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Come o'er the saintsFall'n into the sear
In my stead, a curse to hither
'til my bones, my flesh shall disappear
Canst thou nought raise a blade of sweetened fear
A bane to a burdened forest
Heal him down a bow, to a...
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Categories:
death, fate, hate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Edinburgh
Castle
Soaring above
city streets old and new
Magnificent monumental
Stronghold
...
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Categories:
city, history,
Form: Cinquain
No Jail TimeWe all saw it
We all heard it
We all read it
And smelled it.
Meanwhile Deedeepee is rotting in jail
For probably having committed a similar crime
Some do the crime and others don’t do the time
Similarly, some go to...
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Categories:
history, america, bible, christian, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Gone, But Not ForgottenThese days the kids don’t learn
of what’s happened in turn,
they can’t tell you of World War II,
or when the White House burned.
Their classes all are lies,
since power hates the wise,
keep them dumb and it’s easy...
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Categories:
evil, freedom, history, how
Form: Rhyme
Weathered OpportunitiesBeyond the relics stance tainted feigned glory,
the achievers had gifted us their puzzles,
speckled based best in their field of theory,
like Baia hot baths, can't stomach its guzzles,
aloft or cavernous, or in a quarry,
like those...
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Categories:
conflict, history, money, passion,
Form: Ottava rima
A Dust Bowl of GlitterA blessed soul has won a role, The Prince of Peace,
Of noble birth, a novice born a blue-blood,
Pontificate average those brevities,
Stemmed full of thorns wrangled beneath his rosebud.
Won The Papal States, Mona Lisa smiled, lost,
His...
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Categories:
conflict, history, military, political,
Form: Rispetto
Categories:
history, humor,
Form: Monoku
This World is Not Yours
Alas, we are taught as children, this part of the God’s
Earth is all mine?
That might have been true, decades ago, but no longer
does that slogan shine!
I just hope that we do not blow each...
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Categories:
history, abuse, anger, bereavement, chanukah,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Vellupillai Prabahakaran: The True Tamil TigerBeneath the trees, a tale of a Tamil revolutionary,
As in history of tamils, the people viewed him as a legendary luminary.
'Thalaivar' the title he was given,
As his reputation was on a different level, when he...
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Categories:
dedication, history, tamil, war,
Form: Free verse
Boredom is the root of all evilWisdom was bored, so she left heaven’s serenity
Yaldabaoth was bored, so he formed the world we see
Saklas was bored, so he moulded man like you and me
Samael was bored, so he taught man...
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Categories:
evil, history, humanity, money,
Form: Rhyme
Liars' Fate
Joseph's brothers dipped his coat
into the blood of a goat
Jacobs said, My beloved son is surely gone
That was the robe he had on......
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Categories:
bible, history, integrity, jewish,
Form: Couplet
History of TattoosMummy from 3000 BC
Had a tattoo on its knee
Mustache ink above his lip
Mummy from Chilie, ink did drip
In the fifties tattoos became extinct
But today’s teenagers beg for their ink
Cultural identity now often seen
Spiritual beliefs on...
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Categories:
history,
Form: Rhyme
Antagonistic or ProtagonisticExtended Cultural Reaches
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entry themes and walk on music------------------
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They set the standards high
expecting alot from the
guys who were selected
to represent the covent title.
>064 Zinc plates Gold plated
beauty and magnificence
they kicked the ball around
awhile talking
often bragging
It was...
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Categories:
history, analogy, beautiful, clothes, education,
Form: Ballade
The Edged Effects Of Evil: Part 3He viewed his name as an awkward constitution for commoners to address so plainly and nonchalantly. Adolf held a preconceived opinion that a simplistic reversal of his name would suffice. To avoid an embarrassing brouhaha,...
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Categories:
history, betrayal, death, evil, fate,
Form: Narrative
RootsTell me
Can a tree without roots
Ever bear fruit?
Tell me
Can a ship without sails
Ever make haste in the boundless sea?
Death creeps, cloying
Knotted garters frayed
Under the sea the sirens wail
Forgotten, ignored
But for the ones who live on
The...
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Categories:
absence, fantasy, future, history,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of History Poems
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Poems Related to History
past, yesteryear, yesterday, antiquity, good old days, ancient times, bygone times, days of old, days of yore, old days, olden days, story, account, tale, record, annals, relation, biography, autobiography, recapitulation, saga, journal, narrative, recital, version, diary, narration, report, epic, prehistory, memoirs,