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Best Mortar 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: mortar, brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The House of Spirits
It looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortar, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dust From the Past
Looking back again, back into the past, 
it was written in sand, all those questions we asked
on those last days of summer, something was wrong
as...

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Categories: mortar, age, memory, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Choir of Nature
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness therein, the world and they that dwell therein”
A Psalm of David…

Solitary, I stand upon these ever changing...

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Categories: mortar, faith, happiness, nature, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: mortar, war,
Form: Epic



These We'Ll Yet Destroy
Two owls charmed me
moments before I embarked
on the hours of industry to come.
Their silhouettes were dark and secretive,
their voices wistful and low.
I had a moment...

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Categories: mortar, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sigh Bereft of Tune
Written: January 20, 2024
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Weary of heartfelt...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortar, angst, death, earth, fear,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Purpose
I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for...

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Categories: mortar, inspirational, on work and
Form: Narrative
Anxious Dissolution
IV

A soul was broken to make room
For dusty halls and labyrinths.
A gossamer, nylon bed-sheet shroud
Enwraps the remnants of that mind.
And no excuses can be made;...

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Categories: mortar, allegory, depression, introspection, sad,
Form: Free verse
Kingdom of Ruin

Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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Categories: mortar, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member I Had a Martini: Ok, Maybe Four
It'd been one of the most bizarre days; downright crazy
so I had a martini, maybe four, so things got kinda hazy
I fumbled in my wallet...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortar, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songs of Power Paint It Black
Your body is lowered into the ground, where you lie in darkness.
My warm tears mingle with December's cold rain... I lament.
War's grip holds me in...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortar, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Architects of Time
Your words --
Are the soft mortar
Between bricks and stones
Inside these mending walls

Your words --
Are stiff but fragile
Frames, building language and art

Words fill these empty spaces...

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Categories: mortar, imaginationwords,
Form: Free verse
So Many Books
There were so many books at Barnes and Noble’s
That I wanted to buy but I wasn’t able
Up at the counter with my chin in my...

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Categories: mortar, books, change,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Leper Messiah
Walking toward His grave, the cool air nipping at my nape on this chilly Nisan morning, feeling disconsolate. The sun has just risen over the...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortar, jesus, remember,
Form: Haibun

Book: Shattered Sighs