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Verdun Poems - Poems about Verdun

Premium Member To Those Who Wrote the Prose
...There’s a universe in my library Where I often rest within, Beginning with cosmology Where the mystery of life begins... In space and time in books you’ll find On a shelf upon a wall, Near......

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Categories: verdun, culture, education, evil, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cain's Exile of Inherent Beingness
...Mark The earth turns its face from you as if ashamed. You who tilled the soil, now marked by what the soil received. Your brother's blood— how it murmurs, how it screams. Deafness wou......

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Categories: verdun, fate, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Narrative



No Supper
...No Supper Round as a planet, dark as the galaxy the interior looked like the last battle in Verdun the early spring of 1914. It had been a healthy preparation of carrots, beans turnips, potato......

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Categories: verdun, best friend, fun,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Morning On the Siene Near Giverny
...Your smile shines~ as the new morn breaks upon wisteria water reflecting sunlight kisses on sleepy teal trees. Your laughters echo~ upon the verdun leaves that radiate a lilac shade as......

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Categories: verdun, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Unknown Warrior Comes Home
...The Unknown Warrior Comes Home by Robert J (Bob) Moore © Nov.2018 From the battlefields on the Western front four warriors, are going home plain coffins covered by the flag these warriors were......

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Categories: verdun, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If the Day Dawns, At Last - Yuliya
...If the day dawns at last that your heart bows to service, acknowledges, longs to ‘pay forward’ past debts, I’ll praise God. If you live Life of Grace (shown to people around you), to mentors, your......

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Categories: verdun, appreciation, blessing, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Irises
...orchidlike delicate petals ~ oozing in shades of teal and admiral are like dancing ballerinas hailing for the first kiss of rain whilst flaxen and golden grasses are softly cascading honey fl......

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Categories: verdun, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Summer In the Sun
...SUMMER IN THE SUN There was a young man from Verdun Who lazed in the hot summer sun. He reclined, all revealing, Till his skin started peeling, Then he said, “I reckon I’m don......

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Categories: verdun, summer, sun,
Form: Limerick
The Living Dead
...My mind wanders to the stillness of a field where wild asters used to stud the grass with blue I seem to hear the echo of a voice Lamenting over the vast stretches where my thoughts cling H......

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Categories: verdun, adventure, beach, beauty, best
Form: Free verse
Armistice
...Eleventh hour— young men perished, their hopes and dreams all lost: Ypres, The Marne, Verdun of the Eleventh day— silent, fell guns, and stillness took the front: Argonne, Belleau Woo......

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Categories: verdun, war, world war i,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, the Ubiquity of Perception: a Collaboration With Jonathon Durno
... Man makes this reality It's up to you test Clarity comes well born to dawn...

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Categories: verdun, adventure, community,
Form: Lanterne
The Ubiquity of Perception
...Clarity comes well born to dawn With an undying, insatiable rage, Gone are the times when love was ours That permitted a wit to gauge Free men once said that time based lies Do marketh and str......

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Categories: verdun, history, leadership, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Moonscape
...Moonscape In the cemetery there are twelve thousand dead. They fought and died for Paschendale. Such slaughter took place. One hundred and forty thousand Allies are missing. Fighting and dying i......

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Categories: verdun, anger, death, history, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Three Cousins Played
...Three cousins played a “game’ of war A map of Europe spread across the floor No adults there to keep the score As each of them wanted more and more Three of four empires lay upon that map As t......

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Categories: verdun, war,
Form: Verse
The Tommie's Lot
...While general’s drink their claret wine, In taverns far behind the lines The English tommy spills another wine On Flanders table, made from mothers pride In front of guns in faltered stride The swee......

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Categories: verdun, war,
Form: Free verse

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