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Distant Drums Poems - Poems about Distant Drums

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Premium Member Our Hearts Will Lead Us Home
...In times of old I’ve heard it said, That all roads led to Rome. Now like the beating of distant drums, Our hearts are leading us home. It’s not the things that we possess, That reveals what we......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, creation, desire, destiny, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Our Deepest Desire
...In times of old I’ve heard it said, That all roads led to Rome. Now like the beating of distant drums, Our hearts are leading us home. It’s not the things that we possess, That reveal what we ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, creation, desire, destiny, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Child
...A child lights our way in life... The greatest gift there is to be. They suppress our selfish inclinations... They set our passions free. They give sense to our mortality. They put narcissism ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Canyon
... Distant drums voice sacred song as didgeridoo drone rings its messages to my awaiting ears; ancient ceremonies flood the canyon in tones of ancestral wisdom. Every rock or boulder......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, dance, family, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Vacuum Without Touch
...I would love to live forever In the minds and hearts of men As long as I could do it Without doing it again. I’d cherish every sunrise Tuck it in at night Arrest the failing moon For stealin......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, life, love,
Form: Rhyme



Eyes To Close
...I love the isolation, God help me but I do Being alone inside my words, neither old nor new The rumbling of the moment, the sound of distant drums My eyes to close upon myself —time now ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, words,
Form: Rhyme
Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel
...The trumpet will play a sweet prelude, to earth's last tired breath but Gabriel shall not call me I shall leave long before his dance of death The distant drums are what I hear playing across ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, angel, bible, birth, color,
Form: Rhyme
Battling Sadness
...Battling Sadness Morning light seeps through my bedroom curtains And the birds are sounding from outside I've been laid here now for several hours Tears burn trails down my cheeks either side ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, depression,
Form: Verse
Dream Theme Andaree
...Dream Theme Andaree Come listen how the thunder rolls with its might Like distant drums it echoes through the night ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Momentary
...The journey here on this good earth Is something dear for life seeks mirth. The poise of cheer now sings of lines Of waves sincere in love divine. The passage greets not one but all In t......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, change,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A New Reality
...You touch my battered heart Like the feathered wings of angels, You burst from my poor eyes Like the tears of awakened love. You flood perfume scarred lungs Like the scent of summer roses, ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Roy Sang
...an" and "Dream Baby" so loud I was mesmerized the first time I heard Roy Orbison sing "The Crowd" There was "Evergreen", Working For The Man" and "Leah" in the year of 62 "In Dreams" , "Falling" , "Distant Drums" and I still love "Blue Bayou" Roy rocked the house with "Mean Woman Blues" "What'd I Say" made us put on our dancing shoes "Indian Summer", "Indian Wedding", "She Wears My Ring" "O......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, music, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Ramabifi Hills
...RAMABIFI HILLS I hear distant drums sounding loud, I hear trumpets echoing tonight, Oh, I can hear their warm and quiet conversations, I guess they are on the way to Ramabifi Hills! It is a clear a......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, nostalgia, me,
Form: ABC
Portrait of An Addict
...From tottering infantile footsteps Gangly adolescence and vibrant youth Desire to taste forbidden fruits Hobnob with society discards Ever beckoned by distant drums Weird people practising witchcraf......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Obsession
...Like distant drums in rhythm pound Endless rows of human kind Marching soldiers cross the ground Towards some battle line Bound to those who went before Obsessed in savage pride Forge blindly to the ......Read the rest...
Categories: distant drums, war,
Form: Free verse

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