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Ottoman Poems - Poems about Ottoman

Bitterness now worshipped as religion

...In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers –
lifestreams of Rossiyane and T...
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Categories: ottoman, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Lord was able to deliver me from a plot by demons Q and A and commentary

...Q  Because of my relentless and persistent 'wool gathering' were Satan's
     demons actively plotting 'to put me out commission due to my willful
     acts of disobedience?

A  Yes

Q  Did God...
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Categories: ottoman, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Premium MemberDream-like Quality

...What is to be known of the honey comb?
A frightening look at overcrowding at home.

She comes to this tribal gathering in robes,
wearing slippers, newsprint on her thumb.

Affection awaits the ...
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Categories: ottoman, dream, poetess,
Form: Ghazal

let's talk 'bout mine engram

....

                     well
                    i'll talk
                 y'all listen

                    'twuz
                    1992
              she kissed me
              she rea...
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Categories: ottoman, beautiful, blessing, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Starts With O and Ends With N

...The other day I read a Facebook post,
where they asked this silly question again.
Find a word that starts with the letter O,
but that word must end with the letter N.

Of course, I know it’s jus...
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Categories: ottoman, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44

...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44

Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings, 
so please do not hashtag me 
as worse than an ingrate 
or o...
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Categories: ottoman, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOttoman

...Dusty musty air hit me as I open the attic door. Turning on small torch, I pause whilst my eyes gently get acclimatised to the dim light. Brushing away the long cobwebs which hang from th...
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Categories: ottoman, clothes, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Haibun

No Regrets

.... for public domain

Sighing, she withdrew from her life's labors;
her age beckoned a restful luxury
from her now-passing spouses, grown children,
busy neighbors, and weary market treks.

Much...
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Categories: ottoman, age, joy, old, peace,
Form: Free verse

Gallipoli,

...A Poem Of WW1 
ANZAC Day 
25th April 2018

Let’s have at Johnny Turk
Winston Churchill said, 
We’ll secure the Dardanelles,
Keep our Russian trade fed.
His words so casually uttered 
May hav...
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Categories: ottoman, memorial day, military, remembrance
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHappy and Complete

...John had a favorite reading chair 
near the corner of the room
angled towards the fireplace 
with a tall lamp light 
set at just the right height
padded with his wife's 
embroidered cushions by...
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Categories: ottoman, bible, christian, dream, family,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBattle of Beersheba

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                         I
“Charge!” they said and charge they led
      from out of a dry desert wadi.
 Every man of the Light Horse Brigade
   across the desert thundered -
 their pulsin...
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Categories: ottoman, courage, history, war,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberGallipoli

...In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
  an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
  lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
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Categories: ottoman, war,
Form: Sonnet

Khata Sin, Christianity End Times

...The pleasure seeking body blindes me. All I leave is death and slavery behind me. In pride my unbelieving faith is founded, my previously living vessel is now grounded. The trumpets sounded and I was...
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Categories: ottoman, angel, betrayal, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme

The Shilluk Kingdom and My Heart

...''The Shilluk Kingdom and My heart''

Genre: Poetry
poet: Gum Mapuol Mabior

''The Shilluk Kingdom and My heart''

I was going to be a Prince
Of Shilluk kingdom today if we 
Did not lose our...
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Categories: ottoman, adventure, africa, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Take Leave of Our Senses Under Tents

...We get buried under tents
in cemeteries, a sensible 

insurance send off,
throwing roses into a hole. 

At parking lot carnivals in June, 
I throw rings at 

impossible duck necks, 
tommy-g...
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Categories: ottoman, death, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse

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