Get Your Premium Membership

Best Patrol Poems

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


Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

Read more of this work...
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patrol, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lockdown
Solitary sun in sapphire skies,
beams its rays upon Earth's radiance.
A tepid breeze flows between
daffodils and bluebells, gently rocking.

Spring is in the air,
yet streets remain silent.
Masked...

Read more of this work...
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patrol, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
Torn and Tattered Wings
Torn and Tattered Wings

It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize 
Hard into your heart

I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, inspirational, loveworld,
Form: Free verse



Pray That Soon Will Come Better Days
PRAY THAT SOON WILL COME BETTER DAYS

Soldiers on patrol- 
drones on radio control…
They gain ground…as walls come crumbling down

Fire streaks through the night- 
embers burn...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, drug, hope, meaningful, peace,
Form: Lyric
Tex
how are you going to enjoy christmas in texas
is it gonna snow? no
what's Santa gonna look like tracking 
accross that hot sand in his furry...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, childhood
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Butterfly
 
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."

                  ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, butterfly, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
One of Texas's Best
“Back in my day” his stories all would start
I’d  lean in close to listen though I knew ‘em all by heart
He was a living...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, cowboy-western, history, nostalgia, people,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Suicide
She silently prays as she reaches for the chord

Wonder why the Iman didn't do this

I wanted paradise here and the quiet is deafening

Tick tock tick...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, angst, religion, allah,
Form: Free verse
Lone Survivor
Lone survivor
July 3, 2015
~+~
I sit alone in my basement all hunkered down
My faithful dog with me
Because tonight is the night of firecrackers 
And firework, yep...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mystery of Men
My car is equipped with maps and a GPS
With a great fear of getting lost I am obsessed
 
Men seem to have a different navigation...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, funny
Form: Couplet
I'M Coming Home
As I wave goodbye and walk away the kisses and cuddles from my loved ones still fresh in my mind I set my sights on...

Read more of this work...
© Tom Murray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patrol, emotions, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ahoy There - Out of My Way
'Twas a dark and stormy night on that dark and stormy night!
HMS Blunderbuss plied the billowing seas just off the Isle of Wight!
Able Seaman Steer...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, dark, funny, light,
Form: Rhyme
Lemon Drops and Butterscotch
When I grow old
My body not yet cold
But the brown of my eyes
Turns to gray

I will wear a large hat
When I patrol through
My garden and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: patrol, funnylove, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things