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Best Discharged Poems

Below are the all-time best Discharged poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of discharged poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: discharged, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: discharged, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Olena and Pavlo
Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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Categories: discharged, death, love, soldier, violence,
Form: Narrative
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: discharged, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
Eileen
Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and...

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Categories: discharged, for her, mom, ,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Lowest of the Low
You may see me out on the streets
Lying curled up in a foetal position my sleeping bag in a shop doorway
Trying to get a few...

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Categories: discharged, career, drug, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Think Me Silly- a Rant
You think me silly and verbose
When love is on my mind…
Fickle fickle full of fluff
Love sick, crazy, blind

Deviant...defiant 
Sexually overcharged
Big picture oblivious
And from your life...

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Categories: discharged, identity, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The River
I finished work at noon on Friday and headed home to pack
Put my gear in the trunk and put my canoe on the roof rack
Headed...

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Categories: discharged, adventure, america, death, river,
Form: Narrative
Society's Invisible People
She sat on the pavement as the world walked by 
She's just another  vagrant not a mum  a daughter or wife
Claiming state benefits...

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Categories: discharged, mother, society, drug,
Form: Free verse
Wilderness Is a Crowded Street
Wilderness is a crowded street.

Silence stings the ears of the hearer,
Cacophony of sound, unheard.
Loneliness turns to solitude,
Converse without a word.

Wilderness is a crowded street.
A passer-by...

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Categories: discharged, business, career, city, class,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Felicity On the Brink of Death
Our Felicity knows no rest and was
Often admonished by her Head Nurse.
It happened one day she was out for an errand
When a small boy was...

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Categories: discharged, endurance, grief, heartbreak, recovery
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom
This is all done for Love of Another

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full...

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Categories: discharged, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maze
she had lost the plot long before in an insane labyrinth of her mind

trapped in the rat race of high speed and the volume on...

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Categories: discharged, 5th grade, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Humility Is the Brightest Love
Love, I get love is more than a game the young play,
It is life one commits, not caged bird ‘shopped’ to mine
In the hope lives...

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Categories: discharged, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member beauty and the beast :GRAPHIC:
mirrors are flawless til observed ~ yet beauty dwells in a broken shard 

yelled the beast stabbing it into his eyes ~ i’m beyond horribly...

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Categories: discharged, dark, deep, perspective,
Form: Monoku

Book: Shattered Sighs