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Skalds Poems - Poems about Skalds


Transplant
...These are poems about shadows and shadowy things... Transplant by Michael R. Burch You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh as strange to us who briefly knew your flame as laughter to disea......

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Categories: skalds, angel, dark, daughter, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Lays Between
...white capped peaks appear then go cresting mountains blue and green with prayers that triton’s spear won’t show we cross what lays between old skalds tell of the tempest’s wrath this realm ......

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Categories: skalds, allegory, beauty, faith, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. —Michael R. Burch To write an epigram, cram. If you lack wit, scram! —Michael R. Bu......

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Categories: skalds, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
We Were Skalds
...We were poets and hymns were so vital and proud Our beautiful dreams As I see haven’t found. We have lost our Cult Our poems have died Let me say you are Skald We won’t stop our fight. Our ......

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Categories: skalds, allegory, emotions, feelings, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
A God Thing
...Fairhair’s youngest son the good, for peace trickery repaid, by hawk upon the knee Norse blood raised an English king, hid from the bloody axe until his reign A C......

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Categories: skalds, christian, conflict, culture, england,
Form: Free verse




Book: Reflection on the Important Things