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Westwards Poems - Poems about Westwards


Premium MemberThis Old Road is Wearing Me Down

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This old road is wearing me down
7 more miles and I will be out of town

Ain’t got no wagon, and holes in my boots
Darn me; if the weather never suits 

Yeah

This old road is wearing me do...
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Categories: westwards, summer, work,
Form: Rhyme

Refugees

...Eastwards  Westwards
we know the direction
Playing tricks with the mind
We thought we knew the best
Down Convents Hill
the stone Angels sing
Desertion is not even an option
open the flanks
pl...
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Categories: westwards, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Calcivore, Part Iv

...IV.
Fronds whipped their faces, they dashed through the trees,
more shrill, raspy growls rose behind them,
creatures crashed through forest, giving them chase,
they weren’t that fast, but came re...
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Categories: westwards, adventure, animal, dark, death,
Form: Narrative

Calcivore, Part I

...I.
Zack stared out on the Indian Ocean
through which the adventure cruise made its way,
they were near the famed Andaman Islands,
and would probably reach them the next day.

He’d paid extra ca...
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Categories: westwards, adventure, animal, dark, death,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWhen Savages Sang Strongly 4

...Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know 
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh...
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Categories: westwards, heart,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Daniel Morgan's Masterpiece, Part I

...Back in seventeen eighty-one
The revolution hit hard times,
Britain had taken Charlestown
And at Camden had crushed the lines

Of General Horatio Gates,
Leaving nobody to resist,
Except the Sw...
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Categories: westwards, america, conflict, hero, history,
Form: Epic

If I Were An Elephant

...If i were an elephant,
   I hope i would be free.
   To roam the Sub-Sahara,
   And westwards to Mali.
   But freedoms fraught with danger,
   By mans ability.
   To hunt big game for pleasure,...
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Categories: westwards, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Surfing Your Way

...An evening breeze lonely thoughts flowed,
From my deepest core branching westwards
Water skipping across moonlit ocean aglow
An evening breeze. Lonely thoughts! - flowed
Ripples of silver hue...
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Categories: westwards, i miss you, lonely,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberThe Druid

...Far away deep in the forest there lived a druid
It was a long journey of three to four days of
hard going with no real path to speak of.
Just little trails wandering through the trees
and up hill...
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Categories: westwards, magic, nature, visionary,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberThe Manchester Ship Canal - Part Two

...Stilled again across the canals broadening 
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions 
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the h...
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Categories: westwards, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Page 2 the Lotus Eaters 2nd Page

...The Lotus Eaters - page 2 of 2

   Fed them the one food they adored.  In fact the only food they had in store.  Lotus blossoms, lotus leaves and lotus wine from lotus trees.  Lotus plants grew every...
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Categories: westwards, adventure,
Form: Epic

Page 2 the Lotus Eaters Part 2 of 2

...The Lotus Eaters part 2 of 2
Fed them the one food they adored.  In fact the only food they had in store.
Lotus blossoms, lotus leaves and lotus wine from lotus trees.
Lotus plants grew everywhere an...
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Categories: westwards, journey,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberMorning High Light

...looking westwards,to clear blue sky,
yesterday's moon,whispers goodbye...
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Categories: westwards, nature, places,
Form: Crystalline

Sails At Sunset

...Billowing white
A tall masted ship
Gleaming wet
Sped on
In to a setting sun
 
Mizzen and top gallants flying
Such golden light
Fell upon a ship
That sped on 
In to the setting sun
 
Billo...
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Categories: westwards, mystery, sea, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Ballad

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