Best Ottoman Empire Poems


Premium Member My Ancestors Escape
...PRELUDE
There has always been animosity between Greece and Turkey as far back in history as we wish to go.  Greece was occupied by the Turks during the Middle-Ages for almost 500 years.  My ancestor......

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Categories: ottoman empire, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arni Kleftiko Stolen Lamb
...Arni Kleftiko Stolen Lamb


The Cypriots and Greeks have a few differences,
And can argue a great deal,
But both agree when it comes to ‘Kleftiko”
It has forever been, the most delectable 
Tra......

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Categories: ottoman empire, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fault Line
...The fault line streamed from the Nazi state,
The Jewish Shoah, Holocaustic fate.
Mongolia, Croatia, and Belarus,
Humanity had no excuse.

Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan, 
The full scope of te......

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Categories: ottoman empire, death, future, grief, history,
Form: Rhyme

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The Charge At Beersheba
...The Australian Light Horse had rode all night
And the troopers were all spoiling for a fight
For they remembered mates lose on the fatal shore
When the Turks defeated the Gallipoli Invasion flaw
......

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Categories: ottoman empire, remember, world war i,
Form: Ballad
The Twelve Months of the Year
...January: is mountain of blessing where the births sing with hope for those 
Semen mentioned on this occasion to Ottoman Empire where conqueror doesn't 
Need dozens of sword to shout. He only unders......

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Categories: ottoman empire, success, symbolism, wisdom, ,
Form: ABC
Ottaman Waters
...ottoman empire
soldier fight your fighting style
with knife,with flintlock......

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Categories: ottoman empire, history
Form: Haiku


The Hostler's Daughter
...Lassie, pretty, invincible pleasure
The pride of a skilled crafter!
There lived on the landscapes a farrier,
By the ruins of Ottoman Empire.
His daughter, heaven's courtier!
A professional innke......

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Categories: ottoman empire, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Citius, Altius, Fortius
...The temple of Olympia gave birth to the games
Kingdoms of Greece did battle before the flames
Coroebus of Elis first champion and winner
Blood sweat and tears before the king of Olympia.
Hercules......

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Categories: ottoman empire, history, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Romanus " Romania "
...Romanus country
Romania to us
Iron curtain frontier
Dismantled by fuss
 
Like us all invaded
But by Goths and the Huns
Typical past history
Populations on the run
The Ottoman Empire, absorbe......

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Categories: ottoman empire, history, life, loss, peace,
Form: Rhyme
A Titch More of Tom's Torturously Terrrible Tidbits
...I went to buy an R.V.
They said all I could afford was a Lose-a Beggo.

I bought a pair of alligator shoes.
But then I started wandering off into swamps.
Finally, I had to toss them, they were
......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ottoman empire, funny, on writing and
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's the Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram's The Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull by T. Wignesan

Excerpts from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s ......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ottoman empire, america, french, memory, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Will Curse Those Who Curse Israel
..."God will bless those who bless Israel. 
And he will curse those who curse Israel."***

The United States of America has been blessed
For two primary reasons.  Our founding fathers
And our found......

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Categories: ottoman empire, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Gallipoli,
...A Poem Of WW1 
ANZAC Day 
25th April 2018

Let’s have at Johnny Turk
Winston Churchill said, 
We’ll secure the Dardanelles,
Keep our Russian trade fed.
His words so casually uttered 
May hav......

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Categories: ottoman empire, memorial day, military, remembrance
Form: Rhyme
Shout It From the Roof Tops
...I like Germany
I like the Germans
I have friends there
I worked for a time near Frankfurt 
And I visit Berlin often
It’s my favourite city
They are nice people
Friendly and welcoming
They sha......

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Categories: ottoman empire, war
Form:
100 Years After the Beersheba Charge
...Did you hear about the charge
On that faithful day

At 4 o’clock in the afternoon
It was the desert you see

And water was like gold
When the Australian Light Horse

Charged Beersheba that d......

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Categories: ottoman empire, peace, remember, war,
Form: Ballad
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