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Best Kaki Poems

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Kaki
I still feel that short embrace
Him turning for one last glance
The look on our mother’s face
Her knowing his fate of chance

What is this cruel affair...

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Categories: kaki, war,
Form: Free verse



Kaki
The vendor advertised his wares
Eliciting assorted stares.
For just six bucks (a price quite wacky),
You could buy some pants – in kaki!

English likely’s not his tongue
And...

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Categories: kaki, words,
Form: Rhyme
Instead of War
INSTEAD OF WAR
HISTORY IS A MYSTERY TO HUMANITY,
SOME KNOWN WITH AN EVIDENCE,
SOME UNKWOWN WITHOUT A TRACE,
PEOPLE EAGER TO KNOW WHY LIFE IS WHAT IT IS...

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Categories: kaki, abuse, africa, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Epic
The Green Man
The Green Man

Blue cap
Green shirt
Kaki trousers
And black shoes
Underneath
I don’t know
Could be green
His fave

He hefts the cap
He smile exposing
The milky teeth
The snowish teeth and 
The coalish...

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Categories: kaki, funny, green,
Form: Free verse
Hellmand 2010
The air is thick with dust and flame, who started this? Who is to blame?
Shells and rockets rake the field yet neither side is like...

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© Roy May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kaki, warmen, men,
Form: I do not know?



Writing With a Blue Pen
Writing with a blue pen
Want to write
 but I don't know 
What words to use
In describing brutality
I bleed with a deep pain
From a seen of...

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Categories: kaki, abuse,
Form: I do not know?
Bloody Civilians
Bloody civilians
Yes we are the bloody civilians
The ones that pays with it blood 
I wonder what you see 
When you see us 
Is obvious we...

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Categories: kaki, abuse, africa, confidence, courage,
Form: Epic
Prisoner of War
Marching,
Foots strangling every strand of grass,
Arms breaking through the wind,
Hands changed into fists,
Eye sockets only fixed on a skull,
A barricade of unseen lines demarcates each...

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Categories: kaki, africa, war,
Form: Verse
Kill
"kill them before the end of this week," he said. 
She ignored his commandment. 
" put quicker killing poison  in their foods," 
He insisted.  
"Why?...

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Categories: kaki, emotions, encouraging, feelings, history,
Form: Free verse
Compromise Without Benefit
compromise without benefit
we have been toiled upon
suppressed by the system
brutalities by the authorities
tortured by the men on black kaki
our words dont count 
our opinion is...

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Categories: kaki, abuse, africa, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Epic
Praying
praying 
am still praying 
yes tell the dead infant 
I don't know why 
it has to be so 
am still on my knees
it hurt me...

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Categories: kaki, africa, confidence, courage, humanity,
Form: Epic
Another
another
another war is born 
again 
so another new infant
is about to die again
for another grief
to bleed to another 
innocent soul 

another rumours of war's
is out...

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Categories: kaki, africa, care, courage, deep,
Form: Epic
The Night That Never Die
The night that never die 
I wanted to write a love song 
But I remember the unforgettable night 
The dark long night of the youth
In...

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Categories: kaki, africa, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Epic
On the Road
“Collection Kaki and school bag, collection Kaki and school bag”
These are the words echoing from the woman hustling on the street side. Mindless people passing...

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Categories: kaki, appreciation, blessing, brother, business,
Form: Narrative
The Sun Sets On a Squalor of Daylight
Sunset in the backstreets.
Coal and brick dust catches
small glimmers and sparks.

A cobbled together backyard
grows yet shorter shadows
a boy in kaki cloth
plays with a beat-up
red plastic...

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Categories: kaki, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs