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A heroic couplet poem is a form of poetry constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines, but there is more to heroic couplets. What is a heroic couplet in poetry (complete definition)?
Syria Reborn
From Syria’s land where silence wept,
Our hopes arose. From grief they leapt.
Through broken streets and skies so grey,
We aimed for light with feet of clay.
We sang a song, so calm and rare,
Against the chains, against...
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Categories:
allegory, birth, change, emotions,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A Giving TreeA course-correction knife was plunged too late.
A smile was still, upon her lips, that date.
Clueless, for most of life, the cherries, green.
Her shoulder-bluffs and high-peak cheeks are seen.
She stands five feet, barely a statue-bold.
Appears quite...
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Categories:
imagery,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Evolutionary Letter Number SevenIs Harris is .a supporter of fracking ?
If she does Harris needs a good whacking.
She opposes the death penalty too
For the worst dregs of mankind what say you ?
And Harris states Bidenomics...
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Categories:
america,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A Precious Prayer PoemI live in a care home,I feel out of whack
I pray to Freyja,please give my legs back
One leg like wet pasta,other a short stump
Does she hear my plea, no ,I feel like a chump
She states...
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Categories:
humor, prayer,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Rocky Road of ContentmentRokatru runes of olive wood coming soon,
my heart and mind does drool for these new runes.
My runes charged . Hope my order show up late
Round disks of wisdom ,Odhin’s wisdom -I feel great.
Irate relation is...
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Categories:
angst, destiny, happiness,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Wyrd Wheel of Wonder and WoeI can do my rune rede uncorrupted.
The Ward nurses word can not be trusted.,
Nurse allows me to eat at the cafe,
I will be pissed off ,trusting them, led astray .
Will go outside on the...
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Categories:
deep, destiny,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Me and a TomcatI saw him walk outside my place
He caught my eyes with such a face.
He seemed he had no appetite
He was the same each day and night.
I felt for him as it was clear ...
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Categories:
age, animal, care, cat,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Schooldays OverThe auld fella’s auld fella left the tech
after Ripening for sixteen summers.
Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a
shovel and a pick at his lonely boots.
‘DIG’. he knew that Language. and by God
did he dig. there is a dignity
in breaking...
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Categories:
appreciation, grandfather, ireland, men,
Form: Heroic Couplet
AM Verses on a Sleepless NightIn what to me now seems like ages
I've only read some sundry pages;
Lord Byron, a Romantic poet,
was a dark wit; you'd just know it.
But I (yes, I!) know much better,
for I know it to...
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Categories:
allusion, animal, garden, metaphor,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Oneness PoemOneness (Real life Husband)
I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.
I love you with all my heart and soul.
Like the sky,you have embraced...
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Categories:
blessing, caregiving, celebration, family,
Form: Heroic Couplet
To Love, or Not to Love Perfected“To love, or not to love?” that is the point,
the focus which men lose beyond disjoint.
To be a god among men, and unloved,
is woe: even wild beasts are not unmoved
by these fragmented, lone, unearthly souls,
for...
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Categories:
allusion, god, hate, humanity,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Bereaved Avenges Herself against a Selfish LoverI may love you, once love is all I have;
someday, with tears I'll wash away your grave:
till then I curse you since you died at last,
leaving me broke, alone, going nowhere fast.
Despite young Cupid,...
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Categories:
allusion, betrayal, desire, extended
Form: Heroic Couplet
AugustAugust our sweltering month number 8
Named for Augustus Caesar, a god, but wait!
July already praised Julius Caesar, my heaven
Thus month number 5 became month number 7
Poor October who should be month number 8
Became month...
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Categories:
august, history,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Truth of HomeI’ve been away from home.
I need to end my roam.
I’ve been on many flights.
I’ve seen so many sights.
I’ve been to many lands,
And walked on different sands.
No land or soil did I enjoy,
As home was...
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Categories:
absence, feelings, first love,
Form: Heroic Couplet
If Only I Could Give To You My BestIf only I could give this world my best,
harbored in this port of call of restless
desires deep inside a ship in raging foam,
I’d find a way to make my way back home.
Digging...
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Categories:
allusion, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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