Every Remaining Last God
...Covered by cloud the out-of-sight tops of soaring towers,
Buckling under their own weight, beginning to topple from
Those airy heights;
The gaping breach - the once impregnable outer wall!
The i...
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Categories:
longships, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Take a Walk To the Pencil
...Taking the bus down the Clyde coast
to the lovely coastal town of Largs
where there is a walk along the seafront
often the winds blowing so many flags
There are nice grassy slopes around
bring...
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Categories:
longships, life, nature, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Viking Warfare
...I left my home, the world to roam
it’s been now twelve years gone.
From a boy to a man
was a dreadful short span,
as I journeyed to valleys beyond.
Now the king, he has spoken
and battle has br...
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Categories:
longships, conflict, courage, hero, men,
Form: Rhyme
Longships
...Casting
off the
shores,
bound for
faraway lands.
Setting
sail on
dark seas,
uncertain,
unknown
the travails
that await.
Crew steeled
for
adventure
exploration
fame
glory.
No...
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Categories:
longships, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Artumes Armies
...Harken...those hollowing drums
Over cold vales so beat,
Exhorting a multitude of glistening
Star-tipped spears,
As marching over shattered landscapes
In shinning replete:
Crunch Artumes eterna...
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Categories:
longships, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked Afloat
...WICKED AFLOAT
He asails the Irish dawn-- avidly tore a hole in yellows
She in dreams --awaits his eyes blue-cast amidst the ice fog-- eagerly searches
Other maddened icebo...
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Categories:
longships, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Cerulean Odyssey One, 5-8
...5
morning soon with cobalt sunrise
scarlet banners in the sea
pockets of fog hang in the balance
weights and counterweights prepare
to launch another day of searching
shark infested mine fiel...
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Categories:
longships, allegory, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Epic