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Best Crossfire Poems

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Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: crossfire, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative



Calling Cupid
Atmospheres afire with devotional dynamic desire
I call scarlet jasmine crimson vermillion and ruby red
We are caught in a crossfire as we perkily perspire
And cupid carries...

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Categories: crossfire, love, passion, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: crossfire, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Categories: crossfire, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
Crimes against humanity
In a land torn by evils cruel hands
where innocence once thrived in golden sand
echoes now haunt barren torched lands
of children lost, tears fall in graves...

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Categories: crossfire, dark, discrimination, evil,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Devil of a Deal
Where will tomorrow take us
Only God alone can tell
A brighter future a cloudless day
Or an earthly living Hell 
How much of its our doing
How much...

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Categories: crossfire, business, corruption, depression, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Featherless Angels
How did you become featherless
Angels are always blessed and do bless
Standing too close to the fire
Devil got me in a crossfire
Make sure you always tell...

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Categories: crossfire, angel, blessing, fire, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Blowback
Words,
a mouthful of sonic projectiles, 
little payloads of hurt,
rage-tipped,
enough pain
to stop any assailant,
ready to explode into the 
few feet of air between 
you and the...

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Categories: crossfire, abuse, anger, feelings, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Ring In
Ring in, ring out
Ring in, one comes in
One leaves the world
One feels the cold
One strikes the gold


Ring in, two just started there journey
Two just decided...

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Categories: crossfire, blessing, destiny, goodbye, hope,
Form: Lyric
Echoes of Strife: a Crumbling Reality
Upon the backdrop of an arid land, scorched by strife and climate, olive trees weep beneath piles of rubble while the innocent souls of Palestine...

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Categories: crossfire, betrayal, emotions, history, poems,
Form: Free verse
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale By A Wishing Well 
  (In The Wastelands Of War)

Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry...

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Categories: crossfire, war,
Form: Rhyme
100 Years Ago
 100 years ago a war began,
A war that severely scared man.
Bullets flew, bombs exploded,
Lives were lost and morals eroded.

100 years ago a war continued,
Causing...

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Categories: crossfire, death, deep, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Layers of Bricks
Most go into a relationship protecting and guarding their heart
I do the opposite, mine is open wide right from the start
Others have built bricks around...

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Categories: crossfire, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 13
The river smells like damp cotton this morning,
the weather has been so complimentary to our exertions
frost invades the nights nicely and soft sunshine comforts our...

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Categories: crossfire, adventure,
Form: Epic
Spirit Broken Again
Spirit broken again

 
                     ...

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Categories: crossfire, bereavement, death, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs