Best Deserters Poems
Below are the all-time best Deserters poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of deserters poems written by PoetrySoup members
DesertersI 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
Lady FingersWe 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 PrudenciaDedicated 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 FrownsMona-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 4cont'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
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
Forgotten Democracy In the Reign of FoolsWhen 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 Dupesdiscontented Divine deserters
dastardly demons
damnation deserved
devil’s dumb dupes...
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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 TrueOur 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
all too soonClasses 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
Easter SpeaksThere 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 DoneWhat 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 ItI’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