Bivouac Poems

Brexit

...I hardly brew coffee alongside the metaphor of
English mornings blended with summer’s febrile breath.
But, on this occasion, I did....
It was a stifling moment on television.
The social media was...
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Categories: bivouac, political,
Form: Free verse

Ancient Ones

...I often sit in quiet contemplation of my surroundings. In silent observation I process the changes that nature presents, just for my viewing pleasure. Through the changes of the seasons I watch plant...
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Categories: bivouac, age,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberDanke Bitte Und Mehr

...Danke Bitte und Mehr
David J Walker

It was a land of foreign thought
And I was the denizen drifter
In uniform that hid my ignorance 
and poverty
In an OD Green costume that was
Barely me 
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Categories: bivouac, analogy, community,
Form: Rhyme

A Band Donned Around Ring Finger of Left Hand

...A band donned... Around ring finger of left hand

Yes folks (meaning,
whomever espies these lines) alas and alack
I attest thy spouse located future heirloom -
while tentatively asleep in her bi...
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Categories: bivouac, adventure, blessing, depression, destiny,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBeat Generation

...Long arm gendarme
My mistake namaste
Backpack bivouac
On the Road with Kerouac

Brilliant stars, silent nights
Fireflies, Northern Lights
Mountain streams, fresh air
Fall asleep anyw...
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Categories: bivouac, addiction, america, freedom, literature,
Form: Rhyme


Unraveling Life

...We set up our bivouac of life
by the world's battlefield,
It befits us then 
that we live not in peace
nor die free from strife.

There’s got to be more to life 
than work, marriage and kids,
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Categories: bivouac, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Grandpa

...He taught me how to catch a trout,
To take it home and clean it out.
Fillet the bone from head to tail,
With nothing, but knife and pail.

He taught me how to bivouac,
To stake a tent and find ...
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Categories: bivouac, character,
Form: Rhyme

Borodino Part 1 By Mikhail Lermontov

...Guv, tell me, not without the reason
our Moscow in the fired treason
was burnt and left for French.
Oh, there were fights I see their splendours 
so awesome and we have the embers,
No wonder Rus...
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Categories: bivouac, anger, conflict, memory, murder,
Form: Heroic Couplet

A Tragic Pilgrimage

...The pilgrims wash
their inner stains out
with the wet words
in Uttarakhand, the
land of gods.

The unexpected flood
 rises above all her
expected blessings. 
Her father floats away
like an ...
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Categories: bivouac, death, life, lust,
Form: Free verse

Sweet Illusion

...The morning falls from wings of day
                                      beaming light in the fields of hay
                               and thine smile is now in sight
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Categories: bivouac, crush, cry, feelings, first
Form: I do not know?

Harmony

...In the bivouac field of life's main
All things are uncertain
From the wide spread of the elms 
'Til the motion of the films.

A life's solemn swear
Is not to let the tear
Drop in vainless mort...
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Categories: bivouac, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Quivers Full of Arrows

...When a puny mind 
with no virtue of humility
Tries to reach the heights above 
But threatened by a fall into 
the depths below
A life with no intentional destiny
No bivouac 
No ideal but tediu...
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Categories: bivouac, confusion, identity,
Form: Classicism

Uncle Peacock

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                                  Uncle Peacock was a cock of the walk
                                   Chucked his job to camp in a bivouac
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Categories: bivouac, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

How We Enter Paradise

...Ode to a canvas print

Background: a sullen sky, pale 
light at horizon. Green-water sea 
of snowcapped swells, hint of 
nightfall in the breaking waves. 

Foreground: a bivouac of logs stand ...
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Categories: bivouac, fantasy,
Form: Ballad

Bivouac Jack

...SingleSting MingleFling
 GreatFate MateDate
  KissBliss MissPriss
   EagleSpread RegalBed
    GownDown FrownDrown
     RudeDude NudePrude
      SlyTry ThighHigh
       FlankSpank DankCrank
        Sl...
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Categories: bivouac, family,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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