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Torchbearers Poems - Poems about Torchbearers


Premium MemberThe Incarnation

...How elegant was the world you had made, God, my Father
The sun, the moon, and the stars, as fully alive, functioned.
Herbs, shrubs, plants, trees, flies, birds, beasts, and humans had their honor
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Categories: torchbearers, jesus,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberTomb

...Serene silence, its salient feature
The sapped bodies snug in solitude.
Not a mound of sand and cement.
A structure to showcase our reverence and regard and
Keep them alive through our thoughts, ...
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Categories: torchbearers, grave, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging

teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...
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Categories: torchbearers, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

The Torchbearers

...And then somewhere,
As days passed to years,
It was lost.
We had become the elder guard,
The keepers of tales old
And wisdom new.
No longer the hunters of Snipe,
Our youth, long since left beh...
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Categories: torchbearers, family, old,
Form: Free verse

The Un Rides On Human Skeletons

...The UN Rides on Human Skeletons
                              
                   By

Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

The UN’s representatives
Suited in beautiful attire
Torchbearers of justice
War...
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Categories: torchbearers, beauty, corruption, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse



Torchbearers

...The Moon and stars are celestial sharers
Illuminating the skies as faithful torchbearers
Luna trades places with the sun, who sleeps
until the morrow when o'er earth it sweeps

How p...
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Categories: torchbearers, light, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Trip To the Lake

...Hounds prowl beneath a cold-blooded moon.
Torchbearers cross the levee in unions of two,
Each boasting of the mischief he’ll do.
Ghosts follow hard in Lucifer’s tracks.
Hell’s dignitaries, slippi...
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Categories: torchbearers, allegory, halloween,
Form: Lyric

America: Land of Glory

...My burdened country, tis of thee
Still beautiful are its halcyon skies
America! Free of woes we long to be.
God, shed Your grace upon blind eyes.
Unite us with love and brotherhood
Enlighten our...
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Categories: torchbearers, usa,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHidden Swastikas

...I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme 
Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems 
Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions, different schisms 
Joining the dots to...
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Categories: torchbearers, allusion, corruption, how i
Form: Rhyme

Taking Todays Tumblerful Tea Time

...This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging

teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless tit...
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Categories: torchbearers, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe One Mightier

...Who do you deem to be stronger?
Be it God or the Devil?
Simple!
Should you wish to know the answer
Why, just see to what extent do you wish the world to be ill

Yes, God did make us, the torchb...
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Categories: torchbearers, evil, god, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Waiting For Spring

...Bring me back , not to the past, 
but present oracles  done and sung
come now, gardenias
parade among giant trees 
while torchbearers gather to kneel
upon the ground that stamps
this mad maiden...
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Categories: torchbearers, longing, seasons,
Form: Light Verse

Medieval Ages Work Still In Progress

...I'll write to you of medieval ages,
Foreign lands,knights and of many sages.
Medieval verse,and versification
With ancient meter I shall imitate,
To flesh out this age's animation.
And stories fictio...
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Categories: torchbearers, africa, allegory, city, faith,
Form: Epic

Inadequacy

...A silence speaks up at ungreen 
age for an unknown, finding 
                            dark matter in hiddenness
of sleazy light.

A dove in the valley of tulips
stops a flight for a wayfarer.

Wha...
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Categories: torchbearers, art,
Form: ABC

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