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Byword Poems - Poems about Byword

My Love Has Tired Me of My Life
...Mahammad Fuzuli (1494-1556) Mahammad Fuzuli, the poet-philosopher, is one of the founders of the divan genre in the history of Azerbaijani and Turkish literature. He wrote his works in three langu......

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Categories: byword, art, destiny, dream, inspirational,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Brenda
...I had to come round, word on the street tells me you were caught in bed with big Brenda. Well, let me just put that rumour to bed right now. I wasn’t in bed with her, she was showing me somethi......

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Categories: byword, giggle, humorous, romance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Love My Age
...We own it and owe to it I know what love is, adore silence’s gold Content and at peace, no grudges to hold. It gets better and simple at this stage - I love my age!   I can stay up ......

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Categories: byword, age, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Proverb and a Byword
...Walk before me now, keeping my commands, my statutes and my rules: your throne shall be forever. But if you turn aside, go serving other gods, then I will cut you off, ......

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Categories: byword, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Rush Not Stages
...When you rush stages. Journeys take ages: Cause for correction, Stops for direction, Loss to earned wages, One coolly rages. You’re now a story. Not of sung glory; Rather a byword Who ne......

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Categories: byword, allusion, analogy, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother Nature
...greens landforms humans treat mother nature yet, you maintain serving humanity. every second you draw a great landscape You feed and care. selflessness. byword. trust....

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Categories: byword, analogy, mother, nature,
Form: Tetractys
To the Clouds Above
...Smoking, choking, back slapping bloking, false bonhomie in the dawns grey light. Coffee drinking, tired eyes blinking, rimmed red from lack of sleep that night. Nervous twitching, raw skin itch......

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Categories: byword, flying, remember, war,
Form: Rhyme
Coronavirus Kerfuffle - Bellicose Smile
... Bellicose Smile Ghost wandered living lonely, on the screaming silence street, rubbish rattles wind blown west, where last week walked our feet, A dog barks in the distant haze, ......

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Categories: byword, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Bless My Twigs
...Jaba Love the bite of "Bhachu" Leaves the colour of crimson Your chariots zooming past Hearts so desire your embrace Calmy I now chew worlds emerge Anthaas is when mind envisions Yo......

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Categories: byword, allegory, appreciation, deep,
Form: Prose
Byword People
... Byword People (Came By Way) Pitch black was the day after the nightmare before When the blue wails washed upon the sunset shore Dark journey’s end for the castoff children, who w......

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Categories: byword, history, identity, slavery, symbolism,
Form: Epic
2019
... Four hundred years, has it really been that long My how time flies when you’re singing captivity songs 2019 ... oh, just living in modern vexation Dwelling in the midst of a begui......

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Categories: byword, anniversary, remembrance day, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Those Were Da Days
... Workin' fo’ free from cradle ta grave Laborin' sunup ta sundown e’eryday, while Missy and Massa sat in da shade Those were da days Us darkies knew where our place was then, blonde amb......

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Categories: byword, nostalgia, perspective, slavery, song,
Form: Narrative
So Shall We All Be
... We the holy people, the chosen children of God Our glorious destiny was graciously written long ago, thankfully, on the crimson cross of Calvary We the righteous seed, the select ......

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Categories: byword, religious, spiritual, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Better Which Way
... At the opening of the plantation gate, in the letting out of the slaves Freedom came with an empty purse, as well with a curse goodbye Labor weary lost strangers straggling along th......

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Categories: byword, allusion, conflict, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Singularity
... Falling into the vortex, there is no escape You're sucked in, getting sub-atomically stripped is your inevitable fate No more straight line of linear time No more clearly defined dimension......

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Categories: byword, perspective, space, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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