Best Last Stand Poems
Below are the all-time best Last Stand poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of last stand poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Last StandAn ancient twilight tree now stands alone
with weakened cries of olden creak and groan;
winter’s rattling winds do rise and shake it -
in stark silhouette...
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Categories:
last stand, age, death, fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last StandOne night I had a dream. I heard a blood curdling scream.
It was death approaching me....
Thirty-two years I've escaped...
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Categories:
last stand, death, fantasydeath, body, death,
Form:
Free verse
My Last StandI climbed the mountains, I've trodden the plains
I walked in the scorching sun and also the rains
I reached far ends and may be crossed the...
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Categories:
last stand, beauty, passion,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Last StandWho was it that has sent you here this day?
Timed with chance by a wronged man's suspicions.
An accurate surprise shot you this way.
It was...
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Categories:
last stand, angel, bible, christian, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last StandTHE LAST STAND
Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, and the Sue,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket,
Chocking for a breath of airs life's...
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Categories:
last stand, dark, death, grief, history,
Form:
Free verse
Illegal ImmigrantsThis poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand.
It was...
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Categories:
last stand, history, immigration,
Form:
Blank verse
The Bridge To Nowhere
The Bridge to Nowhere
Halfway across the river it stands as heavy feet support remaining span.
No longer the beautiful and sturdy gateway path for man to...
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Categories:
last stand, old, travel, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Don'T Tread On MeThere are many thoughts and opinions about our elections in the U.S.
Someone even called it a disgrace; you’re entitled to your opinion, I guess.
Some claim...
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Categories:
last stand, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Vanilla Killer - trigger warningAnother shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...
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Categories:
last stand, child abuse, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Second Horseman : 2 of 4An invisible power,
brings forth a new rider.
The second of four,
rendering an eminent fire.
War and destruction,
he's dispatched to deliver.
Countless souls will perish,
their blood flowing like rivers.
His...
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Categories:
last stand, christian, education, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Apocalypse
It's the apocalypse of the antipoetic,
some are apoplectic, instead of apologetic,
this is no diplomatic 'dead poet's society',
but the anxiety results in notoriety,
increasing dubiety for word...
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Categories:
last stand, analogy, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A call to EarthIn shopping centres, bright and wide,
Where our dreams can fly and glide,
We wrap our hearts in things we've bought,
Forgetting stars, by city lights caught.
Yet, whispers...
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Categories:
last stand, beauty, dark, earth day,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
last stand, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
TreeAs I wait for death amid the calm.
I see through the window all of you.
No one can see me and the hearing is dying.
Ring in...
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Categories:
last stand, allegory, funny, happiness, me,
Form:
Narrative
Wounded KneeHistorically accurate, narrative poem
29 December, 1890 - At Wounded Knee Creek
A baby cries for its mother slain
and a way of life dies on that frozen...
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Categories:
last stand, native american, war,
Form:
Narrative