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Flagons Poems - Poems about Flagons

Premium MemberDragon Head

...Heard my head screamin

My eyes couldn't see

Oh rum set me free

More flagons and mugs

But all my demons

Just won't let me be

So now all I see

Are dragons and thugs

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Categories: flagons, addiction,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHARVEST FESTIVAL

...Our summer crops are in and larders full
So we are now well stocked for winter’s worst
When we will face freezing Arctic attacks.
Our stock contains dried fruits, roots and nuts
Along with severa...
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Categories: flagons, celebration, food, winter,
Form: Blank verse



Mirza Ghalib English Translations 3

...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Urdu poems about speech, wine, Paradise, poets, poetry, words and grief. 

To hear my rose-bestrewing speech,
first place the flagon before me!
—Mirza Ghalib,...
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Categories: flagons, moon, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLegends

...Of Kings and Queens and magic rings

Sorcerers and Dragons

Of Knights and Squires and midnight fires

Wines from kegs and flagons

Of battles won beneath the sun

For castles in the sand
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Categories: flagons, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn Nodding

...though rather late, I woke up
i might have thought I wasted time in nodding
but what a wonderful dream I had

the hoary woods crew
danced on my eyelids
sourced balsam scent and poppies
the flo...
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Categories: flagons, celebration, joy, life, wisdom,
Form: Suzette Prime



Premium MemberA Paean To Bacchus

...Happy May Day, all you PS boys and girls...EVOE!

Squeeze a cherry and let it sit,
And don't forget to take out the pit.
Let it ferment,
At least a day as a rule,
To give it some zing
And a ki...
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Categories: flagons, humor, may, wine,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberKith and Kin

...Whether mine sails in torrents, or sunshine,
can walk on water or sinks beneath waves,
hubs always succeeds to lift me up.

Children, like flagons of ludicrous wine,
their knott...
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Categories: flagons, friendship, love,
Form: Curtal Sonnet

Broken

...She had the fixation of their closeness
Ubnormally,her heart flapping from left to right 
That night her table full of flagons
And every love film she saw was a hokum to her

Her thoughts flippe...
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Categories: flagons, betrayal, sorrow,
Form: ABC

Assimilation Arrows

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Revisionist lies sold as materialistic truth
American tagged merchandise
voter bazaar discount barter
Stars and Stripes twenty-one gun salute
Intellectual dishonesty ... shifting core ...
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Categories: flagons, metaphor, prejudice, symbolism, truth,
Form: Free verse

A True Story of Drinking

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A darkened world of dank false dreams, 
painted with whiskey to mask my screams, 

I'll blame the sun, the moon, the sky, 
I'll blame the well wishing passers by, 

I'll hide down deep i...
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Categories: flagons, addiction, literature,
Form: Free verse

Handmaiden Cupbearer

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Carry to the king full flagons of wine,
this is your handmaiden’s duty mercy divine
Free-flowing ambrosia nectar fruit
mixed with stolen, silk tears of satin soft slavery
Pear-shaped h...
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Categories: flagons, beauty, character, innocence, princess,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDinas Bran

...Dinas Bran

tell your tales 
share them with me
I have travelled far to listen

your walls remaining 
huddle forward like greyed old men
around a warming fire

let me sit quiet as the night...
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Categories: flagons, adventure,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn Turning Fifty Contest

...ON TURNING FIFTY

As my cousin turned fifty there was talk of AARP.

Two years behind Danny, I ask the million dollar question:

“What is AARP?” – “Oh you’ll find out,” my uncle laughs....
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Categories: flagons, age, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThen I Opened That Door

...Then I Opened That Door…

To The Question: “How was your Day?” came this response…

The other day I arrived at work and found my chair was gone.  Oh the Horrors!
No way to rest at my desk.  I lo...
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Categories: flagons, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse

12 Days of Kiss-Mas

...On the 12th day of kiss-mass my true love sent to me
12 dirty undies
11 socks a stinking
10 shoes a humming
9 shirts for pressing
8 trousers 
7 days of take-out boxes
6 flagons of beer
5 D V ...
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Categories: flagons, anniversary, caregiving, christmas, devotion,
Form: Lyric

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