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Best Objector Poems

Below are the all-time best Objector poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of objector poems written by PoetrySoup members


Conscientious Objector
Born a hellraiser, and lived that way
For the better part of his days
Til riding back home, one stormy night
Struck by lightning, he kneels and he...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: objector, people
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Conscientious Objector
Oh my god, what have we done 
Just gone and killed, your only son
Even worse, tortured him to death 
Jeering whilst he gasped for breath...

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Categories: objector, allegory, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Soldier Named Desmond Doss
Help me save just one
They are so many
I have reason for no gun
I refuse the use of any
Use me to carry him
On my back to...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: objector, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale By A Wishing Well 
  (In The Wastelands Of War)

Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry...

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Categories: objector, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death of the Dream
Where do dreams go if they die?
You can't put em in your pocket
You can't plant em in the sky.
And if you hide em in your...

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Categories: objector, character, christian, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Last Call
As a child and a teenager I used to attend a mission-hall, 
Which had an outreach to the homeless of Edinburgh; 
And every three weeks...

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Categories: objector, child, gospel, jesus, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Weird Ways and Good Old Days
Weird Ways and Good Old Days

If feature was made into a modern day
About past, wonder what it would say
Things have been done in weird ways
And...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: objector, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Voting With Our Feet
It seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace

And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small...

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Categories: objector, community, destiny, earth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Hero Worship
I want to respond
to the retired Marine
who watched Democratic Congressional Leaders
during the State of our crippled Union event,
disappointed at how their patriotism,
their loyalty to sacred...

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Categories: objector, god, innocence, integrity, military,
Form: Political Verse
Nimby
NIMBY

I have a penchant for nature
				Sacrosanct
As I mature it grows
			Paramount

A proclivity toward the conception of the attributes of my affection

Life, animation, progenitor, the essence of...

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Categories: objector, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 18
Villanelle : The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 18

World in which is ingrained innate violence
Where nation-States all hell-bent on blitz wars
He who abstains from doing...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: objector, freedom, political, violence, war,
Form: Villanelle
Military Mind
Military Mind 
Military Mind 
 
 
Sexless uniformed surfaces not needing a life inside. Worthless devils fighting 
all the time and hurting all others against...

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Categories: objector, natural disasters, parody, people,
Form: Free verse
I Feel a Whole Lot Better Inside
Kitty was sitting on my old computer monitor,
Where it is warm, cozy and oh - so popular.
She keeps an eye for the birds on the...

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Categories: objector, animal, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Light Verse
I Care
Is anybody out there
Are you stuck in the cold
Are you reaching for air
Don't you dare fold

Do you need somebody for you
Can you breathe 
I am...

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Categories: objector, caregiving, dedication, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Pander Pander and Plunder the Bin
“Now listen to Nanny, while the nurse gives you a shot.
I’ll tie your hands fast, so you can’t throw a swing.
Potion injected will tend to...

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Categories: objector, political,
Form: Rhyme

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