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Best Awol Poems

Below are the all-time best Awol poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of awol poems written by PoetrySoup members


Roomba Escape
A Roomba* in England went AWOL;
It disappeared from a hotel. 
They searched high and low 
All the spots it might go 
With no help from...

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Categories: awol, missing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Kool For Katz Kissed
"Kool for Katz Kissed"



Wake me when it’s all over
I’m having a swinging time
dreaming my purrrrrfect dreams
Hanging with the OM monks 
I’m a nun hanging loose...

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Categories: awol, freedom, imagery, irony, peace,
Form: Free verse
Prodigal sheep
Jesus, you say bring home my sheep
You say be a shepherd like perfect You
I say my sheep have gone prodigal
They have my credit card, I...

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Categories: awol, addiction, depression, drug, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Possums On the Run - Part 2
 
"Possums on the Run - Part 2"

No ice cream, 
cupboard’s bare
ultra Fahrenheit sun, 
hang out the clothes
do the dinner run, 
setting table, 
setting sun,
Can...

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Categories: awol, childhood, father daughter, journey,
Form: Free verse
When a Son Loses His Father
Now that he's without him
what is he working for
He had never truly realized
His dad drove him to want more
With working came acceptance
replaced emotions he concedes
and...

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Categories: awol, death, father, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Objects of Affection
“Objects of Affection” 

Objects of affection
drop like white marbles
from the sky 
we love to look 
to our heaven
for all kinds
of angels

all’s fair in 
love and...

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Categories: awol, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hellllpppppppp I'Ve Lost My Banana
Went to get my banana as I headed for the door
It had been on the table that much I know for sure
Last night I put...

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Categories: awol, food, humorous, missing, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inner Compass
weary somber skies daub teary clouds outside my window
while in my heart dance rainbows to blissful cheery melodies
inner compass compensating for the fickle sun gone...

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Categories: awol, heart, joy, motivation, music,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 2nd Third
NOTE:  This is the 2nd THIRD of a funny 3-part piece. No other way to post it due to file size limitations. It's a...

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Categories: awol, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative
Undone
I told Cupid to halt his arrow
I wasn’t trying to fall in love;
when I was in sorrow. 
He was so understanding,
He hatched his bow and...

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Categories: awol, anxiety, character, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Fizzy Christmas
Fizzy Christmas
By Danny Sroda

There is a story which has been untold
Which I cannot any more withhold
It's about a man who you all know
Who lives out...

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Categories: awol, business, childhood, children, christmas,
Form: I do not know?
Rectify Is a Better Word
acrostic

Regiments  of verse march in rhythm. 
Eagerly they traipse word by word
Combing the theater of my mind.
Trying  this ancient captain’s orders.
Inspired to pass...

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Categories: awol, 11th grade, allegory, military,
Form: Acrostic
The Eye of the Sea - Part 6
Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 5


There washed ashore the Devil’s Whore,
Who had three times been paid,
Preserved through Sin and worshippin’
Beelzebub and the...

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Categories: awol, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
The Virile Knight
The virile Knight gives evil eye to all 
And champion to all who missed the call, 
A long forgotten conflict ripped our soul 
The virile...

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Categories: awol, war, war, light, light,
Form: Narrative
In the Midst of It
Let me tell you a true story.
Hopefully to show God’s power and His glory.
Two army buddies, friends that went A.W.O.L.
Absent without leave a military crime,...

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Categories: awol, faith, inspirational, war, care,
Form: Rhyme

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