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Allegiances Poems - Poems about Allegiances

Premium MemberIf We Never Learn

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Caught between a glamorized past and an imploding present,  
Future's hope hangs upon the scales of a timid fate.  
A country splintering,  
A modern-day civil war where words fly by like bull...
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Categories: allegiances, integrity, perspective, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMake It Make Sense

...Seems like the country is in a freefall
Will reasonable people answer the call
Corruptible actions moving through the twilight zone
No way this would be acceptable, if only we’d known

The daily...
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Categories: allegiances, betrayal, change,
Form: Rhyme



Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:

...Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:
Saga, the odyssey
 lies 
And deceit.
Juliet’s drowning upon daggers blade in
Response to a Romeo’s lethal swallow. 
The need be not the chasing down of se...
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Categories: allegiances, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Dont Want to Remember

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Written to my Cousin Madelyn McKay six years ago. She was a poetess here as cancer consumed her body. May my magical and kind cousin ….rest in peace!
Maggie . She had sent me an art...
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Categories: allegiances, england, how i feel,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberCall To Country

...Remember our freedoms, lest we forget
The price of liberty and of surrender.

Tyranny cannot trample the people
Lest our future succumb to infamy.

Carried: our flag over our enemies
Our land ...
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Categories: allegiances, memorial day, patriotic,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



believe me

...if I lie, will you believe me?
what if I don't, will you believe me?
what must I do for you to believe me?
what must I say for you to believe me?

what do you believe?
what you see or what you ...
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Categories: allegiances, conflict, devotion, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoetic Podcast Episode 18 Bop

...Black and white motives, it was simple;  
The camera rolled before words came,
an adventure played on screen;
Technicolor breathed even more energy
into that delicious cinema magic;
It was all a...
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Categories: allegiances, emotions, feelings, imagination, introspection,
Form: Other

Call Me Marionette

...Call Me Marionette: 

Today I exist. I exist for no one, for nothing; I exist. I am not held to or defined by a devotion of any. My allegiances, however strong, have no contract to bear me. I dream...
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Categories: allegiances, confidence, conflict, courage, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCelebrating Your Birthday

...Oh! how gems sparkle from glinted morning dew
Wooing your view, amber rays peeking through, 
Enamoring jubilation as missives of love I renew
On halo of golden sun inscribing ovations anew 
Blush...
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Categories: allegiances, birthday, celebration, love,
Form: Rhyme

A Crack Heard Round the World

...It's just a small crack
 much like the one in the Old Liberty Bell
but here it is again growing,
 in the torch of Lady Liberty's hand;
like any crack first made
 it tends to grow and stretch
re...
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Categories: allegiances, allusion,
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberAnd Then There Were Nuns

...Black hoodie, black gloves and a black balaclava 
Allegiances born of belligerent father
A council estate with yards full of tyres
A rucksack that’s laden with tin tacks and wires 

Cars outside...
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Categories: allegiances, ireland, religion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCome and Let Us Worship the King

...OH! Come and let us worship the King!
Jesus Christ our Savior is Lord over all
The earth, the sea, and the sky.***

OH! Come and let us worship the King!
And come and let us praise His Holy name...
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Categories: allegiances, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberThree Blind Mice On Duty

...When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise

Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please

The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest ...
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Categories: allegiances, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLabryinth

...Labryrith



Lost in a dark cavern of my own making.
Wanting to forget all allegiances that I am now foresaking.

"Allegiances to what, say you"~
Answer..to stop writing about what is excelle...
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Categories: allegiances, feelings, poetess,
Form: Couplet

And Then

...in it's beginning
all who opposed it sought an end
yet they marked it's beginning as unknown 
and found it  more complicated to
make quarantine and contain
sickness
those who find togetherness ...
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Categories: allegiances, conflict,
Form: Blank verse

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