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
Quaint 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
Ku 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
Lusting 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
Lush 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
Scented 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
Now and Then and Now Again
...1
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
When 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
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 knows it is, upon she his darkness will...
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Categories:
thralled, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
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