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Grendel Poems - Poems about Grendel

Birthright

...Is  Harry Potter hero or the son of nepotism ?
Did you notice Parvati or a pinch of Racism? 

Where tempests do come and go
Were Grendel and Caliban really the foe? 

Where perfect is hour glas...

Categories: grendel, anti bullying, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Birthright

...Is  Harry Potter hero or the son of nepotism ?
Did you notice Parvati or a pinch of Racism? 

Where tempests do come and go
Were Grendel and Caliban really the foe? 

Where perfect is hour glas...

Categories: grendel, anti bullying, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Grins and Groaners: Folio 2

...Q: What would Roy Rogers have been called if he had been a singing farmer?
A: King of the Plowboys.

Q: In the Beowulf saga, who was a male child of the hag Grendel?
A: A real sonofawitch.

Q: ...

Categories: grendel, humor,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Beowulf translation by Michael R Burch

...Beowulf Excerpts
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes
whose clan-than...

Categories: grendel, courage, dream, heart, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Paradise For the Grendel

...Standing on the mountain of Kilimanjaro,
Enduring hardship for centuries,
Forcefully uprooted from Savannah,
And crying for the moribund race.

Remembering the bootless slavery,
Discourteously ...

Categories: grendel, africa, anger, sad, satire,
Form: Free verse

Submerge

...Dipping into Beowulf with Grendel,
  and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales;
  Wading into Paradise with Milton,
  then submerging with the Bard:
  Sinking deep into Lear and Othello 
  Hamlet and Macbe...

Categories: grendel, ocean, poetry, poets, voyage,
Form: Sonnet

Upon Beowulf's Trail

...Upon Beowulf's Trail

Dare I attempt to travel upon Beowulf's trail
slay dark beasts and sweetest glory seek.
Walk within deep shades of both Heaven and Hell
sword protecting innocent, lame and ...

Categories: grendel, age, appreciation, art, creation,
Form: Rhyme

Grendel's Supper

...Written by Gail DeBole  
and included in PS: It's Poetry
A PoetrySoup.com anthology published in 2020

Note: Grendel was the monster in the old English Heroic poem titled Beowolf written b...

Categories: grendel, adventure, evil, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme