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Turrets Poems - Poems about Turrets

Premium MemberMuseum of my Mind

...I would make a museum of my mind
Fill these musty halls with all my people
Every girl who has walked my corridors 
To write her piece and paste it on the walls. 

Every plaque together, a mosaic...
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Categories: turrets, me, self,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberpainted ladies

...
painted ladies

over the years i have forgotten her eyes
that her smile was soft
and her hair like chiffon on a wednesday morning

we walked along stanyan street
celebrating the color...
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Categories: turrets, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberC S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress

...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.'  all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories: turrets, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme

Architecture of anthropological anteaters

...The day the hour,
The meat the shower,
Show no oscillating octopus to an octagonal obelisk and eat a Greek tortilla upside down in a second. It is wiser to tread lightly in a miller’s abode. Round ...
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Categories: turrets, aubade, beautiful, bird, blessing,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberThe Sandcastle

...We ask if there be merit in the sand
Conformed from heart and hand on summer’s day?
However well the moat and turrets planned,
The lapping of the sea’s not far away.
O, that the tide shall come, ...
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Categories: turrets, analogy, angst, beach, emotions,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberOn Kissing the Blarney Stone

..."There is a stone there, that whoever kisses, OH! He never misses, to grow eloquent" Author not mentioned at link to Blarney Stone - Blarney Castle

I walk the path amid the trees 
Where footsteps...
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Categories: turrets, ireland,
Form: Rhyme

The Gallery, Gala, Larry, Part 2

...Students their little burning harmonies | you compos’d it 
One single gallery | public arras blasé debate re-placed
Sheets just- | cool on clothesline whiskered with wear.
Variousness was it| trus...
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Categories: turrets, art, humanity, metaphor, natural
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTransylvanian Gothic

...In the shadowed mountains of Romania, horse-drawn carts travel down dirt roads. On foot, some walk through rolling hills blanketed by fog in a world that's become known for myths and legends. Darknes...
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Categories: turrets, gothic,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberDream of Yesterday's Wishes

...My life was a river, and I was a willow twig, 
Bobbing on a creek toward the sea.
Strong, fast, lively children tried to catch me and failed.
The greatest sports hero, I dreamed I'd be.  
A boy a...
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Categories: turrets, dream, life, river, sea,
Form: Rhyme

The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels

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Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry,
With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples,

When now a country honors not classical bards:
O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarc...
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Categories: turrets, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Ode

Jousting Part Ii

...Flags
Miniature standards
Plunged by
A child’s hand
into turrets
Of a castle 
of golden sand
Long washed clean
By rolling tides.
Sometimes
A bugle plays
On 
Omaha Beach
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Categories: turrets, conflict, in memoriam, pride,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTwinkle, Twinkle Legos Star

...Legos Nursery Rhyme

(Verse 1)
In a land of bricks so bright,
Lego wonders, pure delight.
Tiny blocks of every hue,
Building dreams, both old and new.

(Verse 2)
Yellow heads with smiles so ...
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Categories: turrets, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING

...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...
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Categories: turrets, abuse, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

A Religious Affair

...Turrets are turning,
behind the tanks
exhausts are farting death clouds,
barrels, like angry dicks,
are hot, erect and spurting,
buildings erupt, climaxing
on TV screens.

On both sides of th...
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Categories: turrets, poetry,
Form: Free verse

An Uttering Fire

...they go
into the uttering fire
enter
- no more talking

the rubble is piled high
higher than the high houses

men in turrets
crush
they lick their dry lips

they listen
to the flames

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Categories: turrets, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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