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Best Beachhead Poems

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Premium Member Whitewashing the Fence
I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beachhead, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the...

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Categories: beachhead, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Premium Member Hero's Return In Armada Mass
June 6th 1944
An Armada masses at Europe's door
Five sector landings, 160,000 troops
On the following beaches, our hero's would swoop
Utah, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold
Allow me...

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Categories: beachhead, angst, death, family, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time, Like Crashing Waves
Time Like Crashing Waves 

Time, like waves crashing on a smooth-faced sand,
Leaves imbedded ripples on shores of memory
And drop-offs marked with steep undertow warnings
In foamy...

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Categories: beachhead, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreams Forever Awake
Dreams Forever Awake
                 by Odin Roark

A father dreams of...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beachhead, dream,
Form: Free verse



This Is the Life Yup
I see in far side vision                   ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beachhead, character, culture, funny, political,
Form: Grook
Premium Member Alien Invasion
We are about to be invaded by forces unknown,
the Martians are coming and their cover is now blown.
The invasion will start in the east around...

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Categories: beachhead, war,
Form: Rhyme
Defeat
DEFEAT

Out of the waves they come.
Helmeted army of crabs
Trundle over the perfect pools 
Of starfish and periwinkle,
Murking up the sandy bottom
Of their foxholes, 
Armoured claws...

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Categories: beachhead, beach,
Form: Free verse
Respecter
My warden is the one who lights the specters.  

I apologize.  

Quite the respecter of persons.  He does it merely to emote....

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Categories: beachhead, death
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Te Arai Point
Bright sun lit the sky and I lit a joint
  and the mood was gay and our spirits free;
when headed for the coast, Te...

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Categories: beachhead, beach, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Anzac Day
Across starboard bow the cliffs drew nearer,
  into harm’s way mighty battalions drove -
men and mule upon cold waves of terror
  stormed the...

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Categories: beachhead, anniversary, soldier, war,
Form: Sonnet
The Power of Change
A courageous wave,
unfurls it's massive,
turbulent-white wingspan,
charges the beachhead, 
and flings itself, determinately,
against a rocky cliff wall:
metamorphosing into a fine mist,
floating languidly in the soft breeze,
then...

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Categories: beachhead, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Flatulent Chaos
Flatulent chaos came late last night.
My Lola Beans she jumped in fright.
A forceful toot so grand and loud.
Followed by a gaseous cloud.

it knocked poor Lilly...

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Categories: beachhead, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ins and Outs of Love
Is the passion of loins or the merging of mind
More significant role found in Love if Love's real?
And does sex make its bed (a sad...

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Categories: beachhead, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs