Best Pilgrims Poems

Why did pilgrims come to America
For Religious Freedom

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WHO WERE THE PILGRIMS ?


JAMESTOWN
1607 



 Four hundred years ago high-born Brits sailed to America
Seeking fast fortunes, adventure and fame.
Many would never endure their first year here
Cultivating, foraging, and hunting game.

Arriving in Virginia they came ill-prepared
In search of gold and a route to the South...

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Of Pilgrims and Indians

By Elton Camp

In school we are taught a history filled with lies
In order that American history be well sanitized
The Pilgrims were a stern but gracious bunch
Who invited the Indians in to share their lunch

The Pilgrims were grateful to God to still be...

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Polish potato pancakes

My clan’s tradition

Peel, grate, soften in water

Add eggs, onions, salt

A smidge of flour

Fry in oil

Wow!


*I am truly thankful for everything my grandparents did for me as a child.  Learning to cook ethnic foods is just one of many blessings they bestowed upon...

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A staff in hand
Sandals on his feet
A backpack of provisions
He departed that morning
Towards the first settlement
Towards the rising sun
Said he wanted to make it
To the eastern gate pass
Exit our realm 
Into the first settlement
They calmly reminded him
The path was blocked 
By the seraphim
With flaming swords
But...

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On this path, this somber trail
Many rivers we have crossed 
Not without the pilgrims plight
Fore dreaded sights beseech our heels
And lingering nights tinkered deep,
On we march to victory’s dawn!

On this road laid with thorns
Forlorn wind and sinking sand
With blighted feet we thread along
To the ray...

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We enter unannounced and extraordinarily prepared;
Undue gifts bestowed on us, nothing has been spared.
The body is a miracle of efficiency, precision and poise,
Treat this as your home and it responds with princely joys.
The mind, the heart, the soul, we take it all for granted;
The five...

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The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled about,
As they grinched, and they groused, and they cried,
'til of 132 Mayflower passengers and...

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Pilgrims without progress were a people by name,
They travelled a road that was always the same.
The way that was mapped for the route they took,
Was inscribed by pen in a leather bound book.

The road was rocky and scattered with thorn,
And the people were hot and...

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Progress of Pilgrims
David J Walker

Poverties refugees 
In portions of wealth 
for the making
Sunbaked promises 
	Cotton spun gold
Such are the 
stories told 
For the taking 

In the slim shadows of
Mills that turn wind 
into water 
soil into fodder for
		cattle

forgotten graves 
mark the progress of
Pilgrims on a
Caliche...

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Christians
   are one as Christ's,
nursing the souls we find,
the blind, the lame, the weak, the poor
never keeping score; we adore
         Noble  Pilgrims


Copyright McCuen 2009...

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We were pilgrims to the great city 
one who's culture is globally abundant 
all types live there 

Big name giants 
Equal minded intellectuals 
Rights activists aplenty 
Kings of poetry and literature 
Envious dealers of intensity 
Laymen wishing to emulate 
Espresso madmen doing caffeinated jigs
Young men...

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Away with our sorrow left to abide...
The pain tomorrow never glide.
Our fate lies hollow forever stricken; 
Our faith but a shallow bears a shaken.
We hoped on the rain that broke our haven; 
anticipation in strain dead to awaken.
Our worries still linger never to fade; 
our...

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Individual souls orbiting the world
Stuck in our own bored routine...

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“The sacred lake also called Ganga Talao represents the mighty Ganges river of India.” Mauritiusinsideout.com>grand-bassin-mauritius


                       A Sacred Lake

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