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Cannae Poems - Poems about Cannae


Stay At Home
...Said Seamus to his wife, with a wink Since I cannae go out for a drink I'm sure me and you Can find something to do Let me hug you, while both of us think......

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Categories: cannae, home, ireland, marriage, romance,
Form: Limerick
A Tale To Tell
...Now, gather ye roond an ye listen well. I have me a story, I have a tale tae tell, Of a young man born near these hills of green Who wandered these dales and was again never seen Why he went......

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Categories: cannae, evil, fantasy, fate,
Form: Rhyme



Mornin' Efter
...A dinae ken ma purage frae ma ale Ma heed is burlin roon, a canae stan’ A’m no the yin tae swalie toast sae stale an’ cannae yet get up withoot a han’......

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Categories: cannae, drink,
Form: Rhyme
The Road Home From Glasgow Airport
...The road home from Glasgow airport Tyres in front crying on my windscreen Combine with the pain from the dark clouds That blanket the horizon Make a misty view. Hard to see The wipers canna......

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Categories: cannae, family,
Form: Free verse
Out Flanking the Phalanx
...Out Flanking The Phalanx Roman Soldiers like to drink So I sent them out to battle Hannibal A simple mission not for sober men First to the Cannae Battle, 216 BC with lots of sun and debauchery Then......

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Categories: cannae, conflict, confusion, history, old,
Form: Free verse



Beyond the Dungeon Door
...O Catie love ye do ask too much of a poor scribbling poet to ask him to open the doors so ye can view the terrible thing he knows himself to be. All men and mayhap women too know what terrors hide ......

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Categories: cannae, imaginationlove, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sometimes I Dream
...sometimes i dream of things that seem unnessesary things i wish i had and my heart pains at the joy i think.. i will posses if i acquire these my mentality blinding that which i can really see ......

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Categories: cannae, lifeheart, heart, endurance,
Form: I do not know?
A Trip Doon the Watter
...Sailin doon the watter, Frae Glesga tae Dunoon, Wae the paddles at thur fullest, We'd get ther awfy soon, The music played as we stood on deck, An the sights so much tae see, Doon past Dumbar......

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Categories: cannae, adventure, places, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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