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The Epic of the Great King

...There sits behind deep forests hidden,
A sight to behold, place of all sins ridden,
Where the great rivers give life and churn,
A thousand diamonds and the trees sing
Along with the wind, ruled b...
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Categories: thralled, life, loss, love,
Form: Metrical Tale

Seas of Time and Fate

...Ife my love I dream that time
Should haunt or hesitate to be
A whisper exquisite till it requites
With love every rose upon the sea
Then memories wake each crimson blossom
Sometimes aspiring til...
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Categories: thralled, love,
Form: Free verse



A Poet of a Thousand Words

...A poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow ma...
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Categories: thralled, love,
Form: Free verse

Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language

...Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interp...
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Categories: thralled, england, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Medieval Poems Ii

...Medieval Poems



Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he appr...
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Categories: thralled, angel, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberQuaint Coastal Setting

...We parked on an old quay
Amidst a quaint coastal setting
Surrounded by platinum clouds
Minds soon interpreting 

In poise our thoughts now action
Thralled by the essence of her perfume 
No lon...
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Categories: thralled, birthday, car, color, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberKu Kops Klan

...With fascist fist, white CHAUVINist (whose christian name is Drek)
hailed pearly Knights in Kevlar tights who spurn the ebon fleck,
and joined the Kops enforcing stops which keep black pawns in che...
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Categories: thralled, society,
Form: Rhyme

Insidious View To a Spider

...menacing black silhouette occupant of doom
silently working a slow venom bloom
deliberate struts on a stretch of silk string
pin point needles work threads to cling
long elegant strands tethered ...
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Categories: thralled, dark, mystery, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLusting Abyss, His Darkness

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Lusting Abyss, his Darkness.
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Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands desiring what he sees

In front of him stands a virgin pure as the driven snow
For white he know...
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Categories: thralled, love, peace, people, places,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLush Lashes Lure

...Lured
by her
lush lashes,
forever thralled.
Snared!

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(C) John C Michaels, April 2017

Inspired by the "Form L - Lanterne" contest sponsored by Broken Wings.
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Categories: thralled, beauty, first love, girlfriend,
Form: Lanterne

Chant Royal

...Life flashes by in a moment of time.
Late twilight’s rose fades, the sweet songbirds leave.
Though we strive to remain in reasoned rhyme
All living will die, the joyful will grieve.
What vision c...
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Categories: thralled, allusion, death, inspiration, life,
Form: Chant Royal

Premium MemberScented Blooming Petals

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thralled, now I'm allured
with gentleness I approach
blooming dew glistens
scented petals aspire me
velvet to the touch, I'm graced...
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Categories: thralled, beautiful, flower, love, places,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberNow and Then and Now Again

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Though still within our infancy, 
we strive to thrive, but woefully 
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
 
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony...
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Categories: thralled, corruption, culture, environment, money,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberWhen She Walks

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my attention caught
naked, bare without a care 
when she walks I'm thralled 
witnessing gravity speak
she winks, I glimpse, we are one




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Categories: thralled, beauty, cute love, desire,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberLusting Abyss, His Darkness

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Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees

In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will...
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Categories: thralled, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

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