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Arms Race Poems - Poems about Arms Race

Premium MemberYour Hate Has Poisoned Me

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         O World, your hate has poisoned me

        Once I felt that peace was just a shout away
        Endless war now seems a single shot away

        Once I looked for the good in folks ...
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Categories: arms race, hate, hope, peace, sad,
Form: Couplet

Calamity Jane

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A voice from a woman that has emotional depth and concern for humanity is often shunned through strong arming of sources to discredit her psychological state.

If you steal from a children’s ca...
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Categories: arms race, fear,
Form: Free verse



Sympathy For Peace

...Zionist
for Israel, but
I don't invest,
in WAR...
I'm a pacifist...
For Arab 
as for any other people
being legalistic
without exclusivist predilection...
for peaceful solution
no arms race...
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Categories: arms race, extended metaphor, inspirational, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry

Death of Magic

...No tears, no self-harm
No casting aside of ideals
That World of Magic existed
And was slain before me

Time marches inexorably
And the arms race of tech does so at a sprint
Born on the cusp of...
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Categories: arms race, memorial, memory, pollution,
Form: Free verse

Chess Pieces

...Chess pieces
By Michelle Morris
14/08/2021

We are like chess pieces, 
Being moved around the board;
Forever in play for political payoffs
For control of the world. 

Boundaries invisible, y...
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Categories: arms race, games, humanity, life, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberArms Race

...Nuclear missiles
  as outdated as whistles

Hypersonic jets
  don't scare my pets

Multiple warheads
  won't knock you dead

The winner of my weaponry race
  two loving arms take first plac...
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Categories: arms race, care, death, love, war,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberArms Race

...Arms, legs,
fists, feet,
beating chests;
teeth meet.

Stones, bones,
sharp-honed tusks,
poisoned darts;
obsidian clubs.

Slings, arrows,
outrageous bows,
black-edged flints;
sharp-pointe...
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Categories: arms race, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Second Incoming

...A probe enters the solar system, lays low behind our moon
It’s mission, monitor mankind’s behaviour, we’re impugned 
A decision needs making, if our planet should be dragooned 
By sending a huge a...
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Categories: arms race, allegory, fate, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberArms Race

...We've heard all about the stockpiling,
the toilet rolls, lettuce and beans,
but secretly more of this is going on
unnoticed, and behind the scenes.
The Government, in our best interests,
(which ...
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Categories: arms race, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Paradise

...Earth is not like heaven at all
No meaning, no environment,
Every second screams: "Kill!"
And enters the arms race.

There is a war going on here and there,
And people hit each other hard,
Why...
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Categories: arms race, earth, home, paradise, planet,
Form: Blank verse

Follow the Folly

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There’s a monkey tag-team of mo-rons 
running things   ~   Polly Would Pinocchio style
Dumb and Dumber dolts 
got dim a dullard king Dumbo
dunce chair directing

Elephant Man, with t...
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Categories: arms race, humorous, perspective, satire, word
Form: Alliteration

Gomorrah Toys

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Military maneuvers,
conducted by starship troopers,
make a Lot of king Chedorlaomer noise

Earhole space
penetrated by the Pentagon puffing pace ... 
stealth sound of smoke signals...
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Categories: arms race, truth, violence, war, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration

End of the Arms Race

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Archie A. Agag, the American Idol Kaiser
Be hiding in an underground concrete bunker
Closed-eyed hate peeper sleepy late-riser
Dreaming of a bottom end H-bomb dumpster
Enter the REM ...
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Categories: arms race, perspective, society, truth, wisdom,
Form: ABC

The Doomsday Clock - 2 Minutes To Midnight

...Seventeen minutes to midnight - the world enters a new era,
nuclear arsenals reduce as peace creeps ever nearer.

Fourteen minutes to midnight - our hopes begin to fade,
as we discover no new wor...
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Categories: arms race, holocaust, political, war,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberNorth Korean Rocket Boy

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Countries should launch rockets for the exploration of space.
A little Asian nation wants to join the nuclear arms race.
The capital city is known as Pyongyang.
Its leader is a little xe...
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Categories: arms race, political, war,
Form: Rhyme

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