Best Khaki Poems
We Will All Wear Khaki PantsWe are all going to wear khaki pants to the parade.
What’s khaki? I ask, knowing, but wanting to see his reaction.
He is new, and I love to toy with the new guy.
“You know,” he says, “Um, tan, plain, dull, plain, tan.”
“I don’t have any pants...
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Categories:
khaki, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Khaki Clothes and Army BootsKhaki Clothes ad Army Boots May 1, 2016
Khaki clothes and army boots kill the people on our street
The enemy came, they found out soon, Irish freedom no defeat
Go home to England, leave...
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Categories:
khaki, conflict,
Form:
Lyric
Khaki PantsKhaki pants fell down a well somewhere
We don't know where
We are not mapologists
It was deep, dry and empty but no longer
As stated, the pants are at the bottom now
Khaki pants had an occupant in them at the time
Obeying the laws of physics
One person at a...
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Categories:
khaki, change, clothes, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Khaki Has Never Other Fabrics LikedKhaki has never other fabrics liked:
It has even their wearer’s bodies disliked,
Their forgivable flaws, their blunders hyped
And their names and their nicknames mistyped!
Sometimes you hear, “Like onions slice them!”
And begun a solving of what wasn’t a problem;
Bound to uncannily unfold
What Plain Malice does hold...
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Categories:
khaki, bullying, military, people, violence,
Form:
Rhyme