Best Commended Poems
To War, From Youth
...oh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
yet giv'n to stain the bib of war
a bleed each mother answers for.
the whee......
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Categories:
commended, war,
Form:
Epic
Lego Narcs - Under the Cover of Night
...
Night!
It’s around nine thirty
maybe ten.
The phone rings.
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.
Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate.
Within minutes I arrive......
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Categories:
commended, abuse, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Narrative
Only Soldiers - For Contest
...Only Soldiers
They are thanked for their service
by those who never served.
Commended for their bravery
by those who never donned
the colors of the country
the red, the white, the blue.
......
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Categories:
commended, peace, soldier, war,
Form:
Verse
Satire in Limerick Acts
...
Act One: the stage and scenery are set
I was told the play, I'd not soon forget
But if truth were to be told
More like the game, whack-a-mole
I needed a hammer, not a lorgnette
Thespians w......
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Categories:
commended, satire,
Form:
Limerick
Put Them Out of Sight Now
...Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard
Bare.
Wrapped in stiff brown pap......
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Categories:
commended, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
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’ quarters, a store,
Near Tripler Army Hospital, six miles from l......
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Categories:
commended, death, dedication, devotion, health,
Form:
Quatrain
Dancing Set Her Spirit Free
...She was a shy girl
Few words spoken from her
When out in the world.
She was unsure of who she was
Living in her shell
Not unlike that of a prison cell.
Refrain
But dancing set her spirit......
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Categories:
commended, childhood, upliftinggirl, class, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Mr Bravery
...Mr. Bravery
By Curtis Johnson
There once lived a very decent and brave man who was promised three keys.
“One of these three keys, said the key holder, will unlock the door to happiness”.
The ma......
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Categories:
commended, adventure, bible, christian, courage,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 35
...His was,
A kiss of promise
A kiss of challenge
A kiss of power
And a kiss of doom
Where our lips had met
He was a threat, a strident peril
And yet a strange safety,
To which I held such visio......
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Categories:
commended, dark, deep, fear, fire,
Form:
Epic
A Toast To You America
...Here's a toast to you America! May you ever thrive!
May the Grand Old Flag, the Stars and Stripes, ever wave on high!
Here's to the stalwart patriots who endured the Revolution!
A toast to ......
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Categories:
commended, patriotic, uplifting,
Form:
Ode
My Commendable Mother
...Mother, you’re a precious treasure
A gracious gift from God indeed
Your wondrous love, I can’t measure…
Mother, you’re a precious treasure
Along your memories’ pleasure
Of care attending......
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Categories:
commended, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form:
Triolet
Friend
...“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ~ C.S. Lewis
heart breathing light
across my moments,
restoring my hop......
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Categories:
commended, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
The Curse of Black Beard
...Down deep beneath fathoms icy keep, where deadmen’s
Scream in utter silences aquatic hell, amongst the devils
Graveyard of wreckage's carnage, there exists a ghostly harbor
Of phantom ships!
Anch......
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Categories:
commended, adventure, boat, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Cross Two Pieces of Wood
...Jesus saith unto him. I am the truth, the way and the life. No man come unto
the Father but by me.
John 14:6
Enter The Lord Jesus Christ…
He bled for us.
Through the hours,
in the night.
On......
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Categories:
commended, christian, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Open Closed
...Open Closed
Open letter addressed by me to myself as
as though I am in any way complicit in my
third time failure; entering what is becoming
......
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Categories:
commended, introspection, me, me, red,
Form:
Blank verse