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Premium Member The Deserter - Both Audio and Text
The sun was burning fiery red, there were no clouds in sight,
As we encroached upon their land to spark the bloody fight.
 
The small, outnumbered...

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Categories: deserter, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Deserter of Faith
Deserter of faith
If not today, tomorrow
Veers off glory road



Date written and posted: 06/13/2018...

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Categories: deserter, faith, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
The Deserter
One dark day you came,
With heavy pack on your back
As your tears roll down....

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Categories: deserter, dark, sad, soldier,
Form: Haiku
The Ons and Offs of Love
This morning I rose to a somber beginning.
I watched a season of my life pass,
And beheld the dissipation of sentiment.
I despised the junction known and...

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Categories: deserter, lost love, love
Form: Romanticism
Prodigal sheep
Jesus, you say bring home my sheep
You say be a shepherd like perfect You
I say my sheep have gone prodigal
They have my credit card, I...

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Categories: deserter, addiction, depression, drug, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse



Fault of Thyself
Fault Of Thyself

For every man there is reward.
For every man there are consequences.
Which kind of man are you?
 
For the brave man, there is honor.
For...

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Categories: deserter, death, dream, happy, slam,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Splendid Times
Strain not your eyes in the darkness of loneliness
For the deserter has forsaken you
His face is lost in the whirlwind of time
You feel nostalgic about...

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Categories: deserter, allegory, dedication, loneliness, missing,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Catching a Kitty
I’m an animal lover, especially of cats.
Daughter Donna admits they’re better than rats.
I had but one kitty and now I have six.
We need to catch...

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Categories: deserter, animals, cat, , cute,
Form: Light Verse
Two Face Words
Two Face Words



Quietly means quiet, silently so still
Feeling the unfelt now so real
Willing the belief to believe in your will
Finally knowing that you love to...

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Categories: deserter, betrayal, deep, heartbreak,
Form: Couplet
My War
There is a war
And I am one fighting within
A bloodshed I hadn’t known to befall
Without the cause or the means

Blindly following what others do
I fought...

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© Joel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deserter, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
The Tragedy of Celestina, Part Ii
...It was two days before she lost them,
and an arrow slashed her small finger,
a small wagon train did take her in,
but a doctor found gangrene...

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Categories: deserter, absence, heartbreak, history, journey,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Deserted American
If anyone can help me with work I am a single father about to collapse. No jobs anywhere around to pay rent. Which is coming...

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Categories: deserter, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Olive Branch
Anti-howling receives the 
deserter. There was a mass
breast-beating without
any noise.

The pugnacious jaw 
drops. Shows  a frail
sensitivity to tormented
values –

of invisible mirrors, shutting
down the wolf’s...

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Categories: deserter, art,
Form: ABC
Break Free
You may cry a river
Sleep with your heart’s shiver
You may dream a kingdom in afar

It can twist your mind
For love you cannot find
You’re drowning from...

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© Mony Reyna  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deserter, lost loveme, may, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Be Encouraged---
Just, just be
Just be encouraged
No matter how you feel
I know the feeling is real
Be encouraged
God's got you...
It's Okay
Jesus is here
Don't be dismayed
Stop being afraid
In a...

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Categories: deserter, analogy, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs