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Oaths Poems - Poems about Oaths

Premium Member ''Poetry Spoke Truth and Truth, Poetry''--Reprised, Final Revision
...I. Like arrows swiftly launched on bleeding wings, space and time flew to shape our foretold fates. Parnassus glorified supernatural beings, birthing grand songs too vast to narrate. From Pi......

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Categories: oaths, beauty, death, fate, fire,
Form: Bio
London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields, The shepherds rambling onwards, The herders with their slow-moving cat......

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Categories: oaths, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



The Frog That Became King
...He took an oath beneath the chandelier palace, tongue lapping at furtive moth wings. A crown of collectible bottle caps balanced on his warty brow. Lilith bowed as he passed, her petals mutter......

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Categories: oaths, muse, mystery, myth, nature,
Form: Spoken Word
DOG
...Duty incarnate, with muddy paws. Oaths sworn in slobber, not language. Guardian of joy, even when joy forgets itself.......

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Categories: oaths, dog,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Ode: Husband Compliments
...She is a self-driving car. As far as the farthest object, my eyes cannot believe she is Captain of a spaceship that she built from spent foil paper rolls. The aluminium was self-made. Books a......

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Categories: oaths, for her, identity, me,
Form: Ode



A Pathological Lier
... She weaves her truths with thread so thin, The needle slips and lies begin. A charming grin, a steady gaze— Yet words distort in subtle haze. She speaks of feats she’s never done, A war she ......

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Categories: oaths, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Disloyal Justices
... They once were held in high esteem the pride of each judicial dream The ones who have the final word when arguments have all been heard Their loyalty was guaranteed all virtuous, in tho......

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Categories: oaths, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Tome of Fate
...In halls of stone where echoes weep.. Beneath the earth, the secrets sleep. A tome of fate, with binding black.. Scrawled in blood.. no turning back. A thousand hands have turned its page.......

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Categories: oaths, dark, evil, fantasy, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A People's Flame: The Fire of 1789
... Charles Dickens said it best, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” a tale born in paroxysm and flame, where streets cried for liberty beneath the weight of tyranny, and histor......

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Categories: oaths, conflict, education, freedom, french,
Form: Free verse
When Wrong and Right Collide
... A clash of hues, a fractured light, Where shadows dance and truths take flight. A whispered doubt, a ringing plea, In moral storms, a restless sea. The compass spins its needle frail, As c......

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Categories: oaths, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Evaporating promises
...Diplomacy can be a fig leaf for surrender A wolf agrees to postpone the dismember If you want peace, prepare for war Peacetime is what aggressors use it for. Countries have interests, leaders h......

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Categories: oaths, evil, fear, freedom, rights,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member True Beauty, Indeed, To The Number-Theorists
...True beauty, indeed (to the number-theorists), reveals the distribution of the primes. Beauty, too, is courage, the defiant fists of a defender whom we praise in rhymes. Beauty a......

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Categories: oaths, beauty, betrayal, hero, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Hailed Down
...It is said that if I make this oath with God, Blessings would start to rain down But why when it storms, Like beams when it sounds They used love for elaborate personification Just to keep my mi......

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Categories: oaths, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As the Aster Blossoms Fade to Gray
...As the aster blossoms fade to gray A thousand-strong fleet trespass upon a bay Their leader sought to be the Lord of hosts To wage this war he spared no cost Then winter knell takes aut......

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Categories: oaths, allusion, culture, flower, history,
Form: Quatern
Actor's Guild of Ritual Arts
...Actor's Guild of ritual 'arts' Secret ritual Oaths exchanged for luxurious material lives Outward behaviour, manners; betraying what they really are and of course what they hide, Though if it ......

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Categories: oaths, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

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