Hilts Poems - Poems about Hilts

Hazards of Heart - Choose Your Ending

...her heart hangs in halves
hollowed and hinged upon hooks
his halo now horns
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Categories: hilts, heart,
Form: Senryu

Scotsman's Warmth

...
Bagpipes conveying the delight
Of a country filled with insight
Swinging their kilts in accord
With their song of joy, so adored
They color the world in green
Appreciating the good que...

Categories: hilts, appreciation, blessing, community, history,
Form: Rhyme

A Christmass Gift That Slippery Slope

...I walk back
Along the path
That once
Filled me
With tribulation
Each bend
And stumbling block
Another knife
In me back
I still see
Anger
Splayed across faces
And hands
Going for hilts
W...

Categories: hilts, history,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Tear-Tainted Sail

...In the beginning this boat was bare, 
Greenest with infant's sinless stare; 
Before soles more selfish than sane
Had trodden its dreary derelict main. 

First to blacken its still-tiptop form 
...

Categories: hilts, age, allegory, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Elegy

Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 7

...Chapter..........1..........Part..........1..........4.

Now, mighty ones, 
I return to sing the song of Alahsar,
now, come with me,
once more, let us stand in the priceless dream,
like the eag...

Categories: hilts, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic

The Hero At the Gates, Part Iii

...III.
He was dragged into the king’s audience room,
the queen and several children were there,
tears streaked down Queen Endela’s handsome face,
she clearly knew a mother’s worst despair.

The k...

Categories: hilts, betrayal, community, conflict, fantasy,
Form: Epic

to the hilt -

...
brash …

you are
my petite paramour
the 'alternative' thang goin’ on
dyed, purple-red hair
perfectly-placed piercings and tats
(just enough to tantalize)
though nothing could befuddle the
...

Categories: hilts, analogy, break up, dark,
Form: Free verse

Chapter Zero

...Embrace me 
When the world forgets 
When the clouds drift by, unnoticed

Embrace me 
Like the gentle breeze raging on
A starlit, night sky, an illusion
passing me by untethered

Embrace me w...

Categories: hilts, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, love,
Form: Free verse

At the Bend.

...At the bend of the road
A variant lizard basking
Approaching a golden mask
Created by the galloping sun.

The scenic valley cut in two
By bulldozers and their men
Where hills learned to smoke
...

Categories: hilts, allegory
Form: I do not know?

Victory

...((Sequel to 'Battle'))

Silence.
Men marched, out of step
Away from the rising sun that cast the sodden ground
In shades of blood.
Heavy, blistered feet
Clad in boots of worn and faded leather...

Categories: hilts, death, history, war
Form: Free verse

Jailyard Blues

...Time stands still for the cooler king, 
Hey, Hilts, throw the baseball and 
Don't sweat a thing; 
Listen up close and the bell will ring 
And the cons in their cradles will swing and swing.

Th...

Categories: hilts, life, people, social, visionary,
Form: Verse