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Best Napalm Poems

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Categories: napalm, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: napalm, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Autumn On Fire
God’s inspirational napalm set ablaze upon the trees of autumn,
Welcome to the ascension of the fall season, bursting forth onto
The leaves once evergreen.
Colors of crisp...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: napalm, autumn, beauty, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Average Age 19
Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for

Families are...

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Categories: napalm, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Quatrain
One Veteran's Day
firkins and gherkins and whistles and shoes
cluster bombs, punji stakes, death in the news
choppers chattering
napalm splattering
a carpet bombed mind with asian war blues

cracked vinyl records...

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Categories: napalm, veterans day,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are...

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Categories: napalm, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Zinc Adulating

Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...

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Categories: napalm, metaphor, parody, slam, word
Form: ABC
Premium Member No More
I remember that Sunday night 
When I got the call from my Mom
She called to let us know
My brother was wounded in Vietnam
I went to...

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Categories: napalm, memory, war,
Form: Bio
Viet Nam
He dreams day dreams of horror.
He could be anywhere,
But in his mind he’s instantly
Back inside that village there.
He hears those jungle sounds
Again and again and...

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Categories: napalm, angst, anxiety, death, military,
Form: Rhyme
' Volcano (Or the Perils of Passion) '
‘ Volcano’ ( or The Perils of  Passion )

Volcano … You Inferno ! … You, Latent Threat
… I am not Ready, for Your Rise...

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Categories: napalm, allegory, fantasy, life, love,
Form: Light Verse
Purple Heart
Morning glowed, Phillip.
A purple fire burned beacon bright
against the stinging stench of napalm.

A thick thistle - two feet from your head,
wordless in speech, watched 
with...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: napalm, life, loss, warprayer,
Form: Free verse
What I Feel For You Is So Damn Strong
erect with naughty thoughts

licking your beauty marks
like playing connect the dots

squishy sensitive pink parts
wet x-rated lust marks the spot

come off as cool collective and calm
but...

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Categories: napalm, art, desire, love, lust,
Form: Light Verse
Bear Creek '98
_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts...

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Categories: napalm, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Vietnam Quatrain
Within my breast I carry ancient death; 
Its face is pale and white as marbled clay. 
Consumed with guilt, I struggle for each breath 
Still...

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Categories: napalm, war,
Form: Quatrain
It Begins With a Haunting
a ghost haunts the country of Laos
sieving through jungles
crackling twigs because
it has not yet died
beware of it
the one who drags one foot
while the other rots...

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Categories: napalm, death, history, horror, humanity,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs