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Saxons Poems - Poems about Saxons

rhododendrons
...Ah, the rhododendrons, dear and bright, Look at them for a moment, three seconds, Seek them in the streets, in silence, Explore the small multicolored gardens, They are pink, purple, white, shiny......

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Categories: saxons, 10th grade, beautiful, flower,
Form: Free verse
Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
...KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS King Alfred the Great (c. 849-899), arguably the first great king of England, may have done more to lay the groundwork for English literacy and l......

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Categories: saxons, england, leadership, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Father's Dream
...My Father's Dream A wide and vast horizon beckons me to enter there where oceans echo ancestral voices and gulls paint images in the air. The Saxons and Angles, Hansas and Norse of Ha......

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Categories: saxons, age, america, beauty, dad,
Form: Free verse
Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard
...Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard... since being a student in grade, junior and high school analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves quite aware that finger musc......

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Categories: saxons, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
...Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II ancient Anglo-Saxon poem loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Hrothulf and Hrothgar, uncle and nephew, for a long time kept a careful peace tog......

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Categories: saxons, music, peace, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



The Hall of Cynddylan translation by Michael R Burch
...“Stafell Gynddylan” (“The Hall of Cynddylan”) belongs to the cycle of Welsh englyn or englynion (three-line stanzas) traditionally called “Canu Heledd” (“The Song of Heledd”). The Welsh “dd” is p......

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Categories: saxons, dark, death, death of
Form: Englyn
E-N-G-L-I-S-H
...A Germanic Language Second most spoken in the world Angles Saxons Jutes From Angles were Engles Whose language was Englisc Thus from Europe ENGLISH was born! Traveling through inscriptions ......

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Categories: saxons, history, language,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member U K is O K, try it for your holidays
...Welcome to the British isles, where cash is flowing Where much resides, history on every side of killer Kings and queens provide, a tapestry of style and wiles Villan's and villein and many wrecke......

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Categories: saxons, 11th grade, appreciation, december,
Form: Free verse
Being German
...Descendent we are forefather’d as we are (not all obviously), from the Germanic tribes. Around the year zero we emerged out of those dark primordial winter forests, fully formed and tribal. ......

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Categories: saxons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The White Privilege
...A cherished childhood spent cocooned in my inward-looking community, Protected me from the indoctrination of a white-privileged history. But when I stepped into a world where brown was under-repres......

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Categories: saxons, prejudice, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Arthurian Poems Iii
...Uther’s Last Battle by Michael R. Burch When Uther, the High King, unable to walk, borne upon a litter went to fight Colgrim, the Saxon King, his legs were weak, and his visage bitter. “Where......

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Categories: saxons, england, literature, magic, myth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Saex
...Hmmm... let's start with the Saxons, and not forget when they got their groove on. If it wasn't for the seax, and the -ons, we wouldn't be friends but talking like the Ottomans, mon. by Mart......

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Categories: saxons, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Solmonath
...Now this month was called Solmonath the anglo Saxons gave it this name to mean the month of cakes no less offered them to their gods being their aim This is no favourite time of year at least ......

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Categories: saxons, february, imagery, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alfred the Great
...Alfred the Great Said, " Peace without axe I will bring with baptism and ring And beyond all ken Dunk enemy king and wed Saxons with great Danes to create Englishmen."......

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Categories: saxons, history, humor, marriage, peace,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
...across the Doggerland dogged people trudge Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enfor......

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Categories: saxons, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative

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