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Long Maypole Poems

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The Rites of Spring
Excitedly we travelled to the fair.
   As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
   Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
   Dewdrops mirror, broken pearlstrings falling.
   Sunshine...

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Categories: maypole, spring, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mystery of May
I was an unfathomable mystery writer, producing novels for ardent readers,
Much like a mystery of vanishing pearly moon, as sun comes up to greet her.

My days were spent devising fresh plots, like edgy seas, seeking...

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Categories: maypole, fantasy, imagery, may, missing, mystery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Paroxetine
I

I am disinfected, sanitised from touch and eyes
Do not hold me. I am Bakelite and you smolder
Sat solid, the wall cold against my spine. A back-rest 
To concrete electrocution. 
I am distilled from Suburbia and...

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Categories: maypole, me, parents, me, parents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ents Are Tree-Lings That Walk and Talk
Imagine if seeds of trees hatched to Tree-lings.
Seedlings with two trunk legs and root feet
Bodies like humans covered in bark
Arm branches with finger shoots and leaves
Head with eyes, nose, ears and mouth
Like those cut into...

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Categories: maypole, mythology, tree,
Form: Free verse
Princess Sarah
Your chosen name was Sarah
So named many moons ago

Nursing my growing belly
Consumed by the moonlight glow

Watching above twinkling starlight
So planned whole life with you

Thinking before you were born
As Sarah inside me grew

You were my total...

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Categories: maypole, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Mysrey of Girls
The Mystery Of Girls.

When I was just a nipper
And I was very small
I didn’t really like girls
At all

I found most were very spiteful
And when at primary school
No one wanted to kiss me
When we played in...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maypole, childhood, first love, funny love, girl, girlfriend,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Life Is Like a Maypole
~~

I recall the time my parents created a maypole,
                       in our backyard to...

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Categories: maypole, celebration, childhood, happiness, memory,
Form: Narrative
I Saw My Mother
The other day, I saw my mother sitting in a chair.
She was staring at the TV, but she knew that I was there.
The television was not on; it had been off all day.
I don't know...

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Categories: maypole, addiction, mother, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crowned May Queen
Crowned May Queen


As the music flows in my mind and soul in cheer
I dance around on my toes in the sun kissed fragrant fields
of wildflowers and tall emerald green grass yields
With a breath of life...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maypole, celebration,
Form: Quintilla
Two Reflecting Mirrors: a Love Poem
I remember the bedspread upon which we slept, checkered and wrinkled;
I remember the green plastic cups and cigarette butts, littered.
I remember a painted face, laughing as we danced on Halloween,
The lines of cocaine on the...

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© K. E. Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maypole, addiction, conflict, heartbroken, love, sexy, suicide, true
Form: Free verse
Hello! My Yellow Gerber Daisy Bodhisattva Woman!
I


Won’t You come imbibe golden
icicle Satori with Me?


You say it’s my decision
 to make
              With softly chosen plans, 

You say it’s up...

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Categories: maypole, devotion, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Is Like a Maypole
LIFE IS LIKE A MAYPOLE

Outstretch above are blue skies and golden sunshine
as train of threads is softly thug and braid to a pole.
Behold, this sky high pole of bright crayon colors,
they speak slowly about life...

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Categories: maypole, beautiful, color, imagery, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Lonely Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud* 
to places far and wide
I often thought it would be fun 
to rain down on a bride
Or maybe on a summer Fete
as rain is something people hate
When dressed up...

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Categories: maypole, fun, rain, summer, sunshine,
Form: Personification
Another Memory To Keep-First May Contest
May the first is traditionally the beginning of Spring
St Joseph is their patron saint this day to be 
the  only free day when no workers  joined
the throng of people shuffling looking already tired
to...

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Categories: maypole, day, spring,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Junior School
Morning assembly
Classroom hell
Couldn't count couldn't spel
School books and fountain pens
Playing in the playground with all my friends
Gobstoppers and chewing gum
Plastic sandals boys shorts to hide your bum
Wax crayons and powder paint
Rembrandt I never was and...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maypole, childhood, fun, funny, humor, humorous, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May Queen
As the music flows in my mind and soul, 
I dance around in the sun kissed fragrant fields, 
of wildflowers and tall emerald green grass. 
With a breath of life, the day is near, ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maypole, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Maypole
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                                  ...

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Categories: maypole, day, may,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Blessed Be
Lady, weave Your circle tight
With a web of living light 
Earth and Air and Fire and Water
Bind us to you.


MacDermot, the Prince of Coolavin came
to Connachta a fair maiden to win,
as the maypole rose a...

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Categories: maypole, princess, spring, symbolism,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Names and Memory Games
over the bridge
  to 'western street
&parminters for savoury
    sausage meat

along by
            the slaughterhouse
in silver lane
pop into jones&cocks
  out of...

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Categories: maypole, memory, nostalgia, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Walpurgis
A Night of Walpurgis
By Sy Roth

The April moon hung in the sky
Full, like nightshade fighting off the darkness
The strident masses hung about the street corners
Chests puffed out readying to rid the night 
With Walpurgis bonfires...

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© Sy Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maypole, allegory, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mid-Summer Night Dream
Once upon a time in the land of the Hobbits, 
Fili was annoyed.  He wanted excitement.
He was the youngest of the twelve dwarves,
Dressed in a blue cloak and sporting a yellow beard,
He entered into...

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Categories: maypole, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Maypole
I remember it well.
The feeling was swell.
It happened once a year;
An event most precious and dear.
The fragrance was in the air.

It was still mid-Spring, but from the sky,
There protruded the aroma of summer.
I hasten to...

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Categories: maypole, childhood, may,
Form: Verse
A Conversation With Steven-His Battle With Aides
i have seen my death
wrapped around a maypole
waving four corners in the wind
hauntingly
playing 
peek-a-boo with my soul

i have seen my death
as i march onto the battlefield
aimed to kill
that which threatens my very existence
my right to...

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Categories: maypole, death, loss, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Personification
For May
May, sensuous and fresh, I wait
For you to come down the rock gate
Eyes sunlit and dreaming
Bosom flowered with charm of late
While boyhood confused hesitate
For your abrupt leaving

I have longed since then to behold
Long legged like...

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Categories: maypole, childhood, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
I Need To Walk Around This Place
I need to walk I need to stroll I need to explore these ancient paths
That fills this landscape showing the way for timeless travel
To reach destinations deep inside the forest or on a Maypole green
Or...

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Categories: maypole, faith, inspirational, philosophy, socialbeauty, beauty, creation, day,
Form: Iambic Pentameter