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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
Premium Member 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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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhine, hope, recovery from, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhine, absence, anger, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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© Lis Lovén  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhine, adventure, song-
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry