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Herds Poems - Poems about Herds

Where Are You Now, Gloria Dubbins?
...Gloria Dubbins - not much of a name, but trust me on my judgment, gentle reader; in terms of Beauty, she was Hall of Fame. We’re talking – let’s see – nineteen seventy-two, but I’m the keeper o......

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Categories: herds, nostalgia,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member I Shall Ever Be Who I am
...Inspired by Black Hole Love (Max Frost) ************************************************************** I Shall Ever Be Who I Am ......

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Categories: herds, i am, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Rhyme



The Child Won't Paint
..."He won’t paint", cried out the Father suspecting a flame of genius in the toddler’s eyes. The painterly parent bought paper, acrylics, oils, brushes, chalks, and crayons, not even a finger pa......

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Categories: herds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Howling Wilderness
...In the wind, hear a plaintive, mournful wail. It is more than a wolf caught in a trap. It's more than fishing gear catching a whale and rainforests being wiped from the map. It is a voice that ......

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Categories: herds, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Under My Washing Line
...I used to live at the foot of a lush, green hill whose high pastures fed dairy herds. When I stood under the washing line in my cottage garden and looked up, it appeared that the cattle were g......

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Categories: herds, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Wonder What Anne Frank Would Say
...Anne* Frank's earthly life, coldly cut short, yet, in our hearts and minds, she always lives, as, it seems, her spirit no one could thwart, nor the humanity her message gives. Sorry if I ......

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Categories: herds, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Russell Brand, Ayn Rand and Ray Milland Walk into a Bar
...So: thinker, “personality” and actor are looking for a drink. If two of them are trailers, one’s a tractor. “Nice counter-top. Real zinc?” “Don’t ask them stuff. They memorise words of bette......

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Categories: herds, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Way Of Spirit
... Where there is no Light, there is no Hope, so Burn Bright when the Spirit is withered, the Spirit is defiled where the worn-out paths weary out the Soul seek solace Inwards, there where the ......

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Categories: herds, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Why Your Cities Burn, Part VI
......Have you ever seen true madness take full possession of a man? Gobayth’s dreams of coming home were now all well and truly damned. It’s said he screamed for half the night, so much that it da......

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Categories: herds, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Why Your Cities Burn, Part V
......A jolt ran though the broken men, like wraiths they rose, streamed for the door, Gobayth waved them on until nobody remained anymore. They raced on towards the small hut where all of the pick......

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Categories: herds, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Why Your Cities Burn, Part I
...I’ve seen many look to the sky and to the gods earnestly plead, what sins have the committed that require so many to bleed? Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands, do things that make your stomach c......

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Categories: herds, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Tusk
...He came back wrong. They said he'd graze in peace, a living museum piece— proof we could right old wrongs. But the mammoth didn’t come back peaceful. He came back pissed. Like he remembered......

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Categories: herds, adventure, animal, evil,
Form: Free verse
Rush Hour
...I clock in my own breath, Minutes stack like folding chairs. My limbs queue for permission, Time herds me through its turnstiles. We all wear the same silence— Pressed suits, creased with wantin......

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Categories: herds, work,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Blue Nazarene
... “The Blue Nazarene” caeruleum caelum in nubibus caeruleum caeruleum caelum in nubibus de hyacintho nazarene testimonium: white stallions, clouds commandin......

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Categories: herds, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member le livre bleu
... “le livre bleu” Terabytes. lonely poets, writers, musicians and artists play here, they wear masks that cover vermillion dripping smiles over sharp little wolverine te......

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Categories: herds, muse,
Form: Free verse

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