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Best Ballistic Poems

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


Premium Member Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Categories: ballistic, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form: Narrative



Bingo
Animals have moved in next door 
That must be true somehow 
I swear I heard my mother say 
She's a sour faced old cow ....

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Categories: ballistic, funny, mum,
Form: Verse
For Here We Die
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Rejoice, unknown of waking fall
Apart this longish bramble path
For lest we stand ‘bove lowered feel
And lone of echo’s loudest call
Of whisperings we shan’t conceal
Despised this...

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Categories: ballistic, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hard To Be Green
It's hard to be Green
in a Red v Blue drama scene

Hard to be heard
and seen
when the Blues
say the Reds
are too mean
and the Reds
find the Blues
too...

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Categories: ballistic, garden, green, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Threads
I’ve been blinded by a blistering light
An atomic angel in the nuclear night
Have they come to take us away at last?
Have they come to punish...

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Categories: ballistic, america, anxiety, conflict, dark,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival...

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Categories: ballistic, caregiving, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
evolves from enthymematic roots
toward mutually empathic,
darkly transparent
nondual dark energy

Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
pregnant...

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Categories: ballistic, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Truth Untold
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty, compassion and truth
Against injustice, greed and lies
If people all over the world will do this
It will...

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Categories: ballistic, corruption, truth,
Form: Free verse
Wheelie Bin Fun
Our wheelie bin gives me a grin,
When I put my brother in,
I push him hard from the rear,
He yells out loud, " NO rubbish here,"
We...

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Categories: ballistic, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In My Bicameral Home
In my universal-Left and unitarian-Right bicameral home
"crazy" has two functions,
ballistic weapon Left
aimed Right at Other,
ballast Right
anchoring EgoSelf within EcoOther.

"Crazy"
when that begins with "you are"
marginalizes
dispossesses nutritional...

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Categories: ballistic, analogy, culture, fear, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keeping America Safe
A prayer for God to bless NativeAmericans
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments in security.

No one "keeps" this confederation...

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Categories: ballistic, culture, earth, health, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Earthy Empathy
You've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."

I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand

I love cooperative...

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Categories: ballistic, caregiving, gospel, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Stepsister Princess
No! Cut this piece here!
No! Not there!
Why didn't you cut it right?

says Princess StepSister's
hyper-ventilated syndrome,
jonesing for her next pork chop.

I would have finished
but you bellowed...

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Categories: ballistic, appreciation, happiness, health, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Goldfish Wetdreams
So here's my big insight.
My two cents worth,
which will remain worth only a penny
unless it somehow aligns with your penny
for thoughts and shared feelings.

What if...

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Categories: ballistic, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Her Sorrows
She's in the cut, with a different kind of fabric 
She earns minimum wage, but her Instagram is lavish 
Trust me I don't know how she keeps...

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Categories: ballistic, abuse, rap,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things