The Chrysanthemum Throne
...In the ancient Empire of the Chrysanthemum Throne, horsemen riders from the southern regions, their steel swords close to their sides, clang heavily to their waist as they ride hard to the capital. B...
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Categories:
clansmen, analogy,
Form: Free verse
LOST SHINE IN DUST
...Vibrations burst in my muscles
Like warring armies of
Water and wave that
Surge to electrify a city--
I want to leap on the red hill
At the village arena
Like a mighty leopard
And pounce on ...
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Categories:
clansmen, change, culture,
Form: Free verse
The Spirits of Culloden
...The Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Pay...
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Categories:
clansmen, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial
Form: Rhyme
The Curse On My Lineage
...In These Days, We Prayed
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The Curse On My Linage
Oh linage
I now sit and wonder,
why thou have grown so slow in progress
And wasteful in resources.
Ah!...
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Categories:
clansmen, adventure, africa, age, allusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Return of the Piper
...Return of The Piper
The skirl of the pipes is carried on the wind
Purple heather moves in time with the sound
Dark clouds move in and cover the sky
His sanctuary the piper has found
Amid...
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Categories:
clansmen, fantasy, history, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Charlottesville
...I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.
I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slu...
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Categories:
clansmen, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
I Am Told
...I am told I’m a widow
that I lost my spouse times ago
this is wrong, wrong, wrong!
I have matrimonial husband
when he gets money
he drinks, dances, sings
and gets lost for many years
Clans...
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Categories:
clansmen, allegory, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Haiku: Traditional 27
...quail flush from thicket
lined freezing clansmen shooting
many birds die twice
Brian Johnston
March 27, 2016...
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Categories:
clansmen, death, family, life,
Form: Haiku
A Top a Highland Hill
...A Top A Highland Hill
A top a windswept highland hill above Locheil land
Clansmen gathered roun and shook the princes haun
They raised the standard high cheered till they were hoarse
Followed t...
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Categories:
clansmen, allegory, cry,
Form: Ballad
Songs of the River Goddess: I
...in those crevices of the ancient rock
within the deepset soul of my river
along the tight passages of my kin-folk
sings the singing goddess of my river –
& her songs awoke the sleepy moon
& her ...
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Categories:
clansmen, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
Champing At the Bit
...Today's Date July 24. 2015
Contest Entry---First written Spring 2015
game bullying, hero, silly, sports, strength, word play,,
Champing At the Bit! ©
I hear the roars in the almighty arena
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Categories:
clansmen, bullying, hero, silly, sports,
Form: Verse
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 08
...Brutus Iulius Trois page 08
Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement...
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Categories:
clansmen, history,
Form: Epic
My Clansmen, Tell Me
...my clansmen where is mother
where is our companion-she
where that amazon the gazelle
whose fast limbs are paradise-made
my clansmen: it pains it pains
like some delicate & new wounds
we have gone thr...
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Categories:
clansmen, death,
Form: I do not know?
The Ancestors of the Clan
...let’s remember the ancestors
the ancestors of the clan –
the infamous and un-kingly kings
celebrate their inglorious libations
all over my land, my clan –
but, my clansmen
let not the clan forget the...
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Categories:
clansmen, dedication, devotion, passion,
Form: I do not know?
All the Clan Claps and Sings
...may flowers are still beautiful
taking their resolute resolve
to shoot out
to sprout with
ever-new life
they come
home in beautiful colours
like weaver-birds
on the ancient trees
all the clan claps &...
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Categories:
clansmen, devotion, old, old,
Form: I do not know?
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