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Best Battle Lines Poems

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The Viking - Repost
Glory and honour oh man of the North
Valhalla waits to welcome thee
Spend a night of passion with thy Lady
For tomorrow death or conquest await

Come into...

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Categories: battle lines, death, dream, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse



Murder In Us All
We read about the slaughter in a place far overseas,
where the multicultural blending has been there for centuries.
Where church of all denominations have been standing...

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Categories: battle lines, conflict, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Battle of Evermore
When I was just a wee young thing 
I was taught life's lesson well    
Ere instead of childhood revelry 
mine would be...

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Categories: battle lines, child abuse, childhood, father
Form: Bio
Premium Member Gettysburg
Walk does he not the specter of death, 
His saith raised high, even he himself has had
Enough killing, on the battlefield of Gettysburg,
Satan screams, stop...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: battle lines, america, history, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Listen To the Heart
Since we can't even reason to reach a logical conclusion
For this is not that season but the one filled with delusion
With the  battle lines...

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Categories: battle lines, creation, life,
Form: Rhyme



Win Lose Draw
God and The Devil sat counter
over whiskey at the boardroom table,
to negotiate the terms of her surrender;
no real surrender materialised,
but the battle-lines were re-drawn,
albeit imperceptibly...

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Categories: battle lines, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Labels
she reaches behind the smokescreen

of her sunken eyed curtain veils

films of tears void of translucence

stoke reminiscent ashes that trace

another blinding thick-skinned defeat

hidden by camouflage and...

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Categories: battle lines, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empathy Ink Not Blood Trolls on the Run
Empathy Ink Not Blood / Trolls on the Run

           An Army of pens descended, the...

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Categories: battle lines, anger, bullying, society, war,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Star
Sunlit porch dimmed by the sensation
Your alluring gloom, my fascination
Stark battle lines within me divided 
The siren call of self-degradation
Serpent and preacher wrestling inside 
Moving...

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Categories: battle lines, dark, desire, star,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Emotional Knots
Great strength lies in emotions that bind
even in those we'd rather leave behind.
We cannot break free from what we feel
yoked by sentiments that once were...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: battle lines, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Tug and Pull
Tug and pull
Spit and spat.

The battle lines 
Have been drawn.
This war will be over.
Before the next dawn.

“Stop!”, She shrieks
Loud and eerie
Her eyes full of tears
And...

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Categories: battle lines, life,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Amazon
Invisible figures moving in the mists of time,
Hidden female phantoms, masters of the wilderness
Wild, blending in as chameleons, they are the unseen.
Legend's cryptic tribe. 
Maidens...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: battle lines, beauty, courage, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Heroic Loyalty
Along the many battle lines, lie bodies scattered so
For war had raged, taking men, and boys that had to go
As officers and leaders stayed behind,...

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Categories: battle lines, inspirational, life, people, war
Form: Rhyme
Human Rights For Contest
That day the army came to our village
And ravaged every part of it with terror
I held my baby sister, blood soaked,as she took her last...

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Categories: battle lines, age, freedom, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Letters From 1939
I found an old, worn box 
Inside my antique dining hutch
It was filled with yellowed paper 
Greeting cards and such
The envelopes were dated back 
To...

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Categories: battle lines, history, life, nostalgia, war
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs