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Best Encampment Poems

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


The Attack On Trenton
Men, I know this is Christmas Night.
However, remember we have a war to fight.
His Majesty’s forces have had us occupied.
Our freedom and well-being is something...

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Categories: encampment, adventure, history, holiday,
Form: Rhyme



Take Me Again
Take me again…


Take me… for I am nothing without you
Tease my desires with your fingers a’ wander
Upon quivering flesh, shivering needs cry
All of this is...

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Categories: encampment, good night, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Theme
So, what is the best theme for
a poem?  No guarded secret, all themes --  
Freely to Roam! And what, the prescribed 
destination or...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encampment, perspective, philosophy, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scottish Thistle
I am the
Scot's thistle
The emblem of my
proud country it has
been our valiant
pride for so
           ...

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Categories: encampment, history, inspirational, nature, people,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encampment, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative



Illegal Immigrants
This poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand.

It was...

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Categories: encampment, history, immigration,
Form: Blank verse
Poetry Years Speak
To young lives full of ripe promise, 
I give glowing, gold dream spheres
And the belief that hope is honest 
Because I am their sweet poetry...

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Categories: encampment, emotions, encouraging, growing up,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Boxes
We are wanderers 
who happened at the intersection of reality and dreams
seeking others to share comfort with
from life's drudgery of encampments and caves

Now everyone lives...

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Categories: encampment, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Holy Redeemer
July 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 46-50

Key Verse – Isaiah 47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his...

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Categories: encampment, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
What Makes a Home
My normal route diverted,
I walked north instead of south
And passed a man who looked like he
Existed hand to mouth.

He’d made a small encampment
Underneath a walking...

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Categories: encampment, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Heart Made Hatchet -2
Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly...

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Categories: encampment, america,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 11
Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges...

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Categories: encampment, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mountainside
MOUNTAINSIDE
                    
Always, there would be darkness...

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Categories: encampment, courage, fear, war,
Form: Verse
Bohemian Grove
The Bohemian Grove

There is a place in San Francisco called the Bohemian Grove. It’s a boy’s club you might say. But when is the last...

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Categories: encampment, christian, corruption, culture, hate,
Form: Prose
Premium Member One Last Tear
I was just four when I discovered that some grown-ups cry.
That’s because I saw my mommy dragging my daddy down the stairs,
Her eyes so full...

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Categories: encampment, cancer, cry, family, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things