A Little Shepherdess
...Blue faded.
The same horizon, the same clouds
changed by brushes from an impressionist painter.
The lavender sky blushes
and the crest of the cheery trees beams
as the wind hums, enticing belat...
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Categories:
bowmen, beauty, nature, romance,
Form: Free verse
Agincourt
...Agincourt
Bowman, thou art fit and strong,
Armed with a bow, six foot long,
A weapon made, for war and death,
Defend the right, til your last breath.
Draw me an arrow, straight and long,
Ai...
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Categories:
bowmen, history,
Form: Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 76
...The night sky was dark but for the beam of light that glared through the trees before them as they walked into the woods. Joulupukki and Lumi were careful not to get to close to the humans in front ...
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Categories:
bowmen, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Sonnet 13 the Battle of Marston Moor
...Five Thousand Men! Blood flowing in the creek,
The deadly sweep and ‘whisst!’ of footman’s pike,
The cavalry broke through where lines were weak!
The smell of grass and loam, a caltrop’s* spike
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Categories:
bowmen, death, death of a
Form: Sonnet
Something In the Air
...Peacefully we chose to rest setting up our camp.
I was with the troops at sun rise before the arrow storm began.
Hailing from the sky and whistling down upon our ranks.
Sprouting from our throats,...
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Categories:
bowmen, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Stephanus Marcus 16
...Stephanus Marcus Book 1
Canto 4
Verse 1
In line against the foe doth Marcus wait.
His charger plays the clay with right hoof strike.
The other knights point steeds' heads forward straight
and l...
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Categories:
bowmen, england,
Form: Rhyme
The Bruce, I Will Stand
...I will stand in the heather,
I will stand in the glen,
I'll defend my Bannockburn,
With horse, pike and men.
As Bruce I command,
As Robert I will die,
But not on this day,
For English souls ...
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Categories:
bowmen, courage, history, military, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
A Cream of a Castle Is a Cantering Caterer
...Bendy old whales taste like snails doing a backflip. But swarms of over eighty nine peonies are closely followed by nine bulls, an elephant tribe, a beetle colony and a party of laughing butterflies....
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Categories:
bowmen, art, assonance, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
John Cavanagh
...John Cavanagh is thought to be,
The most respectable man in archery,
He fell down a cliff in Switzerland,
And now shoots a compound bow, hand.
He was born the 21st July in 1956,
His Para c...
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Categories:
bowmen, confidence, destiny, dream, health,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Friend Or Foe?
...The bowmen stepped up to the line
with a twinkle in his eye;
he knocked a feathered arrow,
and set a single shaft to fly.
The paper gnomes in pendulous sleeves
about painted maidens lurked;
t...
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Categories:
bowmen, funny
Form: Quatrain