)zymandias Poems | Examples of Ozymandias
Ozymandias is a term that is related to two famous ironic poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Many poets now reference this term in their sonnets and other poems.
Liquid Sky Distortion
Lost in this Little, big world
Of nightly sweats
I see a road sign that diverts
My attention to swerve
Away and Wake up
From the Reality around me ...
I just need a break...
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Categories:
ozymandias,
Form: Free verse
Eagerness
“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
Desiderius Erasmus
it’s flesh versus flesh in the pursuit of life,
great kingdoms have been built on rivers of blood,
history knows the fate of...
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Categories:
ozymandias, angst, anti bullying, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Let Haiti Be Absolutely FreeLet Haiti be absolutely free
Haiti is the father of Freedom and Liberty
Haiti is the first nation to forever ban or abolish slavery
And the slave trade in the western hemisphere
And in the world
The first to practice...
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Categories:
ozymandias, africa, america, black african
Form: Rhyme
Greenstay your hand
with its obtund touch
take away your arid mouth,
your incurious eyes from me,
from my unscaled sight
you are but dull clay,
Ozymandias, barren
and I am fresh green
that strives for the light
spilling from your crumbling ashlar
jubilant, with...
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Categories:
ozymandias, abuse, courage, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Sonate of LustI would dance on your tongue for 3 days in a row.
until you were completely wet.
pray for submission, pray for love,
a love that burns, in the body,
in the soul and between...
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Categories:
ozymandias, romance,
Form: Free verse
AlidiumakalliA 55 gallon barrel
Full of pulverized
Oyster shells
Mixed with wood ash
And sawdust
And porklard
55 gallons of
Pulverized oyster
Shells.mixed
With basalt.
Alkalinity
Alkalinity
Mind the
Bushels bouiz
Mind the
Bushels!...
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Categories:
environment, future, ozymandias,
Form: Ballade
Intuition 111111 known to represent intuition
Trusting yourself fully is the mission
Have you ever felt something about someone
everyone else was blinded by the gaslight
but some time passed
and turns out - YOU WERE RIGHT
How many times...
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Categories:
ozymandias, 12th grade, allusion, introspection,
Form: Lyric
Bed of LiesFreedom startles me
Since fear is encircled behind your beds of lies
Acclaimed messiah plays a game with you
Compelling you to be the pawn in your competition
Every drop of his utterances counts
As my blood bubbles...
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Categories:
ozymandias, 12th grade, anger, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
Swimming Against the Current[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here. Those poems are tangents to this poem that more completely tell the tale of rise, pride, hubris, fall,...
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Categories:
ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form: Free verse
The Day of RecogningThe day of reckoning
A bird with an enormous wingspan darkened the sky
it was a night of horror in the Middle East.
A new country born in sin and filched land arose
blood ran in ancient, narrow...
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Categories:
conflict, corruption, ozymandias,
Form: Sonnet
The Song ContestThe song contests
I came across an apple tree it looked like
a child’s idea of this type of tree, big red
apples and a blue sky; when I realized I do not like
big red apples...
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Categories:
april, arabic, beach, ozymandias,
Form: Blank verse
SlipbackYou must see Slipback, the popular new app!
It's a primary clock of tick-tock;
brief time-travel is what you can make.
Anything can necessarily be changed in and for
just a few seconds.
Certainly, lives may unravel,
living life as a...
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Categories:
culture, fantasy, ozymandias, science
Form: Free verse
Talking To a SkullThere I was, stranded in a hull
Talking to a skull
While trapped in the Maw
of the deep
Cold Water at my knees
I started to plea,
"Why Sell my Soul to the Deep?"
While dead men say nothing
Cold Water...
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Categories:
death, ocean, ozymandias, psychological,
Form: Free verse
SoliloquySigh
Someone say
Something
Sate my starving
Synaptic surges
That slowly but
Hopefully won't
Succumb to so
Stated selfless
Self-proclaimed
Salesmen and
Women
Selling
Subjective
Sylabbic
Alphabet
And omega
Steamed
Stodgy
Soup
That
I seemingly
Stir slightly
Swirling
With a
Spoon
While
Staring
Some
Where
Where
Babel has
Fallen into
Babble but
Silas sings
Off these
Shackles
So sing
I while
Silent
Stupid
Sheeple
Graze on
This...
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Categories:
ozymandias, christian, faith, inspirational, light,
Form: Fibonacci
What Calls the HeartIn life,
What calls the heart becomes the legacy
We leave behind
And those endowed will assure that its destiny
Will be manifest in kind.
Builders of
Tombs and monuments, attempts at perpetuity
By those whose vainglories feared only mortality,
(Since...
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Categories:
ozymandias,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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