Best Rhine Poems
My Family Is Everywhere...My family is everywhere like wild seeds sown
On the whim and bluster of a wind
Some left for Cuba before the revolution
Bring green stalks of sweet grass to sugar
And are still there, root sunken......
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Categories:
rhine, familyfamily, old, home, family,
Form:
Free verse
Dusseldorf...In an unreal pre-dawn half-light
I gazed with much surprise
Across the darkly flowing Rhine
With newly-wakened eyes.
The vista on the river bank
Was as within a dream.
A vision wonderful, surr......
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Categories:
rhine, hope, recovery from, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Black and White...Lights are low. Reflections flicker on the wall
Mirror images of those from long ago.
Dead so many years, yet who are still alive...
Here,...in black and white, ...in this dark room
Bergman an......
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Categories:
rhine, art, imaginationlove,
Form:
Free verse
Lamentations...On a ledge and in trace of paths to incandescent tunnels away from illusive digression.
Voices fade overhead into narrowing echo of screams amid mild depression.
I drown in the shadows to escape ......
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Categories:
rhine, absence, anger, anxiety, fear,
Form:
Free verse
The Spy and the Clown...She descended from a far away land
I was from the backwoods
She was my life and death
I was her lover boy
They taught me simple things
Beware of seductive pretty strangers
How to drive a car ......
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Categories:
rhine, adventure, innocence, introspection, lost
Form:
Light Verse
Beer...This is the best beer I've ever had.
Yes, The best beer I've ever had.
No beer is really bad, but
This is the best beer I’ve ever had.
Beer’s invention was accidental I’m told.
Something about......
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Categories:
rhine, adventure, best friend, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Seven Year Anniversary...I thought for a long time
to try and do something right
(in your eyes)
I've taken the blows
and the comparatives
of every beauty you know
You love me, you loathe me,
I'm evil and detestable......
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Categories:
rhine, anniversary,
Form:
Free verse
The Swan King - the Key To My Heart Style...~ The Swan King ~
(Key To My Heart)
Dream
Within
A dream
Breathless
Symphony
Castle********Of dreams
Romantic King of Bavaria
King Ludwig II was that
Y......
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Categories:
rhine, beautiful, history, love, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Concert In West Germany...On the bluffs above the Lorelei Rock,
Overlooking the Rhine River near Bingen,
Is the Lorelei Ampitheater.
While stationed in West Germany,
Towards the end of the Cold War,
I saw there an aweso......
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Categories:
rhine, music,
Form:
Narrative
A Doctors Ballad...I never really understood people until I took apart my old school chum Rick.
Now I know exactly what makes the human heart tick.
The intricacy of the human circuitry is Gods most artful work withou......
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Categories:
rhine, dark, death, evil, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Lenny From Liechtenstein...Pencil thin Lenny from old Liechtenstein,
Built a long skinny house near the Rhine,
It was all that he need
Provided his feed
Doesn't include cakes and dess......
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Categories:
rhine, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
The Warlord Wars No More -2...Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats o......
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Categories:
rhine, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Woman Viking Warrior...See! Air is spotless. I give you its blood!
I impose Poetry´s Knife where you post
You who slept to kiss all and any Tod
A Prince for your home as a foolish host!
You had nerve to pull Arms aga......
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Categories:
rhine, adventure, song-
Form:
Sonnet
The Swan King - Key To My Heart...~The Swan King~
(Key To My Heart)
Dream
Within
A dream
Breathless
Symphony
Castle********Of dreams
Romantic King of Bavaria
King Ludwig II was that
Yes was that and ......
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Categories:
rhine, beautiful, beauty, celebrity, tribute,
Form:
Shape
Too Late For Me Blues...London bridge has fallen
The queen of England has lost her crown
London bridge has fallen
The queen of England has lost her crown
No more watchman on the wall
And Humpty Dumpty done hit the gro......
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Categories:
rhine, conflict, emotions, england, feelings,
Form:
Lyric