Long Days of yore Poems
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War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
days of yore, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times.
She’s a queen who sees her lover...
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Categories:
days of yore, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
RewindRewind
By Julia Shaw
At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so...
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Categories:
days of yore, appreciation, child, daughter, life, nostalgia, time, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Me, Set Me FreeI am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From the dawn of creation, in the Holy Books I’m told
A...
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Categories:
days of yore, cancer, creation, environment, health, inspirational, nature, planet,
Form:
Ode
Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone AgeThough I wrote no book
attention summoned to look
at following--->>>
Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age
predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...
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Categories:
days of yore, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and StrengthMy ebbing physical prowess and strength
noticeably decreases in one direction.
I take lock, stock and barrel
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his...
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Categories:
days of yore, 12th grade, adventure, age, angst, atheist, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflecting On Police BrutalityIt was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion
through southern Spain, across Gibraltar’s Strait
and into the exotic northern tip of Africa.
I remember...
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Categories:
days of yore, violence, prejudice,
Form:
Prose
Poetic Paean To Papa's PrincessPoetic paean to papa's princess
Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,
whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially after dirty deeds done...
generating thunderstruck ac/dc current
hmm... maybe due comeuppance
being scammed to the hilt)
suspicion...
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Categories:
days of yore, absence, abuse, angel, anniversary, appreciation, betrayal, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode On a Painting"Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks" _ Greek philosopher, Plutarch
O hearts that breathe with nature breath!
O eyes that dipped in heaven's wine!
O souls in world of pain who...
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Categories:
days of yore, adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing, life, longing, lost,
Form:
Ode
Obliviousness Concerning Lapsed Driver License(alternate title: days of yore bubba's zayda
flush with buggy boo horse sense).
Norristown City Hall police person
informed yours truly
on September 15th, 2020
mine automotive driver license expired,
thus between January 13th 2019
and September 17th, 2020
I drove automobile,
(whether borrowed...
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Categories:
days of yore, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, appreciation, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Gerund Farming, Tilling, and Harvesting Illogical WeltanschauungMine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung
Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent emasculation abominable barrack
emergent deus ex machina,
one common Joe biden his time
for no particular
rhyme...
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Categories:
days of yore, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd grade, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and StrengthI take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his Macbook Pro
today February 20, 2021.
Since January thirteenth of this year
(two thousand and...
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Categories:
days of yore, 12th grade, confusion, courage, death, depression, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
Earthly To Heavenly MansionEARTHLY TO HEAVENLY MANSION
When I think of a Mansion I think,
of one with “Vintage appeal,”
Stone architecture, welcoming pillars,
A monumental royalty feel.
Great palms and great magnolia trees,
Defining the estate’s history,
Pathways of fragrant...
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Categories:
days of yore, home, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Oliver and FamilyWhen I was young and fate was kind
To every wish, I had in mind
No appetite for greater gloom
Betrayed the joy that lit my room
Where nothing but the night is black
And black is never dark...
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Categories:
days of yore, betrayal, bullying, conflict, courage, destiny, endurance, england,
Form:
Epic
After The FloodWritten: April 12, 2024
Rumi Quote: "I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light"
1st place contest winner
...
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Categories:
days of yore, analogy, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
The Scenes: the First Gladiators of Romei.
At the centre of the world:
Back in the Roman days of yore--
A voice echoed, that decreed
To a crowd of commons, lost and unsure:
"Our rivers run dried, the Wrath of Gods,
Needs must be pacified
By human blood,...
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Categories:
days of yore, historymen, rose,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Complaint Part 3Both heights and lowlands we traversed to spread Your message; O glad pain!
Not even once, You know well, we strove against the world in vain.
Not only land we bore Your Word glorious across the heaving...
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Categories:
days of yore, allah, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Queen MaryA floating grand duchess of her time,
Moored and held captive, by chains of elegance.
The great lady, holds her head up high, with prides honor,
Befitting such as her station allows, behold she is the
Queen Mary,...
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Categories:
days of yore, adventure, history, inspirational, international, mystery, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Choking Back the TearsChoking Back The Tears!
This papa did accurately
surmise undeclared war
strong armed lance pierced my armour,
ah...how fondly he recalls
early fatherhood days of yore,
when daddy's first born girl
did effusively adore
yours truly, he likened self as topnotch
trooper, who mustered...
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Categories:
days of yore, betrayal, conflict, daughter, grave, heartbroken, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Death By Dreaming"death by dreaming"
it seems it
was "I'm Only
Sleeping" was
playing from
a neighbor's
window
when
though he wasn't
a salesman Death
came knocking
at his door
seems
He didn't come
to see about the
shrubs yet it was
growing closer
to the closing
of October
when
the no he wasn't
Willie Loman was
caught coughing
while...
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Categories:
days of yore, 2nd grade,
Form:
Ballad
Nostalgia For Yesteryear of Boyhood(originally composed approximately a half
dozen plus years since this revision now,
September 13th 2018 ~ 12:48 ante meridiem,
which missive, I came across scrolling down
volatile Memory Lane.)
As my recent blank day of birth...
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Categories:
days of yore, 12th grade, 9th grade, devotion, eulogy, farewell,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Lost Cities of Indus ValeI hail thee ruins of Indus Vale!
With scented rhyme, with scented gale
Come on from world of mortal dead!
O come and lively wind inhale!
More ancient than the pyramids
That rule on ancient Egypt land
Thy...
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Categories:
days of yore, adventure, god, history, loneliness, loss, lost, world,
Form:
Ode
Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone AgeImpossible mission, nonetheless
eschatological, diabolical, critical...
dire straits betokens armageddon.
Come Tuesday, November 3, 2020
mandatory voting obligation to oust
horrible malevolent commander in chief.
Spanish and English writing on border wall
bespeaks impending apocalyptic windfall
weapons of mass destruction concomitant ashfall
brinkmanship ticks...
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Categories:
days of yore, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Political Verse
Resurrected Graves of MemoryIn depth, in graves of memory
...
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Categories:
days of yore, memory, missing you, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
Silver JourneyIn moonlit night , in silver shine
From heavens I in this world peep
In my soul silver intervine
With body on the earth it leap
No chart in hands, no light Divine
That showed me way in shadows deep
For...
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Categories:
days of yore, angel, color, cool, imagination, longing, lost, silver,
Form:
Ballad