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Best Casualties Poems

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Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: casualties, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: casualties, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need...

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Categories: casualties, conflict, people, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When the Gift of Giving Has Gone
Have you longed to give your heart just for the sake of giving?
Withheld for years, for pain and tears spark fear that steals from living...

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Categories: casualties, depression, hope, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme
I See Myself In Her
-For Melissa

She asked me how long does it take to heal
In what time allotment, exactly, will it take
For forgetfulness to become a reoccurrence
A blessing for...

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Categories: casualties, friendship, hope, loss, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Invasion of Ukraine
On the twenty fourth of February in twenty twenty two
Russia invaded Ukraine and fierce fighting did ensue 
Vladimir Putin it seems, wants to restore the...

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Categories: casualties, conflict, death, military, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hello Bad Boys
FINAL EPISODE OF PURE FANTASY
Hello Bad Boys!

The starry, twilight zone high above, this night
With it’s shooting stars, and the moon, so bright,
Looked heavenly, even Venus,...

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Categories: casualties, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A world without war
Take me to a safe haven,
without soldiers at borders.
Where human rights empower nationality.
No one judges on colour or creed,
nor which super power you follow.

In a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: casualties, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arlington
Row by row for miles it seems
   perfectly aligned, the white stones rise
Stoic symbols of brave men and women
   a sight...

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Categories: casualties, military, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
I Am So Tired
I am tired of counting the red dwarf stars in the Milky Way.
I am tired of counting the 7 years of grain in Pharaoh's silos.
I...

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© Beryl Dov  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: casualties, bereavement, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Gone
Gone are the  demons, gone are the gangs
No more mafia in their ranks.

Gone are the criminals, don't need police.
Don't need lawyers, those reformed make...

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Categories: casualties, bible, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Path Most Taken
On the  gurgling  remains of Winter 
as she seeps back into the earth  
on a path around a lake 
flanked by the...

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Categories: casualties, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hate Provokes Hate
The air splits as jets rip the sky
as death pilots every flight tonight.
And fearing that everyone may die,
panicking people scatter in fright.

Harboring hate, oft levies...

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Categories: casualties, august, conflict, death, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Madelyn Blonskey
I was Second Lieutenant of the Army Nurse Corps, 
At Pearl Harbour when it was attacked and bombed;
I was in my room at the nurses’...

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Categories: casualties, death, dedication, devotion, health,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Consider Then
News flash
Paris attacks;
Violence strikes

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Innocent deaths
Terror unveils;
Death delivers

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Madness conspires
Human debris;
Bigotry unleashed

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Evil men scheme
Distorted agendas;
Self-destruct roams

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Good people die
Bloodbath escalates;
Terror unleashed

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Signs of our times
Deceptive turbulence;
Mortal casualties

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Moods swayed
Fear catapults;
Distorted...

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Categories: casualties, change,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs