Best Half Mast Poems
Below are the all-time best Half Mast poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of half mast poems written by PoetrySoup members
Half MastCan 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 MastA 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?
Moon In Pale DepressionMuted 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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Categories:
half mast, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
8 Little EgyptsSomething 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
Veteran's Day - 2015Veteran’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
The Obiturary of the United StatesLower 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
Good Guys Finish LastLadies 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
Average Age 19Once 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 RapRap 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
I Am, ErrorLove 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
GrandmaThe 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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Categories:
half mast, funeral, lifegod, world, allah,
Form:
Villanelle
Boomerang HeartBent 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
Old GloryHave 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 ColorsI 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