Best Norman Poems
Below are the all-time best Norman poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of norman poems written by PoetrySoup members
Anglo-Norman Arisingthe wealth of norman England is poised to grow
towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
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Categories:
norman, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form:
Narrative
June 1944JUNE 1944
they kissed with dreams of peace in clover - for him fulfilled in Norman field
Monoku - Cliche: All’s fair in love and war...
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Categories:
norman, lost love, war,
Form:
Monoku
First SnowThe first snow of the winter,
And it's really coming down.
Large geometric flakes,
Drift slowly to the ground.
Painting trees and fences,
In garlands of dazzling white.
Making all it...
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Categories:
norman, seasons, snow,
Form:
Quatrain
Portal - part 2
NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense
As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees...
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Categories:
norman, fantasy, suicide,
Form:
Haibun
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly...
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Categories:
norman, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection In the MirrorFeeling the youth
And vigor in my heart
In a fog of my conscious mind
Fluffy white clouds and blue sky
Green emerald tall grass
I love and dance around
Reflection...
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Categories:
norman, age, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten...
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Categories:
norman, art, life, muse, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross the Doggerland dogged people trudge
Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
the mighty maw of...
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Categories:
norman, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its...
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Categories:
norman, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Cleverness of That Young TravelerOnce his brown alpargata shoes trod countless miles,
imagination burst from his vivid, traveler's eyes...
He traversed valleys leading to azure mountains,
and heard a chant sung with...
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Categories:
norman, life, nature, nostalgia, peoplewords,
Form:
Burlesque
Last Night I DreamtLast night I dreamt you saw me
Really saw me for the first time
Not who you thought I should be
But the real me
I danced in front...
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Categories:
norman, father, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday BestSUNDAY BEST or A Soldier’s Coup of Grace
Was always smartest one in his brigade
A pride in his appearance was consistent
Though beach at Dunkirk was no...
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Categories:
norman, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Eternity“There is no death! What seems so is transition;
this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian,
whose portal we call Death.”
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Categories:
norman, death, heaven, life,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Busy Business AboveScratchy, scratchy, what's that sound,
Atop my home space, high and round?
Could there be one self-served mouse,
Schemed to steal my sweet, dry house?
No, those sounds don't...
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Categories:
norman, animal, happy, home, image,
Form:
Rhyme
Ireland - a Divided Island Part Oneborn under the sea, an irresistible force
two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
equatorial deep-time...
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Categories:
norman, community, history, ireland, time,
Form:
Narrative