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Attrition Poems - Poems about Attrition

Premium Member Cross Currents
... Stream gushes on The rocky terrain My boat plunges In the whirlpools’ Spiralling anguish Attrition perpetuates, time to get onto the sail The saviors winsome winds of uplifting sola......

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Categories: attrition, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Shape
One Storm
...They weather the storm quietly patiently waiting for the chickens to come home to roost What's the use in complaining about the rain when it only brings much needed change? Winds blow fashio......

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Categories: attrition, perspective, philosophy, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Defiant I am Defiant I'll Always be As I stand by Humanity in the Face of Adversity
...Defiant I am, Defiant I'll Always be.. As I stand by Humanity in the Face of Adversity To merely consider our lives as in a listless tide, and only following the herd, Or the life of a caged ......

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Categories: attrition, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Clouds Of the Future in the Present Day Part 2
.....continued from Part 1: Mass censorship is sadly all pervasive to the uninformed and relative luxury smitten blind, A World view bubble, Idolatry, Idiocracy Creates all sorts of ......

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Categories: attrition, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member OLD SCORES THEY SETTLE
...They battle on and show no shame The other side must take the blame. And each side thinks that it can win Punishing others for past sin. Increase the suffering more and more. Kill and maim to......

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Categories: attrition, conflict, military, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The world we live in
...The world is in a great turmoil All around disquiet and confusion reign Russia and Ukraine engage in war of attrition Massacre of genocidal proportions Has torn Gaza strip to a mountain of ru......

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Categories: attrition, abuse, anger, bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Shock on us
...What manner of vengeance As a stench invading fragrance The kind unlike princes and kings Worthy to be denied pedestals and wings To never be beheld when people look up For it shall be bile in......

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Categories: attrition, introspection, prayer, social, society,
Form: Rhyme
Oh we
...Oh we righteous striving to cease being sinners Do we fight with the aim of being winners When the fight goes on and on Seemingly a curse on every eon That to find earthly favor and treasure ......

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Categories: attrition, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Midway II
...As frothing wakes unveil a racing tide a frontal surge unleashed intended taunt, ‘twas but a strafe to lead the prey outside then strike a blow amidst the faring jaunt. To draw first blood, then......

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Categories: attrition, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Moscow II
...As swift assaults endeavored to prevail, the magnitude of death was asinine. ‘Twas such a toll above a measured scale that no explicit value could define. As battles raged, no exploit could surmo......

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Categories: attrition, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Yellowing of the Foyer
... 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 ......

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Categories: attrition, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soar Up To The Sky
... 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......

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Categories: attrition, appreciation, dream, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Battle for the Atlantic III
...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......

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Categories: attrition, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
SCALING MY HEART
...SCALING MY HEART Fiery tough twists a blade Oozing plough digs a hole On the scale raging all days On a scar; not healed on rolls Way back I weighed lot better On my path; battered to the l......

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Categories: attrition, body, character, feelings, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yet, More Than a Brother
...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......

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Categories: attrition, allusion, analogy, beauty, character,
Form: Alliteration

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