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Mitre Poems - Poems about Mitre

Premium Member Crwth
...With arched and columned mitre, it’s ample. Some people love patter: finger plucking, then stutter— harmony to the letter. ......

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Categories: mitre, music,
Form: Englyn
Premium Member A Crown's Desire
...In power's shadowed halls, where destinies lie, Two titans faced off, ambition held high. Henry, the monarch, resolute and strong, Clement, the Pontiff, with justice lifelong. Henry, a Tud......

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Categories: mitre, divorce, history, london, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



An Atheist Shakes the Bishop's Hand
...The ring depicts a promise of fidelity. I smile as you stand in your cloak. That headgear is the symbol of the tongues of fire. I smile as you receive that formal mitre, while that pastoral staff......

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Categories: mitre, christian, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pompous Ceremony
...The lightly fizzing mood I've felt all day and fenced within a grin is at odds with the stoppered solemnity of this pompous ceremony I've had to attend and is becoming harder to hold, slow......

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Categories: mitre, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh Death
...Oh Death, grant me organic mirth Return to earth ‘neath lifeless moon Undo the tendrils that hold sway Allow embrace of Mother’s womb For I am now but skin and bone Freed from the angst of mem......

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Categories: mitre, dark, death, life,
Form: Sonnet



God Meant Need His Consent
...what God may have meant will always need my consent give up things for Lent (Mitre Box) we would search and search for place where new priest can perch God gave us a church when born mus......

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Categories: mitre, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Old Soul
...In that we are all a vassal to age no sceptre or mitre can set us free, and no fealty can old time assuage or rail against its synchronicity. For ever decreasing circles besot the cog......

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Categories: mitre, age, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Murphy's Law of Government
...soundbyte politics mitre box propaganda angles distorted Peter Principal vitae all cutters from rotten cloth......

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Categories: mitre, america, anger, betrayal, cancer,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Somewhere
...The mitre of us We live, due by our own rules Skeptical beliefs Tender tawdry tantrums Misty colored trifles......

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Categories: mitre, age, allusion, dedication, wisdom,
Form: Tanka
The Snake Charmer
... He dresses in robes, carefully coiffed He enters the nave, mitre is doffed He preaches a tale, to eager sheep He fleeces their wool, his tithe to keep He blesses the flock, they’......

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Categories: mitre, allegory, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is Like a Chess Match
..."Life is like a chess match To win you must be swift and able to maneuver Yes, life and the chess match are very much the same Once the king dies, no others continue the game" ......

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Categories: mitre, evil, god, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
I Know You Wont Believe Me, But
...Good morning my dear, are you still awake? Yes, I know it's quite late but let me make it quite clear its not entirely my fault, I was caught in the rain by the Old Town Vault and the windscre......

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Categories: mitre, drink, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring In the Air
...Spring Is In The Air Seasons changed as revolutions circled in the wider scheme of matter with great things to come and wonders gone past Summer in unforgettable rays of foam covered ocean spe......

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Categories: mitre, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Physician
...At the end of a dry, harsh August, as Autumn slowly descends upon Whitechapel, I begin my vicious practice. From Buck’s Row to Hanbury Street, I make each house call brief. My methods most prec......

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Categories: mitre, abuse, crazy, gothic, murder,
Form: Lyric
Earth-Woman
...I am woman and I have borne the Torah on a gold cloth over my shoulder. I have consecrated its dust-leadened parchment, cradling the scrolls into temple darkness... clicked-shut the doors, saddened......

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Categories: mitre, christian,
Form: Free verse

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