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Best Tolkien Poems

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Premium Member One Tolkien Over the Line
He was a writer, a fighter, an old-timer word rhymer
Always thought free verse was asinine
He was the queerest, the dearest, the tear in your beer-est
and...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tolkien, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Another Day
A torch carried on forever, indeed,
for the aggressive rhymer in me,
is alive again, unshackled and freed,
rising to challenge another day, I see.

As I found myself...

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Categories: tolkien, art, life, poets, success,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Slumber
Repulsive Slumber  

Down the basement, 
not a single color of envy,
flat-lines, are standing still all around.
The stillness is suffocating,
everything coming my way.
Different from,
the morals,
of...

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Categories: tolkien, dedication, slam,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Tolkien's Journey
Tempest gone, darkened skies have all blown past,
tho' blue grey dawn laughs at my feeble fist. 

A knight's heart equanimity lost...  
thrown now into...

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Categories: tolkien, angst, memorial, song, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time
"All we have to decide is what to do with 
            the time that...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tolkien, time,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member For Chan Hurst - a Life Too Brief
With these twelve words...

art has no restrains 
there is nothing that can chain it down
no fabric that can not be broken from.

*FoRm?
>that de...pe...nd...s.<
WHAT duz iT reSEMble
fOrM...

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Categories: tolkien, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
In Memory of Chan Hurst-The Archaic Poet
Brother,you were a human torch

in a melanchonic orbit

of undefined wars

Now you are a pentagram star

mystical and magical

Pouring light and love

from a happier place

from behind heaven...

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Categories: tolkien, absence, angel, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror

Do not lie. I know that you want to. 
I know that you may need to.  
I am broken, and soon…
You will be...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tolkien, 12th grade, cinderella, happy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Fashion Zebra
The Fashion Zebra

I am a flake. 
That is the term for people that do not follow through. 
It may not be fair. I have spent...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tolkien, freedom, funny, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sequestered In My Cozy Nook
I have known:
   of wise detectives catching crooks
   of "Thought Police" revising books
   a shipwrecked family named Robinson
 ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tolkien, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring Sonata

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. - J....

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Categories: tolkien, spring,
Form: Free verse
What To Read
Read Tolkien
Read Howard Fast
     Asimov 
is sure to last
    as we walk 
omto the 21st
   ...

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Categories: tolkien, angst, art, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Art
It influenced the style of Bruce Lee
It intrigued the mind of Tolkien 
It inspires us to be free
Often it encourages me

It lurks in the dark
It...

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Categories: tolkien, inspiration, passion,
Form: Lyric
Wish
I wish I could have 
    seen Theodore Roosevelt 
Eugene Debs, Calvin Coolidge
    speak their minds
I wish I could...

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Categories: tolkien, memory, time, time, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Loose Magic
Loose Magic

Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose, 
and not your toes. 
Skipping rocks, 
and bubbles in the park. 

Eye contact from across the room, 
notes...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tolkien, angel, anniversary, beauty, bible,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things