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Parlous Poems - Poems about Parlous

Premium Member Amazon Rider
...Twelve royal labors, you faced each challenge hard and mean. Claimed delicate favors; made good on stripping a warrior queen. Amazon rider, you jump her bareback as you please. You get soul deep i......

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Categories: parlous, allegory, bullying, mythology,
Form: Lyric
Hidden Gifts
...HIDDEN GIFTS So long we live within confines self made In patterns of our lives that seem unchanged For safety of familiar curbs we trade Our power where ‘cross parlous world we’d ranged Why......

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Categories: parlous, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Plight
...I cry out boldly in the night In the darkness there so bright Standing stripped of moral might Looking back with perfect sight Slender rays of stars swift flight Pierce my weeping ......

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Categories: parlous, emotions, fear, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Beaumains In the Wilderness - With Apologies To Sir Thomas Mallory
...Make your way through the parlous fog and place your trust in God, As heather, moss and bracken fern embrace the peaty sod. Take the fork at the Roman road that seems the wilder choice, Then wand......

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Categories: parlous, desire, literature, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Hope Viii
...Hope a firm raft is Sailing over the rough seas Among parlous riffs, Determined to reach the shores Of dreams' realization!* © Demetrios Trifiatis 29 May 2021 ......

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Categories: parlous, dream, hope, sea,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Doomed
...Parlous decisions Have been made Regarding our plants Wrong hands played China now top nation In terms of output By manufacturing jobs Leads USA hard put Where do our parts Come fro......

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Categories: parlous, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
Contain Contagion
...C-ontain contagion of poison, R-epel rabidity of virus; I-solate the positive person, S-top the threat so serious. T-ry to contain contagion I-n each and every country; N-eatly bring it to ......

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Categories: parlous, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Parlous Hazard
...J-ust E-rase N-otorious N-astiness' Y-ucky J-eopardy O-bliterating S-ilent E-pidemic's P-arlous H-azard Topic: Birthday of poetess Jenny Joseph (May 07) Form: Vertical Monocrostic......

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Categories: parlous, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
The Essence of Nightmares
...A fierce inferno The entice of gunshots Engulfed by your worst nightmare Wake up! Wake up! Submersion of you consciousness In which we have no valid control. Hallucinations flash and tear dow......

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Categories: parlous, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Darkness
...The darkest word in English is the darkness. The real darkness differs from a starkness, a rut of death with pennies on her lids. The darkness, I repeat, has no bearing on covered mirrors, fare......

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Categories: parlous, dark, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Tom Mboya Ndiege
...Tom Mboya, son of Ndiege From the craggy islands of Rusinga --the craddle of his progenitors He sprouts like avens in the loamy knoll And out to the urbs he sets off his journey A parlous journe......

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Categories: parlous, death, dedication, freedom,
Form: Elegy
If Not
...IF NOT If you can’t keep your head when all around you Are keeping their’s and blaming it on you. If you cannot trust yourself when all men look to you And condemn them for relying on you to......

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Categories: parlous, character, son,
Form: Rhyme
Big Buckle Said Knuckle
...Place where they have a lot of nerve; Should surely see the way they curve; My big buckle, Said knuckle; They do it with much vive and verve. Jim Nada Cantata Horn We should wrote a poem ......

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Categories: parlous, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sentinel
...In panic’s metered dirge, A sentinel of hope; Amid a parlous surge, One swirling lumened rope. Vexed vessels churn and gaze, In rabid waves of froth, ......

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Categories: parlous, ocean, storm,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Sirens Song
...Legends speak of banshees of the blue briny deep, whom cast bewitching Spells mesmerizing voice and song, beware youthful mariner for charms echoing Beauty, may cause deceptions fall from grace, na......

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Categories: parlous, adventure, fantasy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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