need
    as we waited for Santa who had promised us Weed.
Our parents were...

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Categories: hordes, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Escaping Humanity
Feeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...

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Categories: hordes, change, conflict, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pressed Leaves
By chance, I found them, there...
Three pressed leaves, with brittle veins of delicacy
Tucked between the pages 
Of a tattered book of poems
Overlooked and gathering dust,...

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Categories: hordes, devotion, father, motherautumn, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slurp
I sat for a meal in Kuwait
The flies came in hordes on my plate
The soup, they decided
To drink, uninvited,
Bad manners is something I hate!

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Categories: hordes, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member At Gethsemene
Today is Good Friday. Jesus, the Nazarene, who robbed no one, cheated no one, who loved all, healed the sick and performed only acts of...

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Categories: hordes, angst, betrayal, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retirement Due To Health Issues
The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years;
He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears!
He had baptized...

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Categories: hordes, humorous, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Death To The Poets
The race to replace 
The Chosen disgrace
With bombs versus swords
They’re deaf to the hordes

So lay down your pen
It’s Never again
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Categories: hordes, poets, war,
Form: Rhyme

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