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Verdun Poems - Poems about Verdun

Birthright

...Is  Harry Potter hero or the son of nepotism ?
Did you notice Parvati or a pinch of Racism? 

Where tempests do come and go
Were Grendel and Caliban really the foe? 

Where perfect is hour glas...
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Categories: verdun, anti bullying, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Birthright

...Is  Harry Potter hero or the son of nepotism ?
Did you notice Parvati or a pinch of Racism? 

Where tempests do come and go
Were Grendel and Caliban really the foe? 

Where perfect is hour glas...
...
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Categories: verdun, anti bullying, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTo 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 MemberCain'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 MemberEkphrasis 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 MemberThe 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 MemberIf 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 MemberEkphrasis 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 MemberOh, the Ubiquity of Perception: a Collaboration With Jonathon Durno

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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

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