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Ramparts Poems - Poems about Ramparts

Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry
...Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hus......

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Categories: ramparts, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
This Sceptred Isle
... In 1773 the sun never set on the British Empire so goes the story now the 'Teatime Islands' crumbs of Great Britain’s former glory but as the moon rose over the White Cliffs of Dover s......

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Categories: ramparts, animal, england, humorous, raven,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member chateau
... legions … of shadowed purpose they rattle the parapets of my flesh morning paints the stark reality that lays like shards of tea-stained saucers before me … an iniquitous army of intent po......

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Categories: ramparts, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Bones
...A few articulate with humor and grief, others are hinged so that ears can hear each other. Many bones are scaffolds for vision, prayer and procreation. One hollow bone hums in the throat, i......

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Categories: ramparts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tethys, Time
...Ramparts of the castle? Slicked well with rain or blood? Ask the master's vassal. His veins have caused a flood... Well. Is that so? Don't you know? Steady as we go. Carrion, feed well each c......

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Categories: ramparts, confidence, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member if but stone
... * In memory of the great Charles Laughton, who brought charm and tenderness to a monster with his rare form of melancholy genius * ~ on the ledge … of majestic Notre Dame he wat......

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Categories: ramparts, analogy, heartbreak, history, true
Form: Free verse
Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
...Song of the Highest Tower by Arthur Rimbaud translation by Michael R. Burch Let it come, let it come, The day when all hearts love as one. I’ve endured so long That I’d even forgotten The ......

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Categories: ramparts, brother, child, childhood, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rumors of War
...("Creation Myth - Anthropomorphic Nebula Merit Badge” #65, 2016, original oil) Rumors of War War, war, rumors of war, Whispered on the winds Screamed from the rooftops. Who does it ......

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Categories: ramparts, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member but a shell
... ghosts … peek every corner these walls were the vessel of a family - the body of a progenic spirit that inhabited these bones of wood and plaster and glass … and hope for nearly four tens o......

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Categories: ramparts, analogy, home, house,
Form: Free verse
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty. Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen......

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Categories: ramparts, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member big ticket
... * an updated version of a piece I wrote for my favorite baller, Kevin Garnett * ~ intensity ... defined excuses were for gods and gamblers (lesser giants with fairer feuds) HE ... w......

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Categories: ramparts, analogy, basketball,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After a harvest of queensland cane
...I was awed by the noise..As breath indrawn.? Of mighty Giants in unseen form..' immediatly after grew the Vivid lemon walls..towering ramparts a firestorm! fissures Of red, glints of blue..With a ......

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Categories: ramparts, appreciation, education,
Form: Rhyme
Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
...Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE), the daughter of the famous King Sargon the Great of Akkad, is the first ancient writer whose name remains known today. Temple Hymn 15 to the Gishbanda Temple of ......

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Categories: ramparts, faith, father daughter, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forming the centre
...Will you form with me at the centre.? Any colonials Good and true..'Will you stand? To confront tyranny? Here there is a place for you.! all you will need is courage.. And the will to see it throu......

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Categories: ramparts, education, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
An ode to the lake
...Behold, the lonesome lake amidst the evergreen woods. 'Tis drifting in the quietness of wondrous solitude, Upon the visage of languid silvery hue, The earthly splendor of greatest joy imbue, ......

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Categories: ramparts, 10th grade, allegory, april,
Form: Ode

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