Best Raiding Poems
Building Tension...That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to death
I ......
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Categories:
raiding, angst, fear, lost, night,
Form:
Free verse
Your Kiss From Heaven...Your kiss from heaven caressed my cheek.
It made me feel safe, yet a little weak!
Confusing thoughts ran through my head.
Is this for real, or just misread?
With the Risen Son, they claim I’m new!......
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Categories:
raiding, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
To Weak To Cry...When I think of the plight that children face all over the world
I just want to cry
Hunger starts and ends their everyday
As many of us continue to waste away
The scraps that we toss could save a......
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Categories:
raiding, death, family, food, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Garden Pests...'Tis another glorious spring and I planted my garden with the expectation,
That I shall reap a bountiful harvest for my table with minimum frustration!
I planted the usual stuff - carrots, radish......
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Categories:
raiding, funny, spring, garden, spring,
Form:
Couplet
Six-Word Couplet Series Encore...Ghost Buster’s Eve
‘Tis the time
to shoot slime.
Adults Only Costume Party
Sex kittens prance.
Sultry nurses dance.
Party Food
Served eyeball soup
and goopity goop
......
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Categories:
raiding, halloween,
Form:
Couplet
Ireland - a Divided Island Part One...born under the sea, an irresistible force
two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia a......
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Categories:
raiding, community, history, ireland, time,
Form:
Narrative
Jesse Evans and the Boys and the Kid...Jesse Evans and The Boys earned much notoriety
during the old west's most untamed and wild history.
Raiding resturants and salloons they would drink and eat for free.
"Chalk it up!" they'd say to ......
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Categories:
raiding, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 18...12 hours of excruciating labor pangs have Sacagawea breathing
into the face of Death,
as she violently shakes her head back and forth, teeth clenched,
sweat boiling and eyes furious
it seems to m......
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Categories:
raiding, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Happy Halloween...Now I lay me down to sleep… I pray the Lord my mind to keep…
Zombies are gathered all around, trying to keep me from my sleep.
They want to be the futures’ new symbols, for All Hallows Eve.
They b......
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Categories:
raiding, fun, funny, halloween, happy,
Form:
Light Verse
The Token Poetry Editor...THE TOKEN POETRY EDITOR
Sexless, unloved, this poem tycoon
Reads the heart’s treasures as the brain's boon,
And riven with erudition, explores the spaces
Where uninvited couplets kill the place......
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Categories:
raiding, conflict, culture, gender, identity,
Form:
Sonnet
Soul Stance River - 1...The natives believe that the Mississippi River
carries the souls of their ancestors into the water of judgment
wherein they will either enter the Sun's fire of joy
or sit in the ice of the Moon ha......
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Categories:
raiding, adventure, america, christian, courage,
Form:
Epic
Last Hurrah...pilfering raccoons
raiding cornfields and orchards
laughing at farmers
Indian summer picnicking
Last hurrah before winter......
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Categories:
raiding, autumn,
Form:
Tanka
Henry Morgan Pirate of the Caribbean...Henry Morgan
Pirate of the Caribbean
Henry Morgan is my name
Pirating is my fame
My story has been told
There’s only one I claim
1635 was the year of m......
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Categories:
raiding, history,
Form:
Quatrain
Soul Stance River - 16...Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the exchange of craftsmanship,
......
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Categories:
raiding, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Apalachee...As the sun downs through the trees
Greened leaves bow for the eve
This warrior sits and reflects
Alone he plays, it's his way to grieve
For this is no normal scene
What I view he has brought t......
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Categories:
raiding, native american
Form:
Quatrain