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Stele Poems - Poems about Stele


the robin and the cemetery
...The robin redbreast is hardly afraid, He is not afraid of cemeteries, Seeing me, he lands on the grave of the Bouvier family, Looks at me, then flies on that of Cécile Kerneis, Since he is Breton......

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Categories: stele, bird, death,
Form: Free verse
'On a Betrothed Girl' by Erinna translation
...These are modern English translations of epigrams and poems by the ancient Greek poet Erinna... On a Betrothed Girl by Erinna loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I sing of Ba......

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Categories: stele, art, death, girl, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse



Stele with names carved
...Names carved on a stone A stele made for the dead Denoting the hunters or fighters Chasing to kill innocent animals Or fighting the lives of people For dying brutal or dying cruel I rea......

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Categories: stele, blessing, christian, feelings, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC. Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1 (HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs) He'll heal his heel. They sow so they sew......

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Categories: stele, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Alone In Scary Silence
...The moon veiled in a web darkness; bejeweled in radiance starkness, to delve into the dark only the prince of darkness. I was alone in the silence weaves, while childish, I walk thr......

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Categories: stele, allusion, child, scary,
Form: Rhyme



And the Mothers Weep
...AND THE MOTHERS WEEP by JOHN M. ARRIBAS A young lanky sod buster with no place to go Thought things would be better in San Antonio Jo......

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Categories: stele, anger, angst, death, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
The Come and Go Pattern Forms the Present and Past
...Everything in this world is ever on change fast; The come and go pattern forms the present and past. Historic sites are preserved everywhere on landscape; And now we can climb and visit them in in......

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Categories: stele, change, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Love of Tiamat
...behold now everything on this earth; the fields with abundance of grain, palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful, the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that scorch them; ......

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Categories: stele, mythology,
Form: I do not know?
On My Death
...To the gravedigger, dear sir let the ivy grow and the rain fall in the stele As a flower fall from Eden, I hear the angels sing While I slightly twist and turn in the God’s acre, so deep. Erstwhi......

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Categories: stele, absence, death, fate, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
Circumspice 5
...Part 5 -- Si Monumentum Requiris … Some tattered banners (from the Crimean War? so who on earth was fighting – and what for?) That Holman Hunt thing, over on the right, with Jesus and His lan......

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Categories: stele, history, , memorial,
Form: Couplet
The Sullivans
...THE SULLIVANS, 1942 by JOHN M. ARRIBAS It was a cold blustery day in Waterloo An Iowan winter with not much to do A silent military mission was underway Three warriors here with a chi......

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Categories: stele, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Did I Say What I Said You Said
...Did I say What I said You said You said looking a little forlorn a little redundant the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the da......

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Categories: stele, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Ad Amore, Ii
...Beatrice Discerno in te come s'agona la libertate onde 'l superno seme da la fatal famiglia vi disclona. Ora viatico non sia teco la spe......

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Categories: stele, angel, beauty, blessing, innocence,
Form: Terza Rima
Books Etched In Stone
...The community cemetery adjoined the rear fence-line of his property. Broad, rolling green acres landscaped with varieties of shrubbery and trees. Monuments in lines, rows, and diagonal patterns. ......

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Categories: stele, appreciation, memory, remember,
Form: Prose Poetry

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