Best Massing Poems
Custer At the Washita
...Historically accurate, narrative poem
27 November 1868, on the banks of the Washita River
Dawn’s peaceful first light streaks the eastern skies,
belying the horror of a marauding force of h......
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Categories:
massing, native american, war, ,
Form:
Narrative
Spoon-Fed On Spoonerisms
...Hooming in the near lorizon,
another girthday makes me bloomy
The yays, the dears are massing paster!
I am diserablly mepressed, and in a date of great sistress!
Age, you may agree, is rot fo......
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Categories:
massing, age, funny, old,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Five
...Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Five
The Monseigneur knew that they must be successful in this venture as the “Lord’s Madmen” or face the very real possibility of eternal damnatio......
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Categories:
massing, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Excursions Towards Survival
...Balance is the sixth sense.
Like a dreamer's dictionary,
The planter interprets the times and the seasons:
How to till the soil.
How to plant and how to reap.
How to repay the overdue debt
Th......
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Categories:
massing, metaphor, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Love Shared
...
It’s the gentleness of words passing
Joined hearts in tune, enjoyment massing
Keepers of a bond that’s heaven made
Love growing deeper in soul mates shade
Magic mirrors need not be given t......
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Categories:
massing, love,
Form:
ABC
Kitcheners Poster, the Great War
...February came in keeping with its ancient character a month of coldness, wetness and of thawing,
With departing frost and melting snow, February could possibly be called the wet season,
Maybe it's ......
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Categories:
massing, adventure, daffodils,
Form:
Blank verse
Peasants of the Playbook
...Peasants of the Playbook
You’re peasants of the playbook
Yet you think you know the reason
For the failure of the team
That does the best it can this season
And, massing in the mews
You’ve raised t......
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Categories:
massing, allegory, education, parody, school,
Form:
Verse
The Storm
...Massing waves drummed offshore
Above them a partnered wind blew
Together they prepared to war
Against what I once knew
This dark and cold wet vastness
Brought forth my waterloo......
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Categories:
massing, angst, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
Barcelona, 1937
...Still heat. The dust in the gutters
is dry. A droning fly
can be heard through the shutters.
Ruined walls. Rubble. Sun-cracked plaster.
Afternoon, and nothing stirs.
Things should be movi......
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Categories:
massing, history,
Form:
Rhyme
- Sins of the Dinother -
......To get back
get back, else
the Grand Probation
fails...
We suffer hale
'cause
We suffer, hail to
a mobiused Morlde`
of looped
Perpetuity
The wakesleeping
of
Self'sexcesses,
moral......
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Categories:
massing, introspection, peace, philosophy, political,
Form:
Free verse
Labour Day
...On the bright parkway comes the throbbing drums
The sound of the pan and sound of the horn
The great crowd alive like a beehive hums
And children gloating like goats in the corn
Float after float lik......
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Categories:
massing, on work and working,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Night's Sojurn In Old Virginny
...alone I made camp
in an old post-war lean-to
so close to the river
mist covers me like dew
next to my rough camp
I found rougher white stones
faded names, faded lives
graves hiding old bones......
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Categories:
massing, death, fear,
Form:
Sad Birthday
...White celebration again,
With mothers and children
Juicing, fruiting campaign,
Tossing drinking Champaign,
Standing and sitting again
With singing and dancing domain
A thirtieth birthday bro!
No pain......
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Categories:
massing, adventure, birthday, pain, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
You
...Hi you, yes you
I'm talking to you who think you do not need to hear this
Yes you can hear yourself as you are reading this
You know why you can hear yourself because,
I am in your mind and I mig......
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Categories:
massing, inspirational,
Form:
Bio
When Politicians Cry
...taking the podium &
patting the eyes whilst
whimpering,
the genuine feeling in the air,
which might naturally come from the
massing of individuals together,
gets sucked right out
like a massive vacu......
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Categories:
massing, life,
Form:
Free verse