Best Ides Of March Poems

“Beware the Ides of March,” the seer said to Caesar, 
But no one paid him much attention because the seer was a teaser. 
  
Just last week the seer had said, “Beware the rear Cassias, 
Whatever it is that he’s been eating has left...

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*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed eternal ... plus righteousness,
escapism from existence ... edges evacuation,

Birth ere the latter days ... ventured the laurels that were Rome,
the...

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Upon a sullied slate sky
of alabaster and aquamarine,
floats a formidable flotilla
of charcoal-colored clouds.
And on this mild, melancholy
mid-March day;
they dawdle, dribbling drops of rain
in sporadic Spring showers.
Winter's white wonderland
seasonally salted with brindled blotches,
magically melts away;
revealing rough-woven, ragged patches
of grassy green.
When Winter's weakened grip gives way,
bulbs freed...

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Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members of an elite writer’s group, as she drives along a winding road studded with potholes smaller than most of the...

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Again the alarm is set.

Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.   

The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.

 She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who informs her that a bird doesn’t chirp when her poem...

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Bring two poems is what he said. 

She chose a Personification, ‘Violin’, (the proud recipient of an International Poetry contest award), and a narrative, ‘The Rise and fall of an Empire.’ 

***

A Raven greets her.

She follows him, up into the nest where he retreats to...

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The Ides of March, cruel fate’s Spring Cleaning Day,
when solid walls collapsed around his head:
The day his trusted friends left him for dead.
Once mighty kingdoms fall, dreams burn today.
Bull market's passed; today bears rule the fray.
Before the Reaper, the strongest bow their head.
What is Mount...

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sooth said to Caesar
sire beware the Ides of March-
assassins martyr'd...

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Oh those cursed Ides of the 15th
they brought Julius Caesar death
the soothsayers warning unheeded
mamuralia  chased beaten out of city

His clothes animal skins and rags
they set about this scapegoat with glee
hitting him with large wooden sticks
once he was driven out feasting began

All the while in...

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The Ides of March
are no different than of October
just seven months older
and perhaps, a little bit colder.

And had Caesar only stayed away 
from the Curia of Pompey 
that day
he might have lived, perhaps, a little bit longer.


© October 15, 2015...

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She was here
  There was a doorway
       She filled it...

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Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One: Assassination of fifty five year old 
Julius Caesar, 44 Before...

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(I posted this and found out one line did not rhyme, so I had to adjust the second limerick)

That the Ides of March we should beware
is a quote which is not really fair.
Shakespeare wrote it; it stuck
and it now means bad luck.
Of its meaning few...

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Crossing thresholds of blooms and dewdrops of glorious spring,
Toward autumn proudly walks season-bride with golden ring;
Her costumes, robes of ballet dancers, as per scenes, changes,
Facets of nature alter her charm to cosmic ranges...!

Scotching sun transforms mossy leaves, to golden-churns,
Clement breeze, once exited the stage, into...

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Beware the Ides of March he said
And soon thereafter he was dead,
How intuitive are they who know
How much longer they have to go,
Would you like to know the day
Or more precisely know the way?
I think not when thinking about it
The mystery doesn’t bother a bit.

written...

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