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Best Evacuation Poems

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Evacuation and Loss
The night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant...

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Categories: evacuation, bereavement, child, depression, family,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member At Dunkirk
At
Dunkirk,
where thousands
of stranded men
lined a bloody beach,
hope was draining with each
air strike delivered by the
unrelenting Germans’ aircraft.
Cold, starved, and injured men watched from shore -
their...

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Categories: evacuation, courage, world war ii,
Form: Etheree
Eat Pray Love
On the edge 
of the evacuation zone
Miyuki holds her daughter 
tip-toeing in pink sneakers 
her small hands fragile 
blossoms opening
to the man with the beeping...

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© Soulfire  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evacuation, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Losing It In Isolation
I’m losing it; you know I am

When I ask myself questions, then answer them out loud
     And consider this a “conversation”

When...

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Categories: evacuation, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ides of March
*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evacuation, celebration, character, conflict, fate,
Form: Sijo



Premium Member I Am Scared
Warnings are given
School schedules on hold
Evacuation notice
Echoes of years ago
Rushing to Jounieh port
Under cover of night
The harbor being shelled
“NO lights
NO lights!!!!
Not even a cigarette
Get on...

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Categories: evacuation, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless Feelings of Matthew
Helpless Feelings of Matthew

Above the black clouds of Matthew,
Angels are singing heavenly melodies,
It is golden there, and winds do not dare
To disturb such tranquility.

They are...

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Categories: evacuation, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Terrorist Breakfast
British people asked for 30 minutes to eat their breakfast before being evacuated from Terrorist Threat.

When in Britain I like to sit down
To a full...

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Categories: evacuation, violence,
Form: Ballad
Chernobyl
Chernobyl.


A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evacuation, cry, death, sun, world,
Form: I do not know?
Barry Cowsill Leaving
A friend , a poet , a music Man , The Cowsills 
      remembering the song "hair" on the radio...

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Categories: evacuation, beauty, celebrity, death, death
Form: Free verse
The Fitness
Jumping the jam,

I am peter pan,

doing a man,

don't know his name at this dam.


Down-stream is a clam,

up is a nap-

I creak when I walk,

never stop...

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Categories: evacuation, angst, depression, drug, grief,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Angry Earth
The power we now witness is only the start
An angry earth she is, her tectonic plates in depart
Seconds later they again meet with abrasive force
The...

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Categories: evacuation, loss, natural disasters, sadcare,
Form: Quatrain
A Thank You To the Nurse
A rhyming thank you written in verse
To the wonderful women and men who work as a nurse
They do so much more than just first aid
Considering...

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Categories: evacuation, health, sister, social, work,
Form: Rhyme
Palermo, Sicily, 1943
for George
"You always said you had little invisible friends,"
He wrote in a Christmas card one year, and Yes,
funny he would remember that.  I called...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evacuation, family,
Form: Free verse
The Pleasure of Old Age
The pleasure of old age 
This is good morning only been up twice in the night and not 
Stumbled over furniture, his wife kept filling...

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Categories: evacuation, age, birth, culture, environment,
Form: Diamante

Book: Shattered Sighs