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Common Land
Common Land Poems - Poems about Common Land
Rip Tide
...Rip tide A current That takes you out beyond your control The only way to save yourself is to just swim sideways along the shore Somehow we are all caught in a wild riptide Swimming stupidly per......
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©
Ingrid Showalter Swift
Categories:
common land,
political,
Form:
Free verse
April
...Towards the middle of the April the wind changes and the showers fall, We hide under the branches of an old fir tree sheltering from the rain, All is well as the rain sweeps across the shallow mead......
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©
Terry Trainor
Categories:
common land,
april,
Form:
Ballad
Forbidden
...~ZOMBIE NIGHT~ WHINING WHISPERS MOVE ACROSS FORBIDDEN LAND Rugged ruins crumble silent through the night Echoes of the dead roam the air Moonlight vanishes to complete despair Bones slowly de......
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Poet Destroyer A
Categories:
common land,
confusion, death, halloween, horror,
Form:
Free verse
The Stench of Power
...Only bold , italics , The stench of power There’s a common smell of bull*****been spreading through this land Blair and Brown once had the power to spend spend spend out of hand......
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©
Paul Smith
Categories:
common land,
political, people, green, people,
Form:
Lyric
The Herder
...The Herder Words are racing by as a yacht making blue water white. Should I now think in nautical terms, say, a bad seascape painting of crested waves, which looks like clotted cream? When I’m......
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©
Jan Oskar Hansen
Categories:
common land,
history
Form:
Prose Poetry
Another
...Here I stand once again, in a temporary state of lucidity. vivid, and clear Is this mental panoramic vista So I know I have times before been in this vascinity Of this chaotic interlude in my m......
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©
Shawn Gorsick
Categories:
common land,
faithlost, lost,
Form:
Ballad
Lines That Are Not Meant To Be Crossed
...No more lines, The papers black, the page is full, so take yours back, no more drama, no more pain, and though the lines, erased in vain, could not save, her mortal soul, her heart is now......
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Jezabella Singe
Categories:
common land,
fantasyheart, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Vignette-Under the Greenwood Tree
...On common land,within the wood Eking a living as best they could, Betwixt Roundhead & Cavalier,they stood- These children of the new forest Adventures filled ,with youthful zest. (Frederick Ma......
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©
Brian Strand
Categories:
common land,
childhood, people,
Form:
Narrative