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Best Frontline Poems

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


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Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees

Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities

Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios

Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires

Echo endophfins eulogize bullet...

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Categories: frontline, analogy, beautiful, body, corruption,
Form: ABC



Storm-Bearers
Being a frontline health careworker
has us all consumed with fear
A nursing home filled with the elderly could 
become a catastrophic atmosphere

If the Coronavirus enters their...

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Categories: frontline, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
A Flower of Peace
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The last breath expelled from my lungs called your name
as I fall to the ground on this dark battlefield
Weary and worn from the conflict so...

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Categories: frontline, flower, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Shock and Awe
the war was well 

on its way
mottled and coddled
 battled  and  bottled
before the

          ...

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Categories: frontline, peace, political, war, war,
Form: Free verse
A Drawer of Memories
Medals in a cupboard drawer
Testament of what went before
With his enemy held no score
Boy's turned men, played at war

In blooded field or muddy trench
Gaunt eye's...

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Categories: frontline, warmen,
Form: Rhyme



Old Soldiers Never Die
Old Soldiers Never Die 
A neighbour of mine used to be a sergeant in the army,
In his living room he had a big picture of...

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Categories: frontline, absence, age, bereavement, best
Form: Sonnet
Lines
LINES

We LINE up in traffic, or clear out the door, 
And there are BEELINES we make, to the seashore.
Get mad and we're "DRAWING A LINE...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frontline, allusion, angst, humor, spoken
Form: List
Mean Joe and the Curtain
Mean Joe Greene number seventy-five
kept the Pittsburgh Steelers alive

was a solid wall on that frontline
and sacking the quarterback was fine

the Steel Curtain was solid back...

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Categories: frontline, football,
Form: Couplet
Allow Me To Shine
I have been a man since before I was a child
Having moments so harsh sending me into the wild
As a boy 14 I learned the...

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© Sean Trott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frontline, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Library
The Library was a quiet place
I’d go there twice a week
To find solitude and my own space
Where nobody would speak.

Books upon books adorned the shelves
Some...

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© David Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frontline, books,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Here To Lend Your Cry
Salam, how are you there?
Wassalam, good, Alhamdulillah
How about the issue in Sabah
Nothing to worry
I am worried because you are my friend
I am okay; just want...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frontline, adventure, art, courage, daughter,
Form: Narrative
Let Us
Let us slide down memory road,
Carnal our ride through the potholes
That relentlessly weaves our souls
Let us curb the unforgiving winds
Of timorous ambiguity
And rid our minds...

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Categories: frontline, africa, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member American Dreams
For God and country, swaying toe to line.
Like whispers lost upon a mighty wind.
A cadence echoes; “soldiers ‘til the end.”
Why bestow our youth upon the...

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Categories: frontline, patriotic,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Keep Your Mind Right
World wide they're wranglin' up my folks,
So I stay woke 'cause it's no joke,
We came from slavery & hangings by rope,
To wantin' dollars in bulk,

Tryin'...

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Categories: frontline, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Mwalimu
i reminisce on the day you passed
our starlight dimmed and flickered 
some sang
morning came
days,weeks passed
and those that were on the frontline
forgot
songs didn't cease
but actions proved...

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Categories: frontline, political
Form: Free verse

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