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Best Mitre Poems

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Life Is Like a Chess Match
"Life is like a chess match 
To win you must be swift and able to maneuver 
Yes, life and the chess match are very much...

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Categories: mitre, evil, god, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Antique Store
I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
I stumbled over things and stepped 'round clutter to make my way!
I looked for clocks...

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Categories: mitre, funny, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Physician
At the end of a dry, harsh August, as
Autumn slowly descends upon Whitechapel, 
I begin my vicious practice.
From Buck’s Row to Hanbury Street,
I make each...

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mitre, abuse, crazy, gothic, murder,
Form: Lyric
Earth-Woman
I am woman and I have borne the Torah on a gold cloth 
over my shoulder.
I have consecrated its dust-leadened parchment, 
cradling the scrolls into...

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Categories: mitre, christian,
Form: Free verse
The Epitaph of An Unbeliever
Where would you like to be buried they asked
Well really that’s not my concern
It won’t bother me if I’m under a tree
Or stuck on a...

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© Roy May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mitre, funeralme, music, me, music,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Oh Death
Oh Death, grant me organic mirth
Return to earth ‘neath lifeless moon
Undo the tendrils that hold sway
Allow embrace of Mother’s womb

For I am now but skin...

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Categories: mitre, dark, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
The Snake Charmer

He dresses in robes, carefully coiffed 
He enters the nave, mitre is doffed
He preaches a tale, to eager sheep
He fleeces their wool, his tithe to...

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Categories: mitre, allegory, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Somewhere
The mitre of us
We live, due by our own rules
Skeptical beliefs
Tender tawdry tantrums
Misty colored trifles...

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Categories: mitre, age, allusion, dedication, wisdom,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Pompous Ceremony
The lightly fizzing mood
I've felt all day
and fenced within a grin
is at odds 
with the stoppered
solemnity of this pompous 
ceremony I've had to attend
and is...

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Categories: mitre, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Soul
In that we are all a vassal to age
  no sceptre or mitre can set us free,
and no fealty can old time assuage
 ...

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Categories: mitre, age, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Murphy's Law of Government
soundbyte politics
mitre box propaganda
angles distorted
Peter Principal vitae
all cutters from rotten cloth...

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Categories: mitre, america, anger, betrayal, cancer,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Spring In the Air
Spring Is In The Air

Seasons changed as revolutions circled in the wider scheme
of matter with great things to come and wonders gone past

Summer in unforgettable...

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Categories: mitre, beauty,
Form: Free verse
I Know You Wont Believe Me, But
Good morning my dear, are you still awake? 
Yes, I know it's quite late but let me make 
it quite clear its not entirely my...

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© John Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mitre, drink, humor,
Form: Free verse
God Meant Need His Consent
what God may have meant
will always need my consent
give up things for Lent 
 (Mitre Box)

we would search and search
for place where new priest can...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mitre, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Snapshot of Cambridge
This is a poem about the University city of Cambridge in the UK , although I have only been there a few times , I...

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Categories: mitre, england, graduate, poets, student,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs