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Ramparts Poems - Poems about Ramparts

Allocation, Ally
...Allocation, O ally? Resources put where? In the heads of those who fly? Worry, hast thou care? O ye spirits, I collect! End Times, be my Muse! Golden gods to genuflect? Dare to disabuse! ......

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Categories: ramparts, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Though an atheist
...Though an atheist.. please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation After umpteen times being swindled reducing me to abject poverty psyche of mine broke into a bajillion little pieces......

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Categories: ramparts, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse



The Signs of the Times
...I dwell between two major figures Where twenty borders twenty-one A child of age bygone, it figures What I lived through can’t be undone I keep on seeing a commotion A whirl, a trend that leav......

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Categories: ramparts, life,
Form: Rhyme
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

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