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Best Longbow Poems

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Premium Member The Longbow Archer
“Laws of the land enslave our people”

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Categories: longbow, political,
Form: Free verse



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: longbow, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Flight of An Arrow
Dawn broke
The eastern pink sky
Drew across the stars
As they faded and lost to the night

 

I called the eagle
To guide me
Piercing whistle
That I learnt as...

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Categories: longbow, adventure
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Flare To the Heavens
Flare to the heavens
Fired by a goddess’s longbow
Igniting a great passion
She says we should meet
At the hills above her feet
Where billowing clouds reside

Russell Sivey...

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Categories: longbow, life,
Form: Sedoka
Moonstruck Asylum
Chipped the factor of maybe days, 
  Wondering sweet tooth cracked in the night 
And the cap spilled parallel, baring the nerves, 
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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longbow, confusion, death, loss, lost
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Bow Maid's Travail/ the Archery Lesson
The archers’ line was straddled,
By many a shapely calf.
The Marshall called the nocking,
And winked at the pretty lass.

The Maiden drew the bowstring back,
To her ruddy...

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Categories: longbow, son, song-lyric
Form: Rhyme
The Rites of Spring
Excitedly we travelled to the fair.
   As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
   Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
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Categories: longbow, spring, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Squire
A young squire set off
through the dark woods
he was on his way to town
to find adventure and fun

When he was set upon by villains
bravely he...

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Categories: longbow, horse, journey, love, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Where Together, We Stood
Magic can never be undone
This is the way
Of stars
Of magic
Of me
My journey with Aquila
Has begun

 
We left that dark wood
Where together
We stood
We fought
The Wraiths’ night
My...

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Categories: longbow, love
Form: Ballad
A Journey Has Begun
A castle filled with light

Love and laughter

Trees that whispered

Faeries that sing

With beauty and delight

 

Aquila and Moondust

The last night at Heartstone

A feast in the Great...

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Categories: longbow, imagination, inspirational, life, lovejourney,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Old Sailor's Heartfelt Plea To Lost Love
Old Sailor's Heartfelt Plea To Lost Love

Thou hast torn fine sails from anchored ship's mast
In harbor previously thought true safe.
Thy sudden change has left my...

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Categories: longbow, art, creation, grief, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
That Evil Can Seep
Across the bridge

In to the depths

Of the other side

I felt the faint prickle

Of something

Not alive

 

Moondust felt it too

Of cold winds

Tattered cloaks 

Blowing through

 

Moondusts’...

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Categories: longbow, imagination, inspirational, love
Form: Ballad
Aquila and I
I rode with Aquila
Across the meadows
Through the trees
His love,
Is all I need
 

That I chose
A man
That carried a longbow
In that clearing
I stepped in from the...

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Categories: longbow, love
Form: Ballad
The Stain of the Night
They came at night

Just before dawn

Moondust awoke

I heard the wraiths’ shrieking cries

Faeries’ magic to invoke

Longbow drawn

 

I kissed my Moondust

Then back to back

We waited for...

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Categories: longbow, imagination, inspirational, lovelove,
Form: Ballad
Big Swelled Drum Sound Within Empty Inner
Draper to dram shop, loops
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Categories: longbow, bullying, fishing, hate, words,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs