Best Comrades Poems

A friend reveals their true heart when you are feeling blue.
Their compassion cheers your spirit as they know the 'real' you.
They listen to you vent your anger when it consumes your day
To commiserate and reach out in a non-judgmental way.
A friend also is a treasure because your joy they love to share.
They help you keep...

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Some
orange-
bellied birds,
fork-tailed and dark
shiny-winged, have made 
their home on or near the 
rooftop of our house. Swiftly,
smoothly wheeling and careening,
bird-whooping to each other; freely,
happily they glide. . . comrades of the sky.

July 24, 2016 For the Etheree Contest of Kim Merryman
Note: If anyone knows what kind of bird this might be, could you let me...

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Yes,

we lived and 

we fought against each other thus enemies on 

the battlefield of hate we died

but 

death has us united and brothers out of us

has made!



No,
 
my loving brother, 

enemies we were never born but made

by 

all those who had the most to gain!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
      10 August 2018



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Comrades,
The future is over.
Nothing prevailed.
Sort out whatever is left.
I’m going to sleep, 
To wake-up in a new dream.
I’m bringing my wife, daughter, 
And the rest of my loved ones.
I’m not making any promises.
People keep shouting if there’s any rope 
On the boat for when we leave.
I don’t know what they’re talking about.
I’m constantly swimming....

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Silently seated
Side by side
Perfectly content
Mountain and sky 


A friendship unparalleled.
Like you and I....

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~  Attention, Comrades! ~

  
  We have realized our vision
    of systemic equity!

  Raise two fingers in triumph
    'V,' for Victory!

  Every distinction eliminated
    The struggle now won!

  We are all second-class citizens
    Utopia officially begun!...

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Ode to the fallen heroes
Who left their all
When duty call
Glanced at victory
At the expense of of their lives
Living children and wives
To restore honor and glory.
They fell with their faces with the foes.

They performed their duty diligently
Remember to honor them with dignity.

Ode to the fallen heroes
Who seemed out of battle have escaped
Through some profound dull tunnel
Long...

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Contextual Comrades Incarcerated,

Victims of vitriols vexation 
denied the rights of their inquisitors.
Censored by the voices of shame
guilt and hubris masquerading
as righteous indignation.
Virtue’s vanity
shouting from the “bully” pulpit
concerned only with its own reflection
“gutturally” genuflecting
before a muted “god”.



©6/3/2021...

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We meet again at the old Police club rooms
And the years melt away so soon
Old stories are told and remembered again
As laughter rises out of old friends 

Have you seen the one I worked with years ago
Saw them last week still the same you know
A shared meal together in such fun
Raise a drink together to...

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         love
     trust hope--
  comrades that
 win the war with
         hate


June 3, 2019, entered in Brian Strand's Premiere Contest 200...

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In the sunrise of their twilight
 they start to slowly gravitate
  toward a familiar rendezvous
   where, though vaguely feeling
    out of place knowing no one,
     they're reassured by a sense
      that they do recognize everyone:


     ...

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Together we stood, as if one, our thoughts in unison,
there were others among us, they were but shadows,
when we moved, we did so together, our charge- our defeat,
we died together that day, as one, our bodies blooded and battered.

And all that our lives were before an irrelevance-consigned to history,
the future would not be ours, it...

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bathroom tiles
never clean
except for the first week
before anyone takes a shower

kitchen tiles
in a variety of designs and colors
glass, ceramic, metallic,
sprucing up the area before spaghetti sauce hits them

large black and white floor tiles of a restaurant
a necessity if the juke box and chrome chairs are to pull off
the ambiance of the fifties

seven tiles of a...

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Welcome to the United States

Home of the new Russian empire

Half of you have the impression

That our Democracy should expire

You choose to bow down to some clown

Who touts Vladimir Putin

And you won't be satisfied

Until everyone starts shootin'

If you just want to be a slave

Your future it would behoove

Give our country a final wave

And pack up your...

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