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Shakespeare Poems - Poems about Shakespeare

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Premium Member Death of a Poet
...“When the pen falls silent that once danced to the muse’s command and when the poet’s heart no longer beats with rhyme, we realize that the poet in us is dead. It is a sad truth difficult to reckon.”......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, death, pain, poetess,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Sea Views
...Speak to me of midsummer, I dream of night as day. Reading shakespeare. By the sea. Or by a window. ......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, anxiety, conflict, dream, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We will-shake his stage'
...He was a one who liked the bums, who filled the blanks in Others puns.' He took the literary litrally..And lauded all the royals most librally' he was into his cottaging i beleive? He kept some tr......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, education, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member georgia
...It’s summer in Georgia, yeah, it’s warm. In high school, they said Shakespeare once called Georgia, "sulfurous and hot." He wasn’t wrong. The careless sky is letting in all of the heat. We s......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, fun, humor, summer, sun,
Form: Free verse
A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY
...A MINISTER RETIRES : SOLILOQUY I arise as infant Phoenix from Akasha ashes counterparts frozen with foibles intact a still Arctic of death sheath for recalibration Source Light bre......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, change, character, emotions, extended
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Poets Declare Life's Fragility
..."How fragile is life in nature's forceful wind..." Dylan Thomas wrote of October gales and their harsh, buffeting fingers. He called them an "autumnal spell." Autumn...the season when leaves han......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, environment, wind,
Form: Free verse
Mine
...Caught you staring at me and you felt shy Honey if only you knew I fantasize about you all the time Cause it's clearer than the blue sky You are the only joy I would never hide You look l......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, appreciation, fantasy, happiness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member IS THIS PINK HAIR CREAM WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME
... Six years ago, whilst touring England, we visited Anne Hathaway’s cottage, In Stratford upon Avon, I saw William Shakespeare’s ghost. Boldly I Approached him, Mr. Shakespeare Sir, may I use pa......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Minus Identity, Who am I
... Line of inquiry ‘Minus Identity Who am I’ ‘What a piece of work is a man!’ ……… ……… And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust’ (Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act II, sce......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, feelings, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
Shakespeare
...The bard of Avon live Long live his renowned name I gather his words yo become a dictionary His lexical usage are more secular and diagnostic I move forward with literature inspired By him an......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am Shakespeare
... Across the years, 400 plus, my stories endlessly play out their parts. I played not on painted stage, but I knew the human heart - I captured, with quill and scratch, the passions of laughter an......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, character, history, humor, literature,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels
... Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry, With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples, When now a country honors not classical bards: O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarc......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Shape Shifting Soul
...You might say that I'm just an atom, But the universe, I extoll. I view everything in creation As one big shape shifting soul. Even individual beings' bodies Are really something more. Microb......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, body, death, history, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fulfill A Vacancy: Heir A-Parent
...________________________________________________________________ Like the Sun, in its brightness and thoughts that equals it shine......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, character, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dauntless
...Title 4/ Dauntless Quote: "Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution." William Shakespeare My daring and intrepid knight so strong, this message is an urgent plea to you. For your sweet ki......Read the rest...
Categories: shakespeare, courage,
Form: Sonnet

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