Canute Poems - Poems about Canute

...THE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH For some, an imminent death is quite OK Especially if by then, they’ve had their day It’s that or continued chronic pain, anyway But the decision should only ever be t......

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...King Canute would play his flute, And dance upon his nose; And all the while a symphony He’d languidly compose. ......

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... Summer decay is all around Autumn with stealth creeps slowly in Robin is happy making trilling sound Mother Nature busy she will always win. Like Canute, we cannot halt the tide Seas......

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...King Canute barking at the waves watchdog......

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...The stupidity of man The leaders of Europe are gripped by a collective madness Like swimmers in a river feeling the pull of the current, think There is time to swim ashore where banks are not so......

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...languid doldrums, swaying lanyard, sails hanging loose dreary small drums reverberate, neurons dumbing down nerve ends fuse, sunlit shadows depict my numbing frown feelings grind dull,......

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...My poems are growing longer When reciting I run out of puff My lungs, once much stronger Struggle with long-winded stuff So, I'm writing this short refrain To curb my penchant to ramble I'm t......

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...A chronological anthology Of legends, folk lore and mythology There’s no one called Eric Or Ethel or Derek For which I shall make no apology Samson just got himself sheared Delilah had cut of......

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...William the First was our last king to come uninvited though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted. Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt. Native kings had the habit of getting ......

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...Roman conquest introduced new religion law and customs. Christianization was also influenced by Celtic Christianity and it was sanctioned through the ages. Many of our priests went straight to ......

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...We live on the idyllic Island of Cyprus. In 2008 this place became home for us. Surrounded by The Mediterranean Sea, It is that very sea than unnerved me. I have spent many hours down at the bea......

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...We throw away everything We produce too much We damage the earth We do ourselves a great harm A wasteful society we are We use up and pollute Sparing no thought for tomorrow Earth is a b......

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...A Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk premises at 1148 Greentree Lane his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s Dunkirk ire and vindictiveness akin......

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...A Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk premises at 1148 Greentree Lane his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s Dunkirk ire and vindictiveness akin......

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...Sharp, the chill sends messages bleeding Icicles along the contours of my very spine, Lashing out in my brain, Truth targeting each cell it can locate or define. I am King Canute sat on the s......

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