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Best Encampment Poems


Premium Member 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 they have denied.
They are just acros......

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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 yours, deeply offered, r......

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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 direction? Wherever the poet, 
himself, deems worthy of fond or......

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encampment, perspective, philosophy, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

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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
                                  many years                                    
\\!!!!!//......

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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 an ice wall crunches, enfor......

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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 the year eighteen sixty-eight.
The U.S. governmen......

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Categories: encampment, history, immigration,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member 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 years.

                            ......

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Categories: encampment, emotions, encouraging, growing up,
Form: Personification
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 name, the Holy One of Israel.

LORD ......

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Categories: encampment, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
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 in a box with a do......

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Categories: encampment, irony,
Form: Free verse
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 bridge,
Though of course......

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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 keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless ......

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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 a few miles up river
most of the m......

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Categories: encampment, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mountainside
...MOUNTAINSIDE
                    
Always, there would be darkness hovering through-
out the bushes and trees, massive sky and earthen ground 
he tiptoed upon in shoeless stealth, machine gun slun......

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Categories: encampment, courage, fear, war,
Form: Verse
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 of tears that they fairly poured down her flimsy nightgo......

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Categories: encampment, cancer, cry, family, sad,
Form: Free 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 time you saw boys offer sacrifices to Lucifer and burn bodies ......

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Categories: encampment, christian, corruption, culture, hate,
Form: Prose

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry