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Peasants With Pleasant Rags
You see us everywhere you go
Every corner of your street house our offspring
Every bridge in your city has become our refugee camp
We are the people...

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Categories: peasants, morning, poverty, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse



In Purple Fields We Dance
 Stay a little longer

come closer to my heart

Breathe dew breeze  on my neck's nape

do not yet depart

Play for me bagpipe music

Blindfold all my...

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Categories: peasants, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Generous Bard
(The Merry Adventures of Robin Good)

Sherwood's Forest legendary, leading man 
up, down, tricking eggs between branches
slender, slander, his voice is growing thinner
twisting, turning heads 50...

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Categories: peasants, abuse, character, community, corruption,
Form: Alliteration
I Have Been To Places of Great Death
I have been to places of great death:
walking the battlefield at Gettysburg,
as a lusty young man of no firm belief
who stepped between the great rocks
of...

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Categories: peasants, allegory, angel, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: peasants, evil,
Form: Rhyme



The Sun Rises--The Moon Sets
The Sun Rises- -The Moon Sets 


Think of life, the cycle of 
How radiation can support life, enough heat to
Ensure a stable self sustaining system.

Something...

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Categories: peasants, life, naturemoon,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Ode To Holy Ganga- Constanza
Oh Ganga! river so revered
your holiness purifies deep
if thy essence we let in seep.

From lord Shiva's hair you appeared
down the mighty Himalayas
quenching the thirsty souls...

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Categories: peasants, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All You Need Is Cheese
The humble cheese has a secret superpower
Its gooey glory conquers cauliflower
The melted cheddar of fried baloney
The better half of macaroni

The sharp-dressed suitor of apple pie
A...

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Categories: peasants, appreciation, food, funny, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

Winter solitude  would be gone.

The avalanche of differences melts into nothingness.

Through the same...

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Categories: peasants, jesus, true love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Robin and His Merry Men's Night Out
Robin treated his men down at the inn
To sexy wenches, food, mead and some gin
All got drunk on the mead
Then got high on the weed
Friar...

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Categories: peasants, humor,
Form: Limerick
Reject the Self-Hatred, Part Ii
...They proclaimed that we ‘oppressed women,’
it’s the refrain of loud femenists,
forgetting that before birth control
nature gave us little choice in this.
That before we had technology,
when...

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Categories: peasants, america, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Ones
Beautiful Ones

Aloft in the steam, they look like Eagles.
Perched now on the edge of the bowl,
proud courtesies peck the kind and meek
with true meanings and...

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Categories: peasants, abuse, anger, hate, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Not Nosey But
I've never been one to nosey but
Looking through my net curtains
I just happened to have a pair of binoculars in my hand
I'm a curious kinda...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: peasants, class, crazy, england, eve,
Form: Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between...

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Categories: peasants, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Solitude In Academia
Homer, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Goethe, and Crane;
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Whitman, and Twain;
Whose imagination and toil helped to unfold
Stories, philosophies, and lessons to be told.

The...

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Categories: peasants, books, deep, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs