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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......

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Categories: forbears, bird, dark, loss, sea,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: forbears, age,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Humility
... 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......

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Categories: forbears, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: forbears, courage, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: forbears, beautiful, boy, christian, first
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: forbears, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: forbears, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: forbears, dog, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: forbears, dog, humorous, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: forbears, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: forbears, allusion, analogy, car, career,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: forbears, abuse, adventure, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: forbears, beautiful, home, patriotic, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: forbears, freedom, remembrance day, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: forbears, discrimination, history,
Form: Quatrain

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