Attrition Poems - Poems about Attrition

... The flesh sashays... so slowly... in time. Live long enough you'll become orphaned. Pray. the orphan is filled with chimes of sweet memories. The soul will certainly release from the chains ......Read the rest...

... Written: December 13, 2023 ____________________________________________ If the ocean's water were used as writing ink for pens to write down our words of praise the oce......Read the rest...

...His restless wolves still taunt each dauntless ship, though sly attrition neutralized their hunt, for subterfuge let not a whisper slip as vantage shifted on the battlefront. A riddle solved unve......Read the rest...

...Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships Angst of redundancy seethes from within as l......Read the rest...

...I Stare in the Mirror I stare in the mirror and what do I see? An old man with rheumy eyes looking at me. Who is this old codger, this balding old shell, Who cannot r......Read the rest...

...My fingers feverishly racing over the keys, Searching for the words…the right words To express in verse my embattled pleas On behalf of endangered animals and birds. I was moved to ......Read the rest...

...In my hour of fatherly ambition long I dwelt on my fields of battles fought, arrow, not of peace but life’s attrition might slowly pierce my last refuge methought. Yet having crossed my R......Read the rest...

...Based on observable And well-documented evidence, War is nothing but the deliberate And systematic erasure of human life, With the purpose of achieving Some political goal. In quantifying the......Read the rest...

...If life on Earth is solely passion, It owns no honorable mission; All The Topics in Biology not Fission, Israel’s Fought Wars not only Attrition. Plain passion forges the vow That makes man a ......Read the rest...

...~And God said we are his children God said where are his children we were naked alone in the garden all things are ours we raised the lands I named everything I am Earth king while in the garden the ......Read the rest...

... Double-edge sword in a war of attrition Slack-jacket Tony on a one-man mission White-coat lackeys gather ‘round to hear We’re in the business of fear: Shoot ‘em up boys shoot ‘em ......Read the rest...

...I wasn't born with long elegant God-limbs to race across the flowered plains of heaven I was conceived from the hammer and anvil of a gray witted, quick to anger blacksmith. My shoulders will ......Read the rest...

...Stream gushes on The rocky terrain My boat plunges In the whirlpools’ Spiralling anguish Attrition perpetuates, time to get on the sail The savior winsome winds of uplifting solace Sa......Read the rest...

...Second mag time and more damage below A gas bottle blows in an orange blast of debris While this occurs beepers still beep and lights flash It’s a huge yard and there are many targets still Slo......Read the rest...

...If the day dawns, at last, ‘Men’s Group’ (1) wants to address ‘loss’ (most feel in retirement), I’d jump at the chance! Let’s be fans! I am loath to leave ‘Men’s Group,’ but moved too, to let go (......Read the rest...