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Best Roanoke Poems


Roanoke
Well and they came by sea in the 17th century. They had the highest of hopes as they did come ashore the wild wood lands. And setting up housekeeping they were in the best of spirits in the beginning. But in need of more supplies,...

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© Bo Lanier  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roanoke, confusion, hope, horror, missing,
Form: Free verse
Deaths of Two Roanoke Reporters
Deaths of Two Roanoke Reporters

As we progress along but some times precursor
To things happening and then becoming worser
Again, another bad thing just had been done
Reporter and photographer were shot by a handgun.

Not only that, on live TV all of this was reported
A women to be...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roanoke, death, horror,
Form: Couplet
Roanoke
Well and they came by sea in the 17 century. They had the highest of hopes as they did come ashore the wild wood lands. And setting up housekeeping they were in the best of spirits in the beginning. But in need of more supplies,...

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© Bo Lanier  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roanoke, adventure, fear, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Ballad of Agnes Bean
From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jail in the rain.

Four jailer badge enter, unbolted the door
Jabbed, jolted...

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Categories: roanoke, abuse, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry