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Best Deserters Poems

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Deserters
I don't mind them leaving at all
It is their right 
To leave me like a floundering ship behind
We should not force a soul to do...

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Categories: deserters, allegory, love, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lady Fingers
We were armed at fourteen with BB guns
and reckless abandon.
So started many of our cousinly adventures.

Central Utah has hot, hot summers
and little else going for...

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Categories: deserters, adventure, brother, childhood, cousin,
Form: Prose
Enjerciendo Prudencia
Dedicated to: Myself and the kindred spirits

Rise up today so gracefully and comely. Let not the present by the past be spoiled. You are entitled...

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Categories: deserters, dedication, depression, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Mona-Lisa Frowns
Mona-Lisa Frowns


No darkness, drabness or sadness; could ever 
depress or compress Mona Lisa's rainbow smile. 
Because, Mona Lisa has the most expensive smile 
on planet...

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Categories: deserters, imaginationrainbow, planet, drug,
Form: Classicism
The Eye of the Sea - Part 4
cont'd
These anguished howls that knew no bounds,
Continued for hours without count.
‘til a silence as deep as eternal sleep
Enveloped the ship in its gowns.

And amidst the...

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Categories: deserters, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Tear
“The Tear”



How many oceans of salt 
does it take to form a tear?

Unrelenting waves of sorrow 
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked...

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Categories: deserters, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten Democracy In the Reign of Fools
When the sun looks into darkness 
upside down cowboy's lend a hand to chaos 
deserters of faith rejecting lawful behaviour 

Persuading bodies believing something good...

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Categories: deserters, abuse, atheist, betrayal, hate,
Form: Terza Rima
Devil's Dupes
discontented Divine deserters
dastardly demons
damnation deserved 
devil’s dumb dupes...

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© Al Beech  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deserters, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Nobody Told Me Anything

Nobody from command radioed me,
nobody sent an encrypted sat signal thru
My superiors data downloaded me nothing,
I received not one order on what next to do
Lowly...

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Categories: deserters, dark, psychological, stress, war,
Form: Narrative
We Wish It Is Not True
Our crazy hurry outwits our wits
We wish it is not true. the car speed.
The restaurants. the caution in the winds.
The rape and early sex the...

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Categories: deserters, satiremen,
Form: Free verse
The Cruel Orchards
[AFTER ALL THE INNOCENT RAPE VICTIMS.]

Ah! Cruel orchards!
Humiliates, tortures!
Until the angel comes
Beneath the abode of stars;
From the heavens mass
Revealing downwards!


Ah! Fortune on Evildoers!
Deserters,
The lusty deceivers.
Cruel...

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Categories: deserters, dedication, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member all too soon
Classes started up again today. Soon, we’ll be gloriously stressed, and clocked-up on whatever. Our hearts will swell to the pre-med symphony - a frantic...

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Categories: deserters, humor, school, student, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Easter Speaks
There is no greater love than this,
than that a man would lay down his life
for his friends. Jesus called me friend
long before I ever heard...

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Categories: deserters, easter,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Damage Done
What becomes of all the ones by careless hands betrayed,
Those left alone all on their own deserted and afraid,
To face the ire of future dire...

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Categories: deserters, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Were I Forced To Do So This Is the Way I Would Do It
I’d sit and say “son, it’s just you and me now kid
So if you enlist do you know what you will be warring for
HITLER tried...

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Categories: deserters, angstme, war, me, men,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things