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Betide Poems - Poems about Betide

Daring Dead

...Dour-faced servants, thunderbolts, towering bad days.
Will or reason? Time, truth, dolts! Dynamite dismays!
Suffering, you heard the man! Damn you, let us in!
Hell and Heaven, what's the plan? Spa...
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Categories: betide, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Twin Talents

...Twins two headed, thy talents.
What on earth to say?
O kings majestic, paid rents?
Otherwise dismay!

Viralized infection?
Excuse means cut it out.
Downward thy direction?
Challenger lost his...
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Categories: betide, allegory,
Form: Rhyme



Fall Forms

...Allusions lead to absence?
Believe it, sir and ma'am.
Hold the door? Then get ye hence?
Why the constant slam?

Truth be told, the terror tells.
Tollbooth of the dead.
Nebula, will-o-the-wells...
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Categories: betide, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Trickle Fickle

...Trickle, river fickle.
Step lively by the side.
Fate, thy strictures tickle!
Hell, Heaven, woe betide!

Wind atop the high cliff wall?
Funeral, thy pall.
Cherry blossoms, heft to haul.
End Ti...
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Categories: betide, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMirran’s Choice

...Young Mirran lived in Calder wood
all of her spells were for the good
in helping out where e’er she could
But Mirran had a plan
And oft times she would sit and brood
about a mortal man

‘It’s ...
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Categories: betide, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe logical conclusion'

...Such great insight, from Ezra Pound.'
Concise; and yet? Fantastic.!
Truly sound' at this current time he is
Fully in stride, voicing all the insanitys.'
So should we? ignore him?
Then its 'woe b...
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Categories: betide, education,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOther Worldly Help

...
She took long strides by the seaside, 
Weary and world-worried, she cried, 
The waves crashed in a misty roar, 
Etching frowns in a frothy hoar, 
She wondered at what w...
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Categories: betide, anxiety, imagination, sea,
Form: Rondeau

Premium Membercat o' 9 tales

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“cat o' 9 tales”

Like a cat has 9 lives 
every witch in every Lilith 
lives to write another day

woe bedtide the poor oaf 
who gets in Her way
like Heathcliffe he’ll b...
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Categories: betide, dark, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Witches Fayre

...gather wares for market day
and cauldrons of the land
baneful stock for the boiling pot
before the evening’s end

tankards spill and taverns heave
upon these Beltane days
see magic folk and so...
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Categories: betide, dark, fantasy, fun, magic,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Power Within : Embracing Challenges with Confidence

...O Captain! my Captain!

In the face of darkness and despair,
I stand tall with unwavering might.
With courage and strength, I declare,
I fear no hardship, no fright.

Through the storms of lif...
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Categories: betide, courage, endurance, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberA Mountain-Moving Love

...Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
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Categories: betide, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Common Fate

...A common fate befalls all men,
Ere since the fall in fair Eden.
Whether dirt poor or filthy rich,
all men end up in the same ditch.

The common fate has no regard,
for the respected or blackgua...
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Categories: betide, death, fate, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Life Lessons I Learned Too Late

...Through the veiled shadow of my past, I find, 
Lessons unlearned, I was far too disinclined. 
The tart whispers of regret, a mournful song, 
I realize times in my life where I went wrong.

In th...
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Categories: betide, angst, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSoul Battle

...Written: October 05, 2023
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Where the paradisiacal angels reside.
A myriad of creatures, ebony and betide
A dinkum dissolut...
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Categories: betide, analogy, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPoe's Untimely Demise

...*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to be among my bes...
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Categories: betide, horror,
Form: Rhyme

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