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Best Incident Poems

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Premium Member Incident At Soup Creek
In the saloon gambler Milton, rose from his leather chair to speak
And said we need to make changes for the good of Soup Creek
He read...

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Categories: incident, america, conflict, grave, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Incident On I-59
Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old jalopy van

Suddenly blue...

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Categories: incident, car, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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Categories: incident, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Manchester Attack
Yet another incident has happened today
When will these terrorists go away
Manchester this time at a concert
Some taken to early some really hurt

Thier war now affecting...

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Categories: incident, child, conflict, together, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inhuman Malice

A father of six he was in his early forties,
struck by cancer
toiling to provide for his children
with
no property
no land
no animals, but a loyal old donkey
that...

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Categories: incident, evil, world,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Thoughts Race
The heavy fog slowly lifts in places
Open patches of spring delight and resounds
The look-out crow caws, joyous news abounds
As rooster's crows lands in hollow spaces
The...

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Categories: incident, anxiety,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Jesus Sends His Angels True Story
You won't see this true story in the Main Media. Not long ago an incident took place in Nashville Tennessee. There was a school shooting...

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Categories: incident, angel, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reunion
They came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very...

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Categories: incident, allusion, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member War Games
As it unfolds, labeled cold, a wall confines the innocent
It looms of iron, bricks, where stones
are thrown and rifles aimed 
to claim the hopes of...

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Categories: incident, conflict, history, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Girl Becomes a Young Woman - For Adult Contest
A girl around 13, sitting at a kitchen table of the home where she baby sits,
is waiting for the woman of the house to finish...

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Categories: incident, age, woman,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Kids Have Ears the Size of An Elephant and a Mouth To Match
I read Darryl Ashton’s poem Called Pinocchio Rex and this brought back 
memories of a childhood incident

When I grew up we had a smallholding –...

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Categories: incident, childhood, humorous, innocence, mum,
Form: Narrative
No Food Rule
On weekends I work as a guard, protecting swimmers at a pool,
and sometimes I have to be hard, when someone starts acting the fool.
Sometimes my...

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Categories: incident, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Prophet Mohammed and Holy Quran Miracle
Every prophet comes with miracles...someone asks what were the miracles of prophet Mohammed(May peace be upon him), now I will be mentioning some of them...

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Categories: incident, dedication, faith, peace, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The Memories of a Dancing Peacock
The Memories of a Dancing Peacock 
( Based on a true incident captured in my Camera )



I was in a mood to sing, and

The Peacock...

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Categories: incident, inspirational, music, nature, song,
Form: Ode
You Don'T Love Me
ever somewhere in my soul
 it burns
the lashes of the whip
 that forces me to learn
that i had touched
 the thorn of your rose
the puncture...

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Categories: incident, depression,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs