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Best Arms Race Poems


Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Fat People - Xxix
...Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps th......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arms race, abuse, chocolate, depression, health,
Form: Epigram
A Four Minute Warning
...A Four Minute Warning

A light shining from the sky
A  deafening  scream from the town near by
A flashing light
A shooting flame
Seems like the Russians again
Screaming shouting cries of pain
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Categories: arms race, inspirational, passion, war, race,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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
Self Destruction
...Having surpassed the ides of March. 
Denounced the the baneful glare.
Yet my grief befriends Sanity.
Doctrine of hate preached from
Pulpits and podiums.
Marathon of the arms race.
Humans of ano......

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© Sam Raj  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arms race, emotions, march,
Form: Free verse
Blind Justice
...They say we are free
yet the laws are governed by hypocrisy
doctrines by decree
dictating to you and me

Justice is blind 
and the gavel comes down
hidden in plain sight is 
the criminal just......

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© Ron Flatow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arms race, education, people, social, money,
Form: Free verse



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
Miss Exotic
...Sorrow is the spawn of rich, elected meisters;
the Arms Race, the silent wars, and particle colliders,

The climb of Sputnik, the fires, and the importance of Geneva,
but the radaranges and spy p......

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Categories: arms race, allusion, conflict, symbolism, technology,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member North 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
Hollow Inside Llewyn Davis
...inside llewyn davis a chilly hollow faint heartbeat
couches ripe for self-pity's starlit sleepless night
oh freres coen what happened to
four in the morning cold baked beans
rapping about the gig
bus......

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Categories: arms race, absence, betrayal, break up,
Form: Ballade
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
Premium Member Arms 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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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arms race, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Follow the Folly
...

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
Watchmaker
...Physics
Calculus
Uranium
And Plutonium

Every resource we can find
To make a better tomorrow

From passenger planes to fighter jets
Nuclear power to atomic bombs
From standard jeeps to gian......

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Categories: arms race, life, political, war
Form: Free verse
Koreas Ticking Time Bomb
...Korea’s Ticking Time Bomb

North and South Korea at arms race heaven, 
a massive number of weapons all waiting to be used – 
tanks, guns and bombs. 

One war was enough but nearly fifty years h......

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Categories: arms race, conflict, history, war,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry