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Long Canute Poems

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What a Waste
We throw away everything
We produce too much
We damage the earth 
We do ourselves a great harm 

A wasteful society we are
We use up and pollute
Sparing no thought for tomorrow

Earth is a bountiful place
It can meet...

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Categories: canute, allegory, day, society, planet,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Legandary - For: Your Favourite Legend Contest
A chronological anthology
Of legends, folk lore and mythology
There’s no one called Eric
Or Ethel or Derek
For which I shall make no apology

Samson just got himself sheared
Delilah had cut off his beard
She cut off his hair
Then headed...

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Categories: canute, hero, myth, mythology,
Form: Limerick
You Don'T Have To Speak English Well, Or Even At All, To Be a British Monarch
William the First was our last king to come uninvited
though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted.

Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt.
Native kings had the habit of getting thrown out.

In the War of the...

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Categories: canute, england,
Form: Couplet
The Ghost of Bill Zison
A Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk
   premises at 1148 Greentree Lane
his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s 
Dunkirk
  ire and vindictiveness akin to...

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Categories: canute, funny, husband, introspection, me, me, , cute,
Form: Light Verse
The Ghost of Bill Zison
A Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk
   premises at 1148 Greentree Lane
his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s 
Dunkirk
  ire and vindictiveness akin to...

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Categories: canute, funny, husband, introspection, me, me, , cute,
Form: Light Verse



A Short Poem
My poems are growing longer
When reciting I run out of puff
My lungs, once much stronger
Struggle with long-winded stuff

So, I'm writing this short refrain
To curb my penchant to ramble
I'm trying my best to abstain
From including excess...

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© Kevin Dale  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canute, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Sense
languid doldrums, swaying lanyard, sails hanging loose

  dreary small drums reverberate, neurons dumbing down

  nerve ends fuse, sunlit shadows depict my numbing frown

  feelings grind dull, thoughts stranded in the dangling sluice


...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canute, allegory, feelings, senses,
Form: Verse
Relentless Sea
We live on the idyllic Island of Cyprus.
In 2008 this place became home for us.
Surrounded by The Mediterranean  Sea,
It is that very sea than unnerved me.
I have spent many hours down at the beach,
Always...

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Categories: canute, confidence, encouraging, life,
Form: Rhyme
Forever Lost
Sharp, the chill sends messages bleeding 
Icicles along the contours of my very spine, 
Lashing out in my brain, 
Truth targeting each cell it can locate or define. 
I am King Canute sat on the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canute, death, lost love, sad, me,
Form: Verse
THE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH
THE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH

For some, an imminent death is quite OK
Especially if by then, they’ve had their day
It’s that or continued chronic pain, anyway
But the decision should only ever be theirs
Not even by someone...

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Categories: canute, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Stupidity of Man
The stupidity of man

The leaders of Europe are gripped by a collective madness
Like swimmers in a river feeling the pull of the current, think
There is time to swim ashore where banks are not so tall.
The...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canute, adventure, feelings,
Form: Verse
Ten Centuries of Our Heritage
Roman conquest introduced new religion
law and customs.
Christianization was also influenced by Celtic Christianity
and it was sanctioned through the ages.

Many of our priests went straight to God
as stones thrown on entrenchments,
persecuted, tortured, martyred,
only because of their...

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Categories: canute, spiritual, , cute,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things