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Best Commandeer Poems

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Bravada
bare up to listen if you dare
to words of poets spoken so rare

within these words chosen with care
timeless messages encoded there

our hearts to the depths...

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Categories: commandeer, allegorylife, words, life, poets,
Form: Couplet



She's Too Far Gone
She’s too far gone, away from me and what was to be.
All the many moments that glimmered gold and ran free
Through the beginning of a...

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Categories: commandeer, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Rondeau
Going To America
Going to America

“One’s country is the country where one fares best.”
Greek Proverb

It was from there to here
Nowhere near, my dear
And, from here to there
It would...

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Categories: commandeer, absence, adventure, career, emotions,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Free Power - Part One
Free Power
                       ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commandeer, political, satire, love, power,
Form: Free verse
Epilogue To Premature Cremation
Clandestine meeting between
the Orvatech Corp. and the Celestial Military Command
Date: 04.24.2258


General Avar, the High General: The third trial test run has been successfully
concluded. What are...

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Categories: commandeer, horror, science fiction, soldier,
Form: Narrative



Music Lesson
Dad, 

I want to break you out of here—
commandeer the ludicrous 
toddler-pink wheelchair 

and roll you over the salt-sprayed hills
where Camas choirs sing out indigo

hues,...

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© Soulfire  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commandeer, daughter, father, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were a Man
If I Were a Man, I'd:
     Never purchase another dress,
     chop the heels off my stilettos,
 ...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commandeer, humor, woman,
Form: Free verse
Addiction of the Soul
I cant live with my profound instability  
I cant be the poison and the remedy
I can inform, enlighten, give an idea;
cant explain how my...

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Categories: commandeer, addiction, deep, drug,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost Summer Part I
A frying dying yolk of sun winks at the dimming eve, the runaway ocean breeze… surf rushing, gushing over under feet; memories savor washing, cleansing...

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Categories: commandeer, lost love, sweet, lost,
Form: Sonnet
Sail By God's Compass and Map
There once was a nation that was like a beautiful tall sailing ship
It’s mast were like redwood trees lined up in a forest
They bore the...

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Categories: commandeer, allegory, corruption, freedom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Change: a Collaboration With Tanis Troutman
Form: Monorhyme
Indigos, light workers, empaths are hear
Struggling to change the errors of yesteryear

Power, money, corruption and greed
Will no longer be the motive that leads

The 60's,...

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Categories: commandeer, adventure, community, , western,
Form: Villanelle
A Ship Not a Poem Proceed With Caution
Sometimes I feel like a ship.
A big empty ship, torn sails,
all messed up from crashing myself into rocks and other crap.
Meanwhile, while I'm out weathering...

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Categories: commandeer, sea,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Ars Longa
Ars Longa

It finally happened!
Someone in the East Wing
Goateed a Madonna and redid a Rembrant
a la de Kooning.

A blond with Vogue patterns
is crouched on the hall--
She's...

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Categories: commandeer, art, culture, fun,
Form: Light Verse
A Simple Act of Mutiny
 A SIMPLE ACT OF MUTINY

I was a mate among a crew, it was in my younger years
when I was raw and restless and served...

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Categories: commandeer, introspection, sea, me, sea,
Form: Couplet
Hostage
You commandeer my thoughts
no matter where I am or what I do,
each day you carry me away.
I am happily kidnapped,
held hostage by love.

Tethered to me,
though...

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Categories: commandeer, child, love, mother, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs