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Best Black Flag Poems

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Under the Black Flag
Unleashed upon the enemy
We tear through their lines
Showing no mercy
In the midst of battle

Feeding the Flesh Grinder
Severed off limbs
We resupply our food stocks
The more we...

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Categories: black flag, adventure, death, fantasy, music,
Form: Lyric



Black Flag
The official name is 
Contrails
No more than condensation

The alternate one
Chemtrails 
poo pooed across the nation

I can't help notice
months go by
With none in sight

Are we to...

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Categories: black flag, health,
Form: Rhyme
Freddy the Fly Meets Sidney the Spider
Freddy the Fly
Meandering on
the ceiling one day,
Suddenly got a "heads up!"

He glimpsed from 
three hundred or so,
Of his left side eyes,
A sight guaranteed
To make a...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black flag, adventure, fantasy, nature,
Form: Burlesque
The Pirates Life For Me
yo ho yo ho into the horizon i go 
the wind at my back the wood under my feet 
a  treasure awaits calling my...

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Categories: black flag, boat,
Form: Free verse
Everything Is Not As It Seems
Back in '63,
I remember vividly,
only 6 years old,
and watching our
black and white tv,
showing Lee Harvey Oswald
being escorted down the hall,
handcuffed and under arrest,
when out of...

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Categories: black flag, allusion, america, remember, ,
Form: Light Verse



The Janitor
Joe the janitor,
was working at area 51,
as usual till
there was no more sun, 
when suddenly the power went out,
got a flashlight from his janitor cart,
and...

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Categories: black flag, humor, science fiction,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dust Bowl Anthology
a mass migration  
heading west to farm the land ~
inexperienced 

in the arid soil
ordinary crops planted  ~
dry farming ignored

drought and poor farming
topsoil blowing...

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Categories: black flag, farm, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Haiku
Dirge of Aleppo
Whorls of smoke mock the void of the heavens; in a wiggling ascent 
With lusting waists of a samba decent.
Turmoil combs the fragile mane of...

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Categories: black flag, political, religion, sad, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ready, Set, Go and Heave Became Heard
Young hands gripped the red raw rope,
For a fight to the ultimate death,
Each team to march, to a tantric tune,
Stabbing a stomp of feet with...

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Categories: black flag, games, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Black Fifty, Most Nifty
We raise our glasses while waving the black flag
to friends sailing through the mid-century drag.
When embracing Kathy and Ginny
we will concede to know the skinny
since...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black flag, funny, people
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Resting In Peace
much can be said about
Black Flag and Raid
the devious poisons
that for bugs are made
in obvious places
the concoctions are sprayed
leaving the residue
that i think bugs crave

they...

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Categories: black flag, bullying, crazy, dark,
Form: Blank verse
The Desert Gypsies
We ride across the desert sands
Like pirates out at sea. 

Two Humvees accompany me 
 12 gypsies all we be

We fly the Jolly Roger, a...

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Categories: black flag, business, culture, freedom, identity,
Form: I do not know?
Dirge
there goes a lonely man on a one horse carriage

the horse though pulls the carriage he is always hungry 
because he has nothing to eat...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black flag, abuse, death, funeral, lonely,
Form: Verse
The Streets
I'm trap in the streets so I let my black flag hang.

As I put my sign in the air damn right I bang.

But right now...

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© Dion Bess  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black flag, death
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When I Died
"Life denies everything to some. Though they live and die with no dignity, they'll be crowned thereafter"
.......by the poet


I lived poor and died poor.
No obituary...

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Categories: black flag, bereavement, death, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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