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Battle Scarred Poems - Poems about Battle Scarred

Battle Scarred
...No towel dries these stains Dragon scales that pierce my soul Hateful words that scorch my heart Your reptilian heart Stay hidden among strangers Battle scarred by your coarse touch ......

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Categories: battle scarred, abuse, depression, fear,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member She is a River
...“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.” “Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a fa......

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Categories: battle scarred, allegory, america, freedom, humanity,
Form: Verse



Who mocks at whom
...Magpies musing to get money, Mock at misers sans magnanimity. Lands laugh at those that wend Their way mumbling: my land, my land. Lover, at the lady-love’s spouse, Proud, playing with the love-......

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Categories: battle scarred, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She took my Man
...To the other woman, I am not mad at you. What you see in him now, is what he shows me yesteryear, only one of us will weep upon his grave: To the All-Woman Who ‘Loses’ Her Mate When love unrave......

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Categories: battle scarred, allusion, anger, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Wabi - Sabi
... We wander through so many gardens, doting robins, ignoring the crows. Our personal oasis is an unfinished poem. Plastic flowers may last longer, but their dead scent, cannot compare to freesia ......

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Categories: battle scarred, analogy, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Am Barefoot Standing On Uncleaned Soil -
...barefoot and present old soft shoes naked foot wiggling toes grimacing I come to manipulate the ground that I stand dirty souls marching forth battle scarred wiggling toes ......

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Categories: battle scarred, absence, angel, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Wish
...There was an old battle scarred bear, one day the old bear slowly dragged himself out of the woods to die. Two young hunting dogs saw him and they attacked him. All the old bear wanted was to d......

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Categories: battle scarred, destiny, inspirational, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Monsters
...He was a man that knew the word ‘monster’ well though he never quite spelt it out. My dad told me that he had seen stuff. He had a Meerschaum pipe, you know like Sherlock Holmes, and he knocke......

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Categories: battle scarred, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time To Choose - Time To Change
...Time to choose? Time to change? When I feel Love It feels like I am falling into a deep blue lake Of a baby’s eyes. When I hate, Darkness consumes me like smoke, Smothering light and extin......

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Categories: battle scarred, conflict, emotions, humanity, i
Form: Free verse
Bombard Area Battle Scared
...Battle Scared Area Did Bombard After the area they did bombard it had been badly battle scarred Out from forest soldiers did flow In past golden wheat would grow. Windows rattled and walls s......

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Categories: battle scarred, allegory, analogy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Outremer
...Damn the wind and curse the sand, Sunburned face and calloused hand. Stranger in a foreign land called Outremer. Take up arms when duty calls. Prove to God you’ve got the balls. Grit your teet......

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Categories: battle scarred, history, war,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Ancient Tree
... The ancient tree seemed to be thousands of years old with gnarled branches that were covered with moss the twisting limbs rising up to the sky and also stretching out, out and some......

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Categories: battle scarred, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member On My Way Home
...Battle scarred, zealous, victorious, tested through terrains too inglorious, unfazed, unconquered and laborious, I am now home bound! Unheard amongst many voices screaming, love locked in hear......

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Categories: battle scarred, feelings, for her, home,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Scattered Light
...For days without end my light was dim Left battle-scarred by war within Left heavy by this heart of sin Left broken by the days begin...

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Categories: battle scarred, beauty, emotions, engagement, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peace and Tranquility
...One day, I went for a forest walk feeling sad, there was a great heaviness in my heart; I could not even express why I felt so bad, but, I think my life was falling apart. Soon, I came upon a g......

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Categories: battle scarred, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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