Long Norse Poems
Long Norse Poems. Below are the most popular long Norse by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Norse poems by poem length and keyword.
Deor's LamentDeor's Lament
(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...
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Categories:
norse, destiny, england, fate, old, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Verse
A Weird Word Is Wyrd:The word Wyrd is Old English and means 'destiny'. From the same root comes Urd, one of the Norns, and the Germanic words Werth, Warth, and Wurth, which mean 'become'. The root word means 'to...
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Categories:
norse, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
Long Ago, Memories of a Cold Winter Night ConversationLong Ago, Memories Of A Cold Winter Night Conversation
(Narrative/Rhyme)
Hebridean isles, once sang to me in a dream,
She her beautiful hair silky, so very long
There rests magnificent treasure few ever find
A good poet would use it...
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Categories:
norse, art, best friend, imagination, lonely, solitude, winter,
Form:
Narrative
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother GooseA field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours truly
(an aspiring wordsmith) vamoose!
Hey diddle diddle the...
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Categories:
norse, 12th grade, adventure, age, animal, bird, color,
Form:
Rhyme
Norse Mythology, Return of the Slayer of DragonsNorse Mythology, Return Of The Slayer Of Dragons
( Part One, Darkness Arrives)
I - (THE PLEA)
Slayer of weak beasts, ravager of torn breasts
Darkness from East, dragons its armored crests
What hero dares to slay this foul evil
What...
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Categories:
norse, art, conflict, creation, destiny, fantasy, imagery, mythology,
Form:
Epic
MirmanthaWhat once was a peaceful, delightful place
Joyful and friendly creatures in God’s grace
A stunning morning, a soulful sunrise
A village heaven has gifted, a prize
The most grandiose of rainbow arches
The villagers, spirited because March is
The...
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Categories:
norse, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
Red Sunsets On the Blue HillsRed Sunsets On The Blue Hills
What of soft red sunsets on the blue hills
Or true love found in sweet dreams of the light
Just as night frights give deeper cold chills
Crimson sunsetting views show heaven's might.
Such...
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Categories:
norse, beautiful, imagery, red, sunset, symbolism, tribute, visionary,
Form:
Sonnet
Landsbyen-Into the North-An Epic PoemPlease note that this work is meant to follow in Epic Form and will not follow commonly used grammatical rules found in Prose, such as, not following proper paragraph use. Because it is an Epic...
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Categories:
norse, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell taleBrief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale
Living social amidst
crime infested urban jungle
bumping uglies cheek to jowl
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors
spurred subject matter in question
to journey...
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Categories:
norse, adventure, anger, animal, beach, beautiful, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
True Fake Story of a Vita Man JunkyTrue "FAKE" Story Of A Vita Man Junky
(any resemblance between this poem,
and living persons...iz purely coincidental.)
Ruthlessly abuzz in my mind
loosed another idea
for a poem asper
(wren)...
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Categories:
norse, 12th grade, 9th grade, magic, men, smart,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Being Proactive After Getting Hoodwinked(alternatively titled: tardy duff fender of assertiveness,
especially after adjusting following insanity clause
affixed with rubber baby-buggy bumpers)
Methinks I nearly got snookered
courtesy CVS employee at store number 7569
(address: 1206 North Gravel Pike,
Zieglerville, Pennsylvania 19492)
September ninth, two thousand...
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Categories:
norse, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, crazy, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Gods At the Comedy ClubThe house was full
Of Gods and deities
The curtain call was soon
The water vasos were poured
And became the finest of wines
The bread multiplied
The baker you see
Was a part time magician
The fishermen all relaxed
As I saw fish...
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Categories:
norse, art, butterfly, gothic, humorous, magic, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
The Til Valhalla ProjectA story to remind our soldiers on this Veteran’s Day…may you never feel misbegotten…
for all of you who have fought and fight for our freedom…shall never be forgotten:
He wore a black shirt into the bookstore…and...
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Categories:
norse, veterans day,
Form:
Rhyme
The Til Valhalla ProjectA story to remind our soldiers on this Veteran’s Day…may you never feel misbegotten…
for all of you who have fought and fight for our freedom…shall never be forgotten:
He wore a black shirt into the bookstore…and...
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Categories:
norse, veterans day,
Form:
Rhyme
Ragnarok: the StormWith the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle
In the forest crows the rooster
In the sky the sun does darken
In the cave...
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Categories:
norse, weather,
Form:
Epyllion
Homage To St MichaelA Knight from the vast Kingdom
of The King of Holy Throne.
Michael slept within a castle
on beds of peat moss, and of loam. ...
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Categories:
norse, dedication, faith, passion, peace, religion, heart, light,
Form:
Verse
LilizziI am Lilizzi, or the spirit of fire, I am the pure essence of the flame itself,
all fear and adore me. Does not every star in the heavens burn because of me?
Out of all four...
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Categories:
norse, fire, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Great Kilt- One of the Themes of ScotlandThe great kilt.
“Och aye the noo”
TraIs the cat deid? –
Has the cat died? your trousers are a bit short
– like a flag flying at half mast
Liken my great grandfather did why don’t you...
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Categories:
norse, adventure, analogy, clothes, history,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
W. E. B. Dubois (From Pages)Martin,
Not the German patrician, his vision was a stair
But our own peaceful prince
Well he invoked you
And not by calling Samuel back from the dead
He invoked you as seeker
He invoked as our searcher
For history, he said,...
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Categories:
norse, history, peopleme,
Form:
Free verse
Freyja's RivalFreyja’s Rival
( And may the Great Queen of the Norse Forgive me )
It’s a sun scintillation of a today
The sky a sharp atmospheric
Crystal blue chimes
Reaches to the untold dominion of stars
Crisp light softens the out...
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Categories:
norse, love, mysteryheart, blue, heart, me, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Mirror of a Son's EyesHe
has certainly
perfected the art
of being a smart a** -
a trait that swims like a tadpole
in his father’s gene pool
and nurtured by that very nature..
his tongue swells with sarcasm
his mouth just...
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Categories:
norse, art, feelings, imagination, life, mirror, mother, son,
Form:
Free verse
The Kensington Rune StoneExhilaration runs thorough every pore.
With time’s wisdom, my doubts have vacated,
My eyes have opened like never before.
New discoveries keep me elated.
The Kensington rune stone I learned today
May have been carried by the Norse blood line,
Along...
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Categories:
norse, education, history, inspirational, life, mystery, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
The VikingsHarsh winds blow from a baron frozen land,
Of ice and snow.
Exhaling Nordic gods breath a chilling mist
An eerie foggy vapor creeping along the
Waters aquatic edge.
Rages angry seas lap against the wooden
Hauls as battle harden...
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Categories:
norse, courage, dedication, history, imagination, inspirational, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
A God ThingFairhair’s youngest son the good, for peace trickery repaid, by hawk upon the knee Norse blood raised an English king, hid from the bloody...
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Categories:
norse, christian, conflict, culture, england, history, irony, war,
Form:
Free verse
Yggdrasil:In the middle of Asgard, where the Gods and Goddesses live, is Yggdrasil by name, the tree of life is its fame. The eternal green Ash tree, the branches stretching out over all the nine...
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Categories:
norse, mythology,
Form:
Narrative