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Bayonets Poems - Poems about Bayonets

Premium Member Thought I had Better Keep My Mouth Shut
...They came for the ones who floated in on streamers. I did not care, they weren’t relatives or anything. Then the soldiers came for the polka dotted ashtinglers. I was never fond of them, so I igno......

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Categories: bayonets, fear,
Form: Free verse
Total War
...Tread not on me, brother! To live is to expand. Deterrence! Slay the Other! Cold core countermand! Boots a-click-clack, cobblestone. Midnight raid and how! Help the boy to hold his own! Sacr......

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Categories: bayonets, strength,
Form: Rhyme



Scarlet Ribbons
...Scarlet Ribbons Angry bullets curse and swear Paint scarlet ribbons through your ice blonde hair Scarlet ribbons burst the skies Scarlet ribbons haunt my eyes Then time stands still as I dri......

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Categories: bayonets, irony, love, war,
Form: Rhyme
False Dawn
...The night sings outside or what's left of it as the sun stretches and yawns, hits snooze, it's blue out. My eyes burn and no one has spoken in hours. But the quiet is punctuated by periods of......

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Categories: bayonets, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the whispering embrace of twilight's veil
...In the whispering embrace of twilight's veil, Where shadows lengthen and echoes of memory swell, I find myself drifting in a river of consciousness, Young boys, brave and bold, stepping into etern......

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Categories: bayonets, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Vultures Dance
...Timelike and the decaying bodies piled high cease to amuse the vultures now Single shots give the rebels confidence They attack in force Heavy machine gun fire from the west t......

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Categories: bayonets, death, universe, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Queen Bess's Uniform
...Queen Bess's Uniform We didn’t want the frostbite We didn’t want the burns We didn’t want to leave our homes And families far astern. We didn’t like the future As we grimly sai......

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Categories: bayonets, appreciation, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Battle of Beersheba
... I “Charge!” they said and charge they led from out of a dry desert wadi. Every man of the Light Horse Brigade across the desert thundered - their pulsin......

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Categories: bayonets, courage, history, war,
Form: Narrative
Armiens
...supposing this mined ground beneath a sky of warheads and a time of damaged armor that try to evade the point of bayonets when the planet will be called blood and seeing that harmony so......

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Categories: bayonets, analogy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Enlisted
...A troop matching, climbing the cliffs ready in arms, Guns in gaunt and bayonets fixed. armoured tanks in rows. Arrows and terrors like darts, enraged for the kill. is this a war? Yes,......

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Categories: bayonets, allegory, christian, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
In Silence
...In Silence The English ex SAS Special Forces member went to the Ukraine to fight. He travelled light and took just a small back pack and a head full of skills. A gun was a gun and a bayonet a bayone......

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Categories: bayonets, conflict, history, war,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Stranger of You
...Waiting on the line cos there’s nothing else left to do. Waiting for the time when we share the ground with you. Words, meanings, thoughts are blind but our bayonets are sharp and are magazines a......

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Categories: bayonets, absence, body, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Loos, France, Fall 1915
...Slaughter amongst the slag heaps Bodies bowed over barb wire Screeching, screaming artillery arching above soon to descend amputating limbs shattering skulls blood and brains splattering stai......

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Categories: bayonets, death, history, war, world
Form: Rhyme
The Spirits of Culloden
...The Spirits of Culloden. This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year, Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear. Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden, Pay......

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Categories: bayonets, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial
Form: Rhyme
Lest Flanders Was Alive Come 11 November
...Where once the mighty timid Flanders soldier shook Bathed in foriegn mud underfoot All but one and two a man Hard fought and pressed with bayonets clenched in hand abreast expedient beatin......

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Categories: bayonets, slam,
Form: Free verse

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