Best Immortalised Poems
911 the Falling Man Cometh...The falling man, one photograph captured in time
An unforgettable image, imprinted on this mind
He represents us all, weather we like it or not
His faith did not kill him, ......
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Categories:
immortalised, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night I Kissed Her Lips...The night I kissed her lips was last May;
But the wind came and blew it all away:
Again I kissed her lips and made her weep,
But came the moon, and made my kiss her sleep.
‘O what a m......
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Categories:
immortalised, for her,
Form:
Sonnet
Gandhi...Gandhi
What principle stimulated or stirred this Guy
Which Doctrine or what Teaching did he buy?
Sauntering on sandals and wrapt on his robe
Miles that he treaded traversed entire Globe.
......
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Categories:
immortalised,
Form:
Couplet
Eternal Beauty...I can see us kicking around in our old hometown
Where the pylons buzzed crackling with dampness
Into the open cast crust of the iron ground;
And as I recall there was never a time that felt as coo......
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Categories:
immortalised, life, lost love, love,
Form:
Verse
The Only Star For Me...Bethlehem, a star attraction, out of thee,
Among the chilliads, the small, the great.
A shining example - how grateful are we?
How deep and wide, one stellar star of fate.
In storeh......
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Categories:
immortalised, star,
Form:
Rhyme
An Immortal Legacy...An immortal legacy
None is immortal all destined to die
the humble mason or the wisest king
be it those winged creatures that soar humming
one day all will perish under the sky
Yet there may be ......
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Categories:
immortalised, grave, remembrance day,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Marching Rocks...Marching Rocks
Like Toffee people chasing the westerly breeze
And, presumably ordered, abruptly, to freeze-
Tableaux is evocative of an ancient command
That left a sprawl of stones scatte......
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Categories:
immortalised,
Form:
Couplet
Echoes of a Victims Plea...Echoes of A Victims Plea
The fires burn on; the polemics fuelled
More crocodile tears from the politicians who've duelled
To capture the lens of the Press.
But our loved ones cry that simple ......
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Categories:
immortalised, angst, bereavement, conflict, eulogy,
Form:
Anne Frank's School Days...Anne Frank, a little girl
smart, beautiful and witty
on her thirteenth birthday
got, as gift, a small notebook
she promptly named Kitty.
Kitty soon became a friend
dear and close;
with it An......
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Categories:
immortalised, childhood, children, class, growing
Form:
Free verse
Forgotten Memories...She sits by a dying hearth, an album open in her lap
The cold silent room startles like a slap
Mouldy images stare back from the past
Prints are all she has now
Memories that still cling
To the ......
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Categories:
immortalised, loss, memory, soldier, son,
Form:
Free verse
My Modern Woman...my 21st century woman,
my modern woman,
You have been first of the
born free
one year younger but already
more worldly than me,
traditionalist, but still liberal
so you're a left wing and a......
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Categories:
immortalised, spoken word
Form:
Free verse
An Epiphanic Moment...An epiphanic moment
pale dew drops clung to silky petals as
light breeze held wispy branchlets in its sway
blooms lay snug steeped in enigmatic scents,
waves pirouetting ,dainty in ascent
soon......
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Categories:
immortalised, beautiful, blessing,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Tribute To Earthworm Dave...For the past half billion years
They crawled the earth both soil and sphere
Million trillion unknown souls
To eat and breed their only goal
Homme or femme hermaphrodite
In pairs romance 'neath d......
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Categories:
immortalised, earth, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Verse
An Immortal Legacy...An immortal legacy
None is immortal all destined to die
the humble mason or the wisest king
be it those winged creatures that soar humming
one day all will perish under the sky
Yet there may be ......
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Categories:
immortalised, grave, remembrance day,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Tales of a Paris Flaneur...Early days as a flaneur;
I recall the couple
On the Metro
When I was still innocent
Of its labyrinthine complexities;
Slim pretty white girl,
Clad head to toe
In new blue denim,
Wistfully......
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Categories:
immortalised, friend, loneliness, pain, paris,
Form:
Prose Poetry