Best Friendly Fire Poems

The campfire reaches
Lighting the night
Rolling the logs
Red embers take flight
Sharing our memories
Eating nuts for snacks
Spitting shells in the fire
The fire spitting them back
We laugh at...

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“Friendly Fire” 

I was writing 
when death came
like the sound of 
clouds cracking open 
the sound like all 4 
horses, hooves kicking
in windows, stenographically
speaking like...

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I took my arm i wore my shield
Got Sown in the unknown field
In the name of peace we stand
Playing a role we do not understand
Anthems...

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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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The rain fell gently through the night
It tapped upon my window pane
Like friends from days of long ago
Who called for me to come and play
I...

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we sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed

his voice...

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The paper sits in front of me… what do I say
I’m leaving this world, can’t see another day
Do I start with thanks
Do I end with...

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We're all fighting the war internally & it manifests
before our eyes
This spiritual battle is apocalyptic, the one that so
many prophesized 
We live in a time...

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Offended is an expensive Vintage
blended 
lacking precision 
I recommend a less sulfuric fermentation


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grapes of wrath
so much to offer
each glass
examine
swirl
smell
breathe and savor 
see legs of the...

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I won 1st place in the school oratorical contest
I got to say my poem in front of the whole school and they gave me a...

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I like the word "beastie," it sounds cute, it sounds Scottish.   I'm thinking like 'Scotty' on 'Star Trek' would say, the immortal James...

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A scream stretches out into the night
A desperate call heard but with guilt ignored
An echoing beacon of another battle commence
As neighbours run to their bunkers...

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Freedom fighter Fickle Freddie's
forced to freefall on foe's field.
Freddie flirts with foe's fetching filly.
Fickle fighter falls to "friendly fire."


*Entry for Gwendolen’s Big Kid Tongue Twister”contest

(My...

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My baseball cap is my helmet and my Nike's are my boots, 
My country is my hood and my colors on my flag are niether...

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Feather's float
Like recognition 
From friendly fire
Overlooking others accomplished 
Because the spotlight was so all consuming 
It forgot where it was born of
Or what it meant
The...

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