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Best Col Poems

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

return to Flanders fields -

my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
          on throes of horrors shrouded with the...

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Categories: col, history, loss, war,
Form: Rhyme

Remember the Alamo

What Col. William Barrett Travis might have said to the defenders
of the Alamo on March 5, 1836, the twelfth day of the siege.


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Categories: col, courage, freedom, hero, war,
Form: Sonnet

Unsung Children

Unsung Children

Somewhere deep inside you
Behind the patches and the plasters
Of your broken heart
Somewhere in the shadows
Lays the summer of your soul
As timid as a naked...

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Categories: col, dedication
Form: Free verse

Imitation of Life

How can you stand                     ...

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Categories: col, bible, character, corruption, men,
Form: Verse

Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2

Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and...

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Categories: col, dream,
Form: Terza Rima

Moderna Commedia, Third Canto, First Part

Ancora in sogno vaga la mia mente
Nell’ignoto esplorando come Ulisse
Quando uno squarcio si apre immantinente.
Un uomo curvo col cappuccio nero
Che in tempi oscuri per la...

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Categories: col, poems,
Form: Terza Rima

God Knows All - the Pentaphor Style

~ God  Knows  All ~
( Pentaphor  )


~O~


 God loves  you  a  lot
 He  always knows  best
 God...

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Categories: col, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Moderna Commedia, Canto 1, Part 1

Dopo lunghe vicende della vita
Mi ritrovai seduto su un divano       
Con un telecomando fra le dita.
When my life struggles...

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Categories: col, dream, , western,
Form: Terza Rima

Praying For Love - the Linked Style

~ Praying  For  Love ~ 
( Linked ) 


~O~



Praying  for   Love
 P
 Love  in  this   world
...

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Categories: col, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Stephane Mallarme Translations

These are my modern English translations of sonnets by the French poet Stephane Mallarme.

The Tomb of Edgar Poe
by Stéphane Mallarmé
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Transformed...

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Categories: col, eulogy, extended metaphor, french,
Form: Sonnet

Moonbee's Sci Fi - Bar Jokes and Riddles

" Sci-Fi Bar Jokes & Riddles ... "

( 1 Tim. 1: 11)

(1.)
"Star Wars Bar ..."

A Jedi Knight and a Wookie, walk into a bar ...
The...

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Categories: col, humor, planet,
Form: I do not know?

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies grow;
Their roots reach down to twine amongst the bones,
The mouldering bones.

Each skull in grinning disbelief voices 
Its eternal...

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Categories: col, anniversary, bereavement, betrayal, body,
Form: Blank verse

Haiku Birdwatch

White mist drapes the col

bitter cold nags at my face ~

black grouse lekking....

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Categories: col, morning,
Form: Haiku

My Jazz, My Elegy

Reet peteet
go the feet
in Silk Shiny Stockings
toe tapping
knee slapping
Dizzy's beat with Hendricks' words ...
the Poet Laureate of Jazz, dear Jon.

Feel the funk
laid down by Monk
sway...

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Categories: col, history
Form: Free verse

I Took the Dare

There were Indians just over the Brazos
With a buffalo herd in between
They weren’t trying to stay hidden 
They wanted to be seen
The chief of these...

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Categories: col, adventure, cowboy-western, native american,
Form: Ballad