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Best Half Mast Poems

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Half Mast
Can one count the pieces of a broken heart? 
Can a flag half staff proudly wave?
Will kites still rise in staccato weather,
or partial freedom be...

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Categories: half mast, conflict, emotions, hope, math,
Form: Rhyme



Half Mast
A calling that must be obeyed--
bloodied and broken he lies,
the battlefield he makes his home,
fallen like a gladiator of Rome,
hearing his brother’s last cries--
with a...

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Categories: half mast,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Moon In Pale Depression
Muted evidence proclaimed the subtle oddities of night
   Lunar time should have reached the zenith of its height

No chirping crickets were heard, nor...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: half mast, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in...

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Categories: half mast, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Veteran's Day - 2015
Veteran’s Day - 2015


This day
	all flags
shed
	bloodied shadows
upon
	sacred soil
dotted
	with stilled crosses.

This day
parades
	weary soldiers

smile
	at the few who line the streets

march
	to familiar cadence

salute
	flag’s half mast history

weep
	as Taps resounds

across
	each...

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Categories: half mast, appreciation, soldier, veterans day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Obiturary of the United States
Lower the flags to half mast,
America the Beautiful has been gutted,
Its word emptied of all meaning,
There is no jubilant throng singing,
“Glory, glory Hallelujah!”
Our nation’s heroes...

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Categories: half mast, eulogy, obituary, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Good Guys Finish Last
Ladies you say, all the good guys have been taken
I am here to say, you're completely mistaken
A sensitive guy, let me introduce him
He is down...

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Categories: half mast, cute love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Average Age 19
Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for

Families are...

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Categories: half mast, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Quatrain
Rap Like Rabbit Battle Rap
Rap like Rabbit battle Rap

21/05/2018

Livin by the beach and baby life’s good
Not stuck in a rut or in a crummy hood
I’m writing tight rhymes like...

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Categories: half mast, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am, Error
Love should only ever kindle the present and the future. Not the past…

Primarily, I am second.

For I have placed others on similar platforms
Made of charred...

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Categories: half mast, friend, friendship, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Grandma
The world did wear you down and on you passed.
Nightmares of young did press your eyes to close,
But God has gathered you and him at...

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© Aaron Crow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: half mast, funeral, lifegod, world, allah,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Boomerang Heart
Bent love never dies it just keeps bending. 
Until it morphs into a burning boomerang. 
That smacks you in the chambers of your half-mast heart.

I...

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Categories: half mast, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Glory
Have you ever stood still in silence, to watch her cadence and graceful glide,
there is an undeniable beauty, she’s exquisite from side to side.	
Like a...

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Categories: half mast, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
The Blind Who Dreamt Colors
I dreamt of the day that I could see colors.
To grasp the sublimity of color schemes, 
To teleport into the colors of dreams
Oh, how colorful...

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Categories: half mast, courage, humanity, life, patriotic,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sandy Hook Elementary Imposter, Fake Father Robbie Parker
* A tale of a charlatan, caught pretending to be a father of a Newton Massacre 
Victim----(feel free to view his hyperbole on Youtube, search...

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Categories: half mast, anger, bereavement, father, grief,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things