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Best Lads Poems

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Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: lads, brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lads, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: lads, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tartan and Pipes
Tradition and dress
A nations finesse
Symbolic in style
By a country mile
 
The drone of the pipes
Tartan clad
Bonnie on the girls
Proud on the lads
 
Highland dancers
In kilted...

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Categories: lads, history, inspirational, passion, places
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: lads, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Sheep Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lads, adventure, animal, christmas, december,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member no heroes - WWI -
   heroes?

there are none here, now ... ever ...
      don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
 ...

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Categories: lads, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Sea Songs
His heart is with the winds
that set his spirit free,
enduring breeze that sets the sails
and guides him out to sea.

Sea rover fair with eyes as...

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Categories: lads, adventure, loss, sad, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's Time To Rumble
Be brave my lads. It's time to rumble
Jump into battle but beware the tumble.
Stay on your toes or you might stumble.
Getting lost will make your...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lads, humor,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Canada

We all know you now
You have fallen at our feet
You have guarded them all with life and limb
Noble...

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Categories: lads, soldier, violence, war,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Music To Die For
Have you thought about the music to send you on your way
If they played you Bach not Beethoven would there be hell to pay

I had...

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Categories: lads, music,
Form: Couplet
Miners Tale With Audio
day in the life of a coal miner 

in the darkness you hear them
their boots clumping along the cobbled stones
not dawn yet ...yet still they...

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Categories: lads, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Brother's of the Wind
Through the whispering pines, down the valley's deep
And wide, do they call unto one another, the brother's
Of the winds.
North chases east to west, as south's...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lads, adventure, beauty, environment, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Drove
The trail was long and very dusty
great clouds churned up by hooves
of the vast herd being wrangled on
300 more miles of eating their dust

Bandana's tightly...

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Categories: lads, horse, storm,
Form: Epic
A Poem About Nothing But Love
A Poem About Nothing but Love
By: Tyner Twine

"I edited a few parts from my original poem.
As tribute to my first love's requiem.
Nevertheless, this simple soul...

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Categories: lads, fear, first love, identity,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs