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Best Line In The Sand Poems

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Premium Member Line In the Sand
Obama drew his mighty line in the sand
Dare ye not to cross me

Assad replied in kind
Gassing thousands and laughing

A little Syrian boy has drowned
Siblings to...

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Categories: line in the sand, anger, angst, dark, death,
Form: Light Verse



A Line In the Sand
There is simply a line drawn in the sand
Tracing a route from the sea to the land
Sometimes it swirls around and around
Telling it's story without...

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Categories: line in the sand, family, happiness, holiday, sadbeach,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: line in the sand, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The 'Undred An' Fifth
The 'Undred an' Fifth is the greatest o' Britain,
They charge like the Royal Marines;
They'll shatter the shock, and they'll 'old like a rock,
On nothin' but...

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Categories: line in the sand, adventure, courage, war, march,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trump Shields the Us From Becoming a Carcass Filled With Ants
Trump Shields The US From Becoming A Carcass Full With Ants 

Trumps draws a line in the sand
He's shaken all the trees in the land
Call...

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Categories: line in the sand, perspective, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It's On
Don’t be good just to be good, 
Because it makes you seem right,
Do good because you’re better than bad, 
Because you’re up for the fight,

And...

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Categories: line in the sand, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Preoccupied With the Faults of Others: Stay In Your Lane
Some people come to church just to be seen
No Holy nor any Ghost in them can be gleaned

Now Jesus was in the temple 
Teaching a...

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Categories: line in the sand, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Nemesis
You could give a look to slay
those that choose to disobey.
You could choose sticks and stones
and warn your enemy with crossbones.
You could trick, trip and...

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Categories: line in the sand, writing,
Form: Rhyme
When We Drew Lines
The line in the sand which we drew in my bed, do you recall how we drew them, the things that we said?  Was...

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Categories: line in the sand, abuse, analogy, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'Ve a Simple Solution At Hand
Back in 2013 the President 'resetting,' drew a line in the sand
  Syria sprinted across it; faced no response from our end

So, Bashir Assad...

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Categories: line in the sand, america, death, future, life,
Form: Political Verse
Your Past Should
Your past should be a reminder,
Of how far you have come.
Your past should be the key to the present,
Not to a ball and chain.

Your past...

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Categories: line in the sand, appreciation, beauty, birthday, blessing,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member The Numbers Had a Breakast
The numbers had a breakfast.
The numbers had a tea.
The numbers drew a line in the sand.
And none invited me.
I discovered later that it was a...

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Categories: line in the sand, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Fisherman
Written January 17, 2011


Sit down in an empty room
No one makes a sound
Unless I ring the alarm and sound all the sirens
The angel of darkness...

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Categories: line in the sand, dark, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Human Rights
Human Rights June 27,2015

Human rights for you and me
 Palestinian children living free
 People free without a tear
 Children playing without fear
 Irish children white,...

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Categories: line in the sand, international,
Form: Lyric
Lines
LINES

We LINE up in traffic, or clear out the door, 
And there are BEELINES we make, to the seashore.
Get mad and we're "DRAWING A LINE...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: line in the sand, allusion, angst, humor, spoken
Form: List

Book: Reflection on the Important Things