Yeats' Beau Fled With Rhyme And Reason
When You Are Old Poetry Contest
Sara Kendrick
Yeats' poem describes his courtship that sank
With his misconnection he is bitter
And he takes digs at his beau's true glitter
Alluding that his fire drew her blank
He paints a now-and-then picture of her
Saying he'd be the one holding her hand
Should old age leave her without charm and bland
Yet she
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Categories:
fled, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
I fled
No trepidation or fear
Of want or rejection
Could hinder my
Escape from your
Clouded vision
I am weary of
Your daunting
Heartless ways
Once the pitter
Patter of your steps
Tandemly danced with
My heartbeats of love
Now tears rain where
Sunbeams once rose
Seeking the stars
A cajoled existence
I fled
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Categories:
fled, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Where has youth fled
A child asks ‘Why?’
An old man cries
Where has youth fled
Lacking curiosity
~ his child is dead
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Categories:
fled, child, cry, farewell, old,
Form: Rhyme
With All Voices Fled
With all voices fled
Her's, included
This evening, further off
Eves now mythic
Is what's heard, despite
This blowy night
Not that, as dream-craved, midst
Fairy music?
Or, whispery, one
But found among
An exile-hearted land;
Ghostly tragic?
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Categories:
fled, voice,
Form: Rhyme
They've Gone
Your children are dead.
Go now and lay down your head.
They've fled, it is said.
(Jul 2022)
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Categories:
fled, child, children, death,
Form: Senryu
Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost and Love Fled
Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost And Love Fled
(Youth, Dreams And Reality Series) poem number 1)
Like lake June swans once so were she and I
Passionate romance money cannot buy
Coupled and in heart's fervor we stood
Giving into our fever all we could
She the flighted arrow, I the strong bow
In our innocent youth fearing no blows
Living love's
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Categories:
fled, art, creation, deep, symbolism,
Form: Romanticism
Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day, Verses Born From the Illusion of Immortality, 1977 Part One
Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day,
( verses born from the illusion of immortality, 1977)
Part One
As I went beyond that black veil,
Having trod this earth and seen hell,
I look back while daring to say,
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
Yes, youth was fine
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Categories:
fled, appreciation, art, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Fred Fled
She had
got mad
and threw
a shoe
he tucked
and ducked
and ran
from Jan
Oh Fred
she said
you make
me ache
Allow
me now
To take
a break
Goodbye
A sigh
12-17-2020
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Categories:
fled, fun, goodbye,
Form: Footle
Where Fled the Tenderness
Where has the romance gone
moonlit nights kissing 'til dawn
Where fled the tenderness
from our love once so strong
Where are the conversations
that used to matter so much
Where are the magic moments
when our fingertips touched
Where are the sparks that flew
from our hearts to our minds
Who uncoupled our souls
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Categories:
fled, care, kiss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
To a Rural Village Fled --- Oh, Irony
Won't look a stranger in the eye
She never ever would say Hi
Security is tight at home
Ten hidden cameras eyes do roam
Afraid to let her children play
Outside where they might go astray
Inside she fears the internet
Where bullies are a constant threat
She prays that school
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Categories:
fled, fear, irony, moving on,
Form: Kyrielle
Youth Fled Away, Time Has Shifted
Youth Fled Away, Time Has Shifted
Youth fled away, time has shifted
that cumbersome dark veil lifted
With more Light, my eyes can now see
that lost lad hiding within me.
Years bring wisdom if one lets it
so pay heed, do not forget it
Temptation says, let us do that
for risking is where cool is at.
Yet what else can human life
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Categories:
fled, art, fate, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Mildred Fled
Mildred fled when Joe asked her if she
would let him see 'below' for a fee.
As she shot to a run
though, thread caught and unspun...
So instead, Joe got showed it for free!
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Categories:
fled, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick
The Raven Has Fled- Part Two
The closer you get
The more they seem to move
As their shapes become giant
And your hopes then behoove
Now anchored offshore
With the dinghy in place
You can see them more clearly
Each shape and each face
Like monolithic Gods
They reign high on the hill
Looking down on who enter
With a warning that’s shrill
But where are the people
The Island is bare
Just giant
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Categories:
fled, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Raven Has Fled- Part One
The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool
A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With doldrums eclipsed
By the light of new stars
The lands will seem foreign
The people most strange
But they’ll smile as you pass
And call you by name
You run and you run
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Categories:
fled, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Raven Has Fled
“The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool”
A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With doldrums eclipsed
By the light of new stars
The lands will seem foreign
The people most strange
But they’ll smile as you pass
And call
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Categories:
fled,
Form: Rhyme
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