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Laid Low(P) Poems - Poems about Laid Low(P)

Waldere modern English translation by Michael R Burch
...WALDERE: MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATION “Waldere” is an ancient Old English (i.e., Anglo-Saxon) poem that recounts the exploits of Walter of Aquitaine, a legendary king of the Visigoths. In the poem W......

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Categories: laid low(p), courage, death, grave, heart,
Form: Free verse
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...It was 2039, a nation laid low, A once-proud land, now shrouded in woe. We stood on the brink, victorious near, But the invaders' shadow cast our darkest year. It began in '21, a fateful day......

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Categories: laid low(p), 10th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme



UNHEARD
..."a featured poem in THE LANGUAGE OF LONELY SHADOWS ANTHOLOGY BY POET MISHECK Y KACHISUZI" THE UNHEARD A forgotten melody Blows through the windows of pain Tears fall, doubts remain A sorr......

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Categories: laid low(p), 9th grade, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Justice Served in Blue and White
...Part I: "Shadow of Intent" Beneath the blaze of summer skies— A couple met by fate; She lived where marble towers rise, While he bore fortune's weight. His la......

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Categories: laid low(p), murder,
Form: Rhyme
Authenticity
...Unveiled and untethered , I stand tall , A reflection of truth , without disguise or fall. No masks to hide , no scripts to recite , My soul's raw beauty , in pain sight. The armor shed , the w......

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Categories: laid low(p), identity, image, introspection, journey,
Form: Rhyme



The Age Of Man
...The Age of Man We carried on The age of man Till moon of tin bore An electric sun And all machines Shone bright and clean Keeping silent But wanting more Till the purpose mind Did lo......

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Categories: laid low(p), earth, future, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Within The Realm
...On ruby red sunsets demise Etched on gravestones sorrow Below the beds of cobblestones Less compromised then when alive Lie the fallen upon the morrow From the depths of empty wells Fire d......

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Categories: laid low(p), absence, deep, image, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Age of Man
...The Age of Man We carried on The age of man Till moon of tin bore An electric sun And all machines Shone bright and clean Keeping silent But wanting more Till the purpose mind Did lo......

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Categories: laid low(p), computer, culture, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It
...I’ve got it - woot! Well, we’ve (Lisa and I) have it. The Covid. After living carefully serpentine lives - for the last half decade - we both have it. Lisa started feeling pun......

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Categories: laid low(p), family, fate, friendship, health,
Form: Free verse
Migrant
...Incomers From the middle east and Africa, people seek European shores dispossessed and poverty struck, they seek, a better life a promised life of democracy and work for everyone Many, when rea......

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Categories: laid low(p), anti bullying, arabic, color,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Postures of Prayer
...When prostrate down before Thee, Laid low in earnest prayer; Thy hand doth there attend me, And you assure me; “I am there.” When reaching up to Thee, Hands high in fervent prayer; Thy gaze ......

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Categories: laid low(p), bible, blessing, devotion, faith,
Form: Didactic
The Song of Valen
...I carry the blood of Vikings A Norse woman have proven to be the same blood my ancestral father warmed With mead for he set off to sea Should I be conquered or defenses laid low Is not from......

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Categories: laid low(p), fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Widow In Her Cabin, Part Ii
...“I haven’t seen you at all in the town, never got the chance to talk until now.” He introduced himself, she did the same, but he struggled to get more than her name, of strangers Joanne seemed no......

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Categories: laid low(p), desire, family, heartbreak, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Clerihew Tennyson
...Alfred Tennyson was created a Lord but his poetry ever strikes a chord He suffered an emotional blow when fellow poet-rebel.Hallam was laid low......

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Categories: laid low(p), people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Boris Is Going
...Do you remember Boris; back in 2020 A virus was about to break, yet people None the wiser ' at first he said no real Big stuff, along with Holland we should face it tough.' he'd been briefed the......

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Categories: laid low(p), allusion, analogy, anger, anti
Form: Verse

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