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Best Salisbury Poems

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Late Night On Salisbury Ave.
The meadow's radiance gradually dimmed
and evening littered far and wide
it encouraged the unfamiliar 
and everything uncertain.

The night accelerated sounds of anticipation 
as a thousand strangers...

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Categories: salisbury, faith, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Epyllion



Premium Member Egnehenots: Earth and Stone
Egnehenots – of earth and stone

Chief elder – most wise upon the Salisbury Plain
     an old man . . . ...

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Categories: salisbury, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seeker
Act 2, Scene 4.
The Salisbury plain. Within a henge, a watchfire burns. The Seer approaches The Seeker.

Take heed, my friend, our part in cosmic cheat
Plays...

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Categories: salisbury, humanity, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Visit Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a lovely place too be
A county with plenty of history
Neolithic rocks from north to south
You can even see a white horses mouth

With walks...

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Categories: salisbury, history, image, nature, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stonehenge
Ancient monument on the English Salisbury plain 
Called Stonehenge by name.

Large tall megalithic blocks
On a plain that has no rocks.

Myths and legends surround the stones
Dozen...

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Categories: salisbury, history
Form: Rhyme



World Peace
From Andover to Anaheim
Bangor to Boise
People speak up
Come on, get noisy

From Carteret in Jersey
To Cameroon far away
Speak up everyone
If just for one day

From Detroit to...

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Categories: salisbury, funny, peace, places, peace,
Form: Free verse
Food For Thought
After Eight Mints
Anchovies
Apple Pancakes
Applesauce
Atlantic Cod
Barbecue Sauce
Black Bean Soup
Blue Cheese
Blueberry Pancakes
Brussels Sprouts and Lamb
Buttermilk
Caribou Liver
Carrots
Cauliflower
Chicken Breast
Chicken Patty
Chicory Roots
Chocolate Pudding
Chocolate Pudding !!!
Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
Coffee Cake
Coleslaw
Donkey Balls
Dried Plums
Durian...

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Categories: salisbury, life, people, places, urban
Form: Free verse
Military Maneuvers
What turned my head to think I had a thread,
Folk thought I was lazy so I did something crazy.
Adventure was there, but afraid there'd be...

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Categories: salisbury, fun, military,
Form: Rhyme
The Haunting Mystery of Stonehenge
THE HAUNTING MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE


It’s a prehistoric landmark,
built five thousand years ago,
who actually constructed it,
we still don’t really know.
Standing near Salisbury, England
on the dusty northern...

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Categories: salisbury, beautiful, history, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain
The Man On the Train
I had been at College that evening
After work I was not thinking of anything
Just sitting down on the train all alone 
Wanting to just make...

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Categories: salisbury, death, poems, remembrance day,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In the Valley of Avalon
In The Valley Of Avalon

This day the master of my Fate
Is none of those who lead shuddering
Through mazes of wizardry,-
Nor Trachmyr the Hunstman,
Nor Tannwein the...

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Categories: salisbury, art, creation, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Once Upon a Time In Hong Kong
Away the land of the flame tree blossoms
  Orient blown athwart a yellow moon,
to hearken the far sound of dragon drums
  and ride...

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Categories: salisbury, adventure, sports, travel,
Form: Sonnet
The Joyous Partner the Microwave
the joyous partner the microwave
it has become my chef
alas not quite my mother's hand
but for its swiftness of foot
there is no other
yes i survive on...

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Categories: salisbury, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Sacred Spaces
The spaces once held sacred are destroyed
Like Salisbury plain where sheep could safely graze
Now for soldiers use and practice Wars

The Bedouin who inhabit deserts cry
The...

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Categories: salisbury, absence, abuse, allegory, war,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Oh My Golly So Jolly
I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows


While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth

Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship

	Blue...

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Categories: salisbury, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs