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Colonnades Poems - Poems about Colonnades

The Price of Freedom
...Consider for a moment freedom as a greedy banker. It does not sell the country perpetual security, liberty and happiness, it loans those qualities at a high rate of investment, and it does not allow ......

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Categories: colonnades, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Emptiness
...Crumbling colonnades, ivy laced, fronting fractured windows, ghost faced, where once a family was housed. Warped in time like a web, forgotten picture of the dead who here used to love, laugh, a......

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Categories: colonnades, age, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Glorious Autumn
...Autumn’s story is full of rustic shades that echo deep from every vale and hill of splendor and of forest colonnades, as one by one leaves float and spin and spill in frosted shadows and in ......

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Categories: colonnades, autumn, beauty, seasons,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member All In a Day At the Louvre
...Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime - majestic pyramid attracts my eye, mystique draws me in O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art, every square in......

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Categories: colonnades, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse
Mission San Juan Capistrano
...Mission jewel seen near ocean's close shore. Place where white gulls fly and breaking waves roar. Tiled roofs, colonnades all make a fine tour. Show birds nesting Babies resting Priest are chant......

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Categories: colonnades, religious,
Form: I do not know?



The Adventures of Enea, Part 8 of 13
...The Conference at Mantua Ah, what a scene of tranquil learnedness! The scholars nurse their tomes like babes in arms: white locks: heads cocked to savor the address of Pius, in his charming ......

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Categories: colonnades,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 2
...Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys established the best Superbowl Era dynasty with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw, a defense disciplined on shrapnel and......

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Categories: colonnades, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Singing Vincent Back To Life
...(A sonnet for the Bath busker who made me cry) Beneath the Stall Street Colonnades he sings Of Vincent and his starry, starry night The echo of his bright resounding strings Infusing scintillat......

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Categories: colonnades, art, beauty, death, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Corrupt
...The vice grip tightens, the juniper breeze blows Good and evil are as one and so very close Praise that which gives you what you will But is it truly what you need Finding bliss in ergonomic th......

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Categories: colonnades, dark,
Form: Free verse
Last Rite of Passage
...Last Rite of Passage (for Elizabeth) 30th January 03:11am Through towering colonnades of stars She rises with the daybreak's fire, As angels strum on lute and lyre And frost sparkles li......

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Categories: colonnades, bereavement, dedication, eulogy, family,
Form: Rhyme
Apotheosis
...idealism of youth mélange of dreams and prayers— disparate yet intertwined— assembled in their thunderous ranks to echo past myriad gleaming colonnades that buttress evermore eternity <>...

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Categories: colonnades, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Vietnam Quatrain
...Within my breast I carry ancient death; Its face is pale and white as marbled clay. Consumed with guilt, I struggle for each breath Still sour with napalm death of yesterday. The fractured ......

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Categories: colonnades, war,
Form: Quatrain
The Temple
...The temple was refined. High. With colonnades, folded in ivy and in myrtle. With wide gardens (for healing). It burns. For centuries, the shadows sealed. But you! Where are you going......

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Categories: colonnades, allegory
Form: Free verse
Karlovy Vary | a Czech City
...The spirit of the town has its own songs. Under the colonnades light of the past is breaking forth. Cobbled pavements -clear– blend with the presence. Over old roofs lingers music from Dv......

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Categories: colonnades, imagination
Form: Prose Poetry
Karlovy Vary
...Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) The thoughts of the town sing their songs. Under the colonnades light of the past is breaking forth. Cobbled pavements -clear– blend with ......

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Categories: colonnades, nature
Form: I do not know?

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