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Mystic monks with silk heads,
and orange robes to their feet, -
How do we know what are enemies are - and who are friends are.
When those lines have not been drawn. -
United at last, Rome looks to the east
To where the Imperial Eagle flies. -
The past disappears in misty haze,
Underneath a human gaze. -
Lets board the boat 'cause its time to go.
Set the sails and let the wind blow... -
The pleasantries of noble kings
Are deceptions to the fools -
or “Toga Treats and Sandal Satisfaction”
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"Looking over the port, yonder -
a deep dark ocean lay beneath
the cold, silver steel hull..."by Valerien Raven 36 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 31 5:39 PM. In War, Memorial, History, World War II, World War 2, World, Bismarck, Atlantic -
if you can hold on when there is nothing left in you
when god turns to you and says" you have the will to carry on" hold on!by Deaths Prayer 64 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 30 8:55 AM. In Creative, imagery, other, history, legend, thoughts, religion, human nature -
you think sir
i would betray godby Deaths Prayer 71 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 29 2:33 PM. In quote, deep, religion, philisophical, thoughts, contemporary, kings, history -
December Seventh, Nineteen Forty One,
the day of Infamy had just begun.by Griswold 17 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 28 4:36 PM. In Contest, Society, History, Sad, Contemporary, Message, Inspirational, Dedication -
Those ghosts will come after you
And chase you’re shadow -
Those visions faded into the mist
And became their own spirits -
Lucky you
Some of us never had a past -
My outside is a pristine white, a prim and proper house,
I wear is as the maiden wears her chaste, angelic blouse. -
John Milton, as a poet, was rather bold,
departing from the usual English form of sonnet,
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once we where alone
but look at us nowby Deaths Prayer 33 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 23 11:38 AM. In Patriot, freedom, contemporary, thoughts, life, love, other, war, history -
Their names are known
Being a Marine in the Corps -
All I can say to you all
Is that their story can only be toldby Deaths Prayer 15 lines, on Aug 22 2:45 PM. In Patriot, freedom, contemporary, thoughts, life, love, other, war, history -
This who we are
This is who we will becomeby Deaths Prayer 53 lines, on Aug 22 2:00 PM. In Patriot, freedom, contemporary, thoughts, life, love, other, war, history -
by apoeticinjustice 75 lines, 46 comments, on Aug 21 11:30 AM. In Cowboy Poetry, History, Native American
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You don’t know the pain soldiers consumed
You wouldn’t want to know the hell soldiers endured -
There were 139 British forces, and 4500 Zulu.the battle raged for more then twelve hour of hand to hand fighting, out of the 140 British tr
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Of ancient Cypriot sculptors, one above all else excelled.
The statues which Pygmalion carved, from ivory or stone, -
Caught up in sun and sweat and dust,
And never ending trail, -
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Great Tambora, the young sleeping giant awakes
And grumbles loudly about his long fitful sleep; -
I am Sol Invictus,
Let ye mortals know:by Dudas Drakaan 35 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 13 4:15 PM. In Contest, History, Mythology, Free-verse -
The girl rode at the edge of dawn,
while all around they bled; -
Freezing to death in a drafty cottage,
Raging snow pounding against the walls. -
His nightmares are now memories no more.
The scenes he lived, too terrible to say, -
My supermarine
what a fine flying machine - -
Nunna-du-ul-tsun yi.
Is the place where tears were shed. -
Air's penetrating aroma
spawned Ophelia's memory -
Dirty pretty poem
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Sights of cotton fields do take me back whenas a tomboy, the land I so did loveand daddy my gift from above amentaught me to walk those rows, our life thereofI drug a tow sack, I did like a boyI stuffed it with bolls until itby Dixie Dawn 0 lines, 21 comments, on Aug 2 11:29 PM. In English Sonnet, Life, Nature, Thoughts, South, Civil War, History
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A Jew stepped from his secretive hide;
He'd been safe from Nazi's while inside.by Wandering Woodchuck 21 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 8 5:39 PM. In Thoughts, Society, History, Terrorism -
She is the sweet moon, the darkest seduction painted white and pure.
Her name resounds in her victims' heads - a banshee of demented sorts, she rips them limb from limb. -
Prasutagus the king had died
An ally and a friend of Romeby cricketjeff 56 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 1 2:08 PM. In history -
King Henry VIII and his six wives
Some he divorced some lost their lives -
An image surfacing from the depths of time
Reflections of a mighty and vicious womanby awannabepoet 60 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 28 8:10 PM. In Lyrics, Contest, Contemporary, History, War, Society, Humanity -
we sat enthralled at the tales he told from Macaulay’s poetry
of those heroes bold in the days of old and their feats of bravery.
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Sunflowers of yellow goldand peach trees along in rowsour naked feet we dipped in the creeka kiss of wind upon was upon our cheeks Thick blby Dixie Dawn 5 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 20 7:10 PM. In Contest, LIfe, Love, History, Thoughts, time travels, soumate, twin soul
Poems about history
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