Get Your Premium Membership

Alamo Poems - Poems about Alamo

Premium Member painted ladies
... painted ladies over the years i have forgotten her eyes that her smile was soft and her hair like chiffon on a wednesday morning we walked along stanyan street celebrating the color......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Only One
...They never told me the truth Always led me wrong So why should I believe, That this white man would be the only one to show me the way home? And I'm supposed to remember the Alamo? When power i......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Joshua Moore’s Military Teens
...Dive board jumpers Korea Germany Like wandering Jew eternally No surname are necessary Everything is transitory Can’t remember the names of anyone from 1st to 5th grade I wonder what it is li......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Border-lie
...A border is a line drawn in the sand Constantly shifting if you have time to see A personality is a borderline ebbing Time ceaselessly flowing us away One side unreachable as the far sho......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, extended metaphor, planet, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad About Towns
... When we set out on a road trip We didn’t stick to the old script And were gladly amazed And rarely unfazed Hitting strange towns though some were skipped We started from Thatsnot, OK Which ......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member From the Front
...The recon doesn't take long. Halfway down the street will do it before hell opens up and leaves you shuffling along a narrow ledge overlooking the drop. It takes all your strength to stay uprigh......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, anxiety, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Related To Jim
...Grandpa was a Bowie. A tight-lipped protestant Ulsterman who drifted into the Poblacht na hÉireann in search of a cure for his cold heart. His thin lips wed a soft Catholic girl. He joined the......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alberta Texas Florida - Atf
...Alberta Texas Florida … We call her Bert for short Was born near the Alamo And soon brought to Port Salerno in Florida … duh! Where she contracted Covid And languished in the ICU Lucky to find......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, fate, irony, satire, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Have Remained the Outsider
...They fortified themselves into an Alamo of their own making Walled themselves to keep the weird one out –namely me. I thought it was brilliant, and it was totally unexpected. I knew them, and ha......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Keeping the Interloper Out
...They fortified themselves into an Alamo of their own making Walled themselves to keep the weird one out –namely me. I thought it was brilliant, and it was totally unexpected. I knew them, and ha......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
No Business Like Swamp Business
...NO BUSINESS LIKE SWAMP BUSINESS There’s no business like Swamp faux business There’s none do such a show Everything about it is illusion Everything about it is a lie Where else could you get s......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Get What You Want Cafe
...Vanilla convocate Cherry mamberley Chocolate cake Alamo Boysenberry peach pie Lemon meringue Main dish french fries and crepe crescent in salmon patties Yuck all this and a tebow fu......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, angel, appreciation, celebration, food,
Form: Free verse
Gone To East Jesus
...A big-headed dreamer, pockets full of hope Say, that and five bucks gets you a cup of joe Worn out Army boots and my Goodwill coat Sky's overcast and it feels like snow Rolling on good time, gu......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, adventure,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Remember the Alamo
...What Col. William Barrett Travis might have said to the defenders of the Alamo on March 5, 1836, the twelfth day of the siege. Remember the Alamo ......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, courage, freedom, hero, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jericho Walls
...If for but a minute I stopped to only mourn and scorn the dark deeds, To only pause and grieve for all that bleed from the hands of bad seeds, To only complain, detest, protest for redress in the......

Continue reading...
Categories: alamo, christian, god, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things