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Best Monumental Poems

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Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: monumental, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse



An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: monumental, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Mona Lisa
You, monumental, pose inside the portrait,
In figure of a pyramid
Construed to be elite
Your right hand, rest above your left hand,
Hints that you're a virtuous woman,
With...

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Categories: monumental, artme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: monumental, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS
If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monumental, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: monumental, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath the Copper Trees
Enhanced by peaceful solitude, in twilight, crimson crowned
She stood in tensile grace, unmoved.  Enchantment in disguise
Lightly splashed by back light, where the tender grass...

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Categories: monumental, fantasy, trust,
Form: Terzanelle
Pieces of Me
Another piece of me falls away
With another one of you who leaves me this day
Sorrow and joy divide my heart     ...

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© Chris Hagy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monumental, absence, animal, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep...

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Categories: monumental, death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Mythical River Beast
I watched it emerge
from out of the fog, monumental
in size, a sheer cliff face of steel 
moving pass me, almost
quieter than my breath 
but for...

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Categories: monumental, boat, magic, river,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daughter
Above all else
A daughter 
wants to be seen……by her mother

There are small big things
That are said
That are done
Those disapproving glances
Tiny big criticisms
The imperceptible monumental moments
The...

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Categories: monumental, anxiety, birth, child, courage,
Form: Free verse
Places I'Ve Peed Haiku Series
1
Sun glints off ripples
Play of light in sheltered cove
Scenic lavatory

2
Backyard full of stars
Footsteps crack on frozen grass
Moonlit lavatory

3
Forested mountain side
Above twisting single track
Rider’s lavatory

4
Over arid...

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Categories: monumental, beach, garden, humorous, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Giant's Dream Jars
In the centre of the silence, a giant fills the space
He carries but a trumpet and a battered old suitcase
I watched with baited breath, the...

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Categories: monumental, children, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bring It Down
a memorial in time
bring it down
bring it down
a testament to bravery
bring it down
bring it down
a witness to chivalry
bring it down 
bring it down
a monumental beauty
bring...

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Categories: monumental, pride, vanity, , memorial,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here...

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Categories: monumental, travel,
Form: Rhyme

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