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Best Insurgency Poems

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Premium Member Remembering Rwanda
Before the blast in April's darkened sky. . .  
before the electrifying surge of insurgency -
when trucks and tanks were used to block the...

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Categories: insurgency, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cold War Clientele - Benguet Province, August, 1978
My thumbs pressed on the trigger.
The M-2 bucked its load.
I squinted down the barrel
And watched his head explode.
An early morning ambush,
A steaming Luzon hell,
For Ferdi...

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Categories: insurgency, dark, war,
Form: Lyric
Pride In the American Troop
They held the field, men side by side,
Their will intact, their fears subside.
They mustered in so many fields,
And held the ground, refused to yield.
At Lexington...

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Categories: insurgency, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Words of Young Generation - a Message To Nigerian Youth
Please be informed: 

The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state...

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Categories: insurgency, 5th grade,
Form: ABC
Apostasy of a Prophet
This Casuistry is a paradox
Fallacious    feelings           repress
A Sophistry you ingress  ...

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Categories: insurgency, angst, grave, mystery, social,
Form: Shape



Rebellion
Wake up,
there'a a rebellion going on
There's a revolt,
and the conspiracy is strong
Two hundred and fifty princes
against Moses the man of God
They all got their swords...

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Categories: insurgency, bible, god, religion, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Amazing World
The healthy man fights not to be sick,
Meticulous doctor prays to have enough patients,
patients hope not to end up in the morgue,
morgue keeper needs more...

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Categories: insurgency, life, people, prayer,
Form: Free verse
A Packet of Lies
A PACKET OF LIES

I will build houses on the oceans
And you shall have no cause to
Cry again like those without shelter;
I will build an Estate...

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Categories: insurgency, africa, art, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
Heart of Darkness In the Valley of Light
Don’t hold on,
To the feeling that I will stay.
Cos’ I’ll be long gone tomorrow,
With the arrival of the first sun ray.

I don’t desire to leave,
But...

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Categories: insurgency, dark, death, deep, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Fascist State
FASCIST STATE 

They did not come upon us like blitzkrieg in the night 
or goose step into town like a plague of parasites. 
They crept...

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Categories: insurgency, political, , cute,
Form: Couplet
Still Waters Write Deep
I There’s only a few things I take seriously 
One of them is writing furiously 
Cleverly spinning verses 
Inked in cursive 
Certainly no stranger to...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insurgency, conflict, deep, future,
Form: Free verse
Pregnant Starlight
In my radio psychology grows
A loopy Admiral constant
Heaving between seas porous
With blue tongued underwater arches
Roman cathedrals with baboon guardtowers
Cerebrally undergoing city territory
The way cliffhanging apes...

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Categories: insurgency, art, computer-internet, family, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rite of Passage
There was insurgency-
in white night.
Moon will stay to witness 

the murder
of a golden leaf.
What was the promise of a ripe
language ? The yellow thrust ?
Keeping...

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Categories: insurgency, art,
Form: ABC
Genesis
The Genesis touch fills me with delight, 
And there was no night that stars did not shine,
Before sin hides the glow from our sight,
Weak minds,...

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Categories: insurgency, allegory, beauty, conflict, gospel,
Form: Free verse
The Wretched of the Earth (For the Katrina Hurricane Victims)
Like a spell with no remedy
The strong movement of the wind 
Accosted by volcanic ceaseless water 
Stuck and struck endlessly
It held grip to all that...

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Categories: insurgency, natural disasters, native american,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things