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Best Conscript Poems

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Vultures
It was not so
It was not so
Before the invasion of the vultures
In those days
When being black makes us thick
When our communion whispers across oceans
When our...

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Categories: conscript, history,
Form: I do not know?



Glory To the Ukrainian Freedom Fighters
Glory to the Ukranian Freedom Fighters
 
Democracy and freedom are under attack
Beaurocracy and greed man,
Don’t let this war criminal come back
Putin is lootin’ the streets of...

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Categories: conscript, war,
Form: Rhyme
Three Fates
Life's thread is spun, measured, and snipped
By three dainty pairs of deft hands
To weave the cold words of life's fickle script.

Clotho spins life with a...

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Categories: conscript, imagination, words, , fate,
Form: Villanelle
Loving the Fight
Taming a warrior no end in sight                  ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: conscript, allusion, dance, desire, romance,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Road To Perdition
With the advent of those with devious intent
To serve own greed, a heaven torn apart
A shift into darkness, perpetual, distend
A vendetta, to burn through generations,...

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Categories: conscript, history, inspirational, peace, people,
Form: Rhyme



Corporate Pimps
Everybody deserves a day off,
even corporate pimps
Let somebody else watch the Madison Avenue whores
advertise their seductive cable street wares
Conscript the company pimp wannabe intern simps
Then...

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Categories: conscript, allusion, corruption, jobs, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
We Dance, Misunderstood
What “ matters” matter?
the why of things, the how?
If I spoke in an enlightened manner, 
would you be convinced of my meaning?
Women cry out like...

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Categories: conscript, angst, anxiety, aubade, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pathway Home
This mortal world feels like a maze;
Times and seasons in clouds of haze;
The pathway home a blurry daze.

This tedious swirl feels long and tough;
Moods and...

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Categories: conscript, angst, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haiku Mosaic
Dark comes swift
Daylight departs;
Nightfall intervenes

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Hair salon tour
Dye and cut;
Grooming culture

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Images float
Ideas now hurry;
Deadlines cut short

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Journal monologues
So much to write;
Mundane thoughts conscript

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Old magazines
Outdated rapture;
Gossip yellowing

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One certainty...

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Categories: conscript, allusion, prejudice,
Form: Haiku
Unsung Hero
Trite foot soldier status lacking
Pedigree earned by under stress not cracking
Anonymous ward of the state with little backing
Nameless face sent into the infernal abyss hacking
On...

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Categories: conscript, dedicationsoldier,
Form: Rhyme
All the Ghosts
All The Ghosts 

Families hushing 
Around crackling transistors, 
Like the sound of rushing 
And muffled whispers,
And all the ghosts enter 
Through a heart-shaped door
Where a...

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Categories: conscript, war,
Form: Rhyme
Love This Hate That
music is more than an obsession its magic
no room in my heart for another thing
Why does the devil talk to me and i listen to...

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Categories: conscript, art, death, faith, fantasy,
Form: Personification
Ennui
Awakened by the melancholic melody of necessity,
Roused by contractual obligation,
Against darkness in endless adversity,
Evolved into a specie with night vision,
Subconsciously performed ritual dances,
Penance to restore...

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Categories: conscript, angst, career, how i
Form: Rhyme
Ballad.
Go saddle me the black black steed
For I am going on a long long journey
Go wipe away the tears that roll
Across brawny cheeks of gypsie...

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Categories: conscript, angst, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Ballad
The Framework of Change
The Forty-Fourth Conscript of the People.
A portrayal of intellectual and political multiformity.
Its present-nature is captivating and inspiring,
Its epochal-nature is unmarred and univocal,
And its future-nature is...

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Categories: conscript, inspirational, political
Form: Imagism

Book: Shattered Sighs