Best Westwards Poems

Far away deep in the forest there lived a druid
It was a long journey of three to four days of
hard going with no real path to speak of.
Just little trails wandering through the trees
and up hills, then plunging down into hidden valleys.
Crimson Fire lived up...

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Stilled again across the canals broadening 
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions 
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the hot glare of the sun...
Provoking images and stirring indefinable feelings
That begin to irrevocably up and run;
Pictures and voices crowding...

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If i were an elephant,
   I hope i would be free.
   To roam the Sub-Sahara,
   And westwards to Mali.
   But freedoms fraught with danger,
   By mans ability.
   To hunt big game for pleasure,
...

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Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know 
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh to a monopoly
and the Cathay Tang kept up migration flow,
the...

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An evening breeze lonely thoughts flowed,
From my deepest core branching westwards
Water skipping across moonlit ocean aglow
An evening breeze. Lonely thoughts! - flowed
Ripples of silver hues oscillating slow
Stimulating a coupling of mystical words
An evening breeze lonely thoughts flowed
From my deepest core branching westwards!


This poem uses the...

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The Lotus Eaters - page 2 of 2

   Fed them the one food they adored.  In fact the only food they had in store.  Lotus blossoms, lotus leaves and lotus wine from lotus trees.  Lotus plants grew everywhere and made...

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I.
Zack stared out on the Indian Ocean
through which the adventure cruise made its way,
they were near the famed Andaman Islands,
and would probably reach them the next day.

He’d paid extra cash to come out this way,
to catch a glimpse of uncontacted tribes,
through field glasses though, they’d...

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The Lotus Eaters part 2 of 2
Fed them the one food they adored.  In fact the only food they had in store.
Lotus blossoms, lotus leaves and lotus wine from lotus trees.
Lotus plants grew everywhere and made men’s heads dance and forget their own land,...

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looking westwards,to clear blue sky,
yesterday's moon,whispers goodbye...

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Back in seventeen eighty-one
The revolution hit hard times,
Britain had taken Charlestown
And at Camden had crushed the lines

Of General Horatio Gates,
Leaving nobody to resist,
Except the Swamp Fox Marion
Who alone was able to persist.

South Carolina had fallen,
And Cornwallis was marching north,
The patriots had to stop him,
But could...

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This old road is wearing me down
7 more miles and I will be out of town

Ain’t got no wagon, and holes in my boots
Darn me; if the weather never suits 

Yeah

This old road is wearing me down
7 more miles and I will be out of...

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Billowing white
A tall masted ship
Gleaming wet
Sped on
In to a setting sun
 
Mizzen and top gallants flying
Such golden light
Fell upon a ship
That sped on 
In to the setting sun
 
Billowing white
Translucent too
Such golden llight
Fell upon a ship
That shone
On the big blue
In to the setting sun
 
She...

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IV.
Fronds whipped their faces, they dashed through the trees,
more shrill, raspy growls rose behind them,
creatures crashed through forest, giving them chase,
they weren’t that fast, but came relentlessly.

Like piranhas swarming, they just appeared,
in Zack’s peripheral vision more came,
he had no idea where they might run to,
just...

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Eastwards  Westwards
we know the direction
Playing tricks with the mind
We thought we knew the best
Down Convents Hill
the stone Angels sing
Desertion is not even an option
open the flanks
play your banjo
In evening we have everything to gain
in the holy calm
the marble passages
past our golden days...

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