Best Officer Poems
Below are the all-time best Officer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of officer poems written by PoetrySoup members
As Father Is To His DaughterPassing through framed windows like ours,
I recall your tales of reckless war and lost friends
that burned your innocence at 21... and though
you claimed flashes of...
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Categories:
officer, father, introspection, words,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T BreatheIn memory of----
Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...
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Categories:
officer, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Please~PLEASE~
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song!
Don't worry mommy,...
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Categories:
officer, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
And I Am GratefulA field of wheat cloaked in dewy silence
the orchestra tunes up with avian arias
bullfrog basses and a choir of cawing crows,
xanthic sunflowers turning their heads...
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Categories:
officer, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T BreatheIn memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.
Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone...
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Categories:
officer, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Tears of a HeroTears of a hero
Tears of a hero, they say I supposed to be a tough guy..So I can’t let the tears show.
But with these feelings...
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Categories:
officer, emotions, inspirational, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Pun With EggsBenedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.
The kid came...
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Categories:
officer, fun, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Train To AuschwitzIn nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...
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Categories:
officer, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form:
Narrative
Letters From Afghanistan (Cowritten By James Fraser)Dear Carolyn:
Another letter from another tour
In this place in the sand they call Helmand
This will be my last, for you can be sure
To never look...
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Categories:
officer, life, loss, warjoy,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflecting On Police BrutalityIt was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion
through southern Spain, across...
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Categories:
officer, violence, prejudice,
Form:
Prose
Poetry Police # 2Many (con)-ARTIST are drinking more than the soup
A kidnapping of the mind
Confessions/conspiracy/rounded up in groups
Interrogation on a prowler /who's words robbed us blind
Corrupting our...
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Categories:
officer, dedicationwords, me, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
officer, car, fear, love, mother,
Form:
I do not know?
The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes DriftIn eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory
At Isandlwana the Zulu army...
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Categories:
officer, africa, england, river, soldier,
Form:
Narrative
Lili MarleneLili Marlene
In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...
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Categories:
officer, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form:
Verse
Daddy Loved UsSeeing my Daddy in black and white moves my emotional colors
into a vibrant rainbow that was Daddy made decades ago.
Only twenty-seven in the photo, Dad's...
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Categories:
officer, blessing, brother, caregiving, family,
Form:
Narrative