Forbears Poems - Poems about Forbears

The Wanderer, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...The Wanderer, Part II

Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves,
the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers,
the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling…

Th...

Secrets

...The secrets of a mother are gemuine and true
The sufferings of a father go beyond the grass on yohr feet but are always untold
I struggle with my father’s footsteps
Sometimes I walk a little strai...

Humility

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Humbleness
(Free Verse)

Humble is a man who prefers 
To take fresh air in his garden
Than waste his time in a pub,
To be dressed in simple clothing
Than in expensive high class dresses
Tha...

This banks in the tank'

...Is Mc'quarie bank loosing the plot? as it dreams gray digits
And attempts in fact a blot.! To remove the lifelines of cheuqe and cash, that bedrock.' Australia this is like a sneak attack smash grab...

I Saw Your Face

...Saw your face and noticed
The reflection in your eyes. 
And peered into your lovely soul
As well as the hidden lies.
I know they tried pulling away
Your heart from mine
But I knew that if I sta...

Shaky Spear

...How did Shakespeare acquire that name,
Many years ago
Were his forbears cowards
And is this why it's so
Shakespeare is not a common name
I don't think so anyway
I am curious from whence it came...

Brownian Motion Writ Large

...Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium 
as light brainstorm doth 
hail forth the following poem.

Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuron...

The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write

...[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry
alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy.
The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there 
She’s ...

The Neptunes Daughter

...Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’
The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water
For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold
They let him ...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (ma...

Excavator Gave Him Navigator

...That’s the job that gave him Navigator
After goodbye to Lift Operator;
Months on the TV as Moderator
And a US firms Gum Distributor…

But Bruce had not wanted Excavator,
Rather Peace-Keeping as...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance Second Cell

...Artfully dodging explosive solutions
pretending shackles restrained prisoner 
lobbed pseudo Molotov cocktails 
kindly, loosely, and mutinously linkedin 
liberal short (make believe) chain
leashe...

Cornwall Is My Homeland

...Cornwall is my homeland
And it will always be,
A large part of it surrounded,
Surrounded by the sea.

Cornwall is my homeland,
It’s where my roots are deep,
And this connection with my forbear...

Greek Revolution 25 March 1821

...Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep!
Do not be disturbed.
We,
your descendants would never betray
The blood you have shed to liberate
Our land.
The Land of:
Homer and Hesiod
Aeschylus and Eur...

Women In Chains Then and Again

...UNDER THE GLASS CEILING part 1

Mary and Angelica ,ladies of great renown
Painters extraordinaire in Ol' London town
Still life,portraits & history on a grand scale-
Left out of a group painting...

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