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Whitsun Poems - Poems about Whitsun


Premium Member Along Scottish Shores
...Lightning strikes with thunderous clap A thickening fog rolls into the bay Ships stacked with dead on their back Set ablaze so they can sail away White waves crash rocks with sound Death ships......

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Categories: whitsun, bereavement, character, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skeleton In the Cupboard
...I’m kept hidden in the cupboard, always under lock and key; dare not come into the open how disgraceful it would be! I sit cramped, my bones are aching, a dark secret in the dark; I can’t eve......

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Categories: whitsun, silence,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Whitsun - Pentecost
...Imbued with wisdom of the Holy Ghost who drifted down with blessings upon them day fifty post-Resurrection Sunday, Apostles, inspired, spoke in many tongues for gifts of ......

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Categories: whitsun, celebration, christian, faith,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Celebration
...Here I am, a young girl in the cemetery, holding the hand of my mother in a parade, I wore a new white dress and my new shoes were pinching my toes. All around the cemetery we followed the priest......

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Categories: whitsun, celebration, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member New Year's Resolution
...New Year's Dream Double Etheree Dear New Year! ......

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Categories: whitsun, christmas,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member Montage of a Tree
...Tonight, a montage is brushed with a splendor of glazed branches : an arrangement of russet teal and orange; dappled wisps enticing my spirit for a pilgrim beyond my own angst. In pure deli......

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Categories: whitsun, beauty, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Steam Train To the Sea
...We are all gathered on the platform Jumping up and down with glee We can see the smoke of the puffing train Coming nearer to take us to the sea We are off on a Whitsun treat Forty children or ......

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Categories: whitsun, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Mayfly Is Up On the Kennet By M.A.Meddings
...The Mayfly is up on the Kennet, Well it’s Whitsun why wouldn’t it be? There’s a fine downstream breeze, And the fishing’s with ease, Do come as you used to for me. The Mayfly is up on the......

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Categories: whitsun, friendship, love, nostalgia, parody,
Form: Narrative

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