Ides Of March Poems - Poems about Ides Of March

This week is bleak, the birds don’t sing No sun, no rains, but greyness Even the churchbells didn’t ring Have they become atheists The bellman and the bearded dean And all the congregation? In times like this to breathe is sin No promise of salvation Can take away the truth it fakes And like a stubborn stem Grows through the slab, the truth condemns...

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‘Beware the Ides of March.‘ (Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2) a week from Saturday is the Ides of March perhaps I will stay home by myself better keep an eye on the dogs though they might have heard of Julius and get some strange ideas ...

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I suppise its been coming, yet its a sad day to see, Rupert Lowe, has been shopped; on some discrepacy? I have no more To put here.' I shall wait as must all..Yet a black flag it is Apparant is now farages livery.' Let This be a lesson on Not how to fall.'...

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This day in early March sings in a gust of wind it brings the season’s change life I’ve known rearranged one day warm the next cold nature’s changing moods to behold when each day when I’m awake nature’s tempestuous moods to partake. Talk of the weather brings smiles and frowns what goes up also goes down and as we face our days of strife the next...

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The virtues, sacrificed By muscling vices, Lay dying Across the dusty crusts of Earth. The sky, once admirably azure, Now bleeds dark streams of gray Above the sight of flying vultures Flapping, circling in wait....

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The ides of March sing consideration for widows who must accept that new name. The guides of March bring realization: life, as it was, will never be the same. The tides of March trace recalibration as adjustments to the world we re-frame. I confide this March in my Salvation. Where do skeptics go in grief’s waiting game? The offsides of...

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Named for the God of War but trickster is your nature. Each year you bring the prospect of spring. Yet your deceit hides that promise under your cloak of white. I should know better, but you understand how much I need to believe your promises. Beware the Ides of March. Julius did not heed the...

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Beware The Ides of March 2023 Ides simply referred to first new moon, which usually fell between the thirteenth and fifteenth day of a given month. The following events all occurred fifteenth of March across span of millenniums. One: Assassination of fifty five year old Julius Caesar, 44 Before Common Era Two thousand and sixty seven years ago conspirators led by...

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Lately, the hedges go unclipped as apples lay rotting on the ground...

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The Ides of March, oh woe betide Twas on this day that Caesar died Stabbed by his double-dealing men Remorselessly, time and again. Twenty-three times the knives were thrust; Take care therefore in whom ye trust. 09.04.2022 Bite Size Poem No.43 Poetry Contest Sponsor - Line Gauthier...

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(I posted this and found out one line did not rhyme, so I had to adjust the second limerick) That the Ides of March we should beware is a quote which is not really fair. Shakespeare wrote it; it stuck and it now means bad luck. Of its meaning few folks are aware! The Ides of March used to denote the New...

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breeze with green leaves compose new melodies wild bamboos play fluent flute --- ballet dance of flowers Bluebells painted sky canopy curls furls lily white clouds form world maps --- sun feels shy of shining birds and beasts play around in merriment bees and flies fresh nectar hunt --- snakes end hibernation golden glitters spread around land and seas smiles of heaven seen...

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first new moon the time to celebrate and rejoice darkness and light in equal measure seedling breaks ground a change of weather stirs conversations in the wind winter melds into spring conversations in the wind a change of weather stirs seedlings break ground in equal measure darkness and light to celebrate and rejoice the time first new moon March 31,2022 Ides of March Contest...

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*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT. The Ides of March Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow, vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed eternal ... plus righteousness, escapism from existence ... edges evacuation, Birth ere the latter days ... ventured the laurels that were Rome, the incarnation of iniquity ... masquerade innocence, like clovers and thistles ......

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Every culture has its special calendar days of note We have Easter and Christmas, and the day we vote, The Romans marked their calendar for the 74th day Festivals and gatherings made it a special holiday It was known as the deadline for settling up debts And, historically, it became a day of Roman regret On March 15 [on our calendar],...

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