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Best Ranks Poems

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Categories: ranks, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Death of a Lancer
My one true love with eyes of sparkling blue
Our hearts as one it was our destiny
Heaven sent you for me and me for you
It would...

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Categories: ranks, death, horse, love, soldier,
Form: Sonnet
Over the Moorlands
Sullen would be onset of grey, indivisible-dawning;
Soon, lifting mist dissipating beneath the brae.
Comes then a gentle heat arising with the morning...
Thus the remaking of another...

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Categories: ranks, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Heaven Is Real
In 1971 my wife, a nursing aid at the time,
               ...

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Categories: ranks, beautiful, bible, caregiving, christian,
Form: Prose
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version - 4
4.

Now things started to become clear,
Both Alahsar and Salahmar in the same space,
One would find Victory, the other, leave this place,
light and dark in the...

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Categories: ranks, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Glass Hours
So doth each nameless grain of sand
Deny the fate of those who went before
Believing there is purpose to their flow
As waves believe their haven is...

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Categories: ranks, death, fate, time,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A World Without War
Peace and unity sing in harmony, echoing worldwide,
When acts of humility replace revenge-infused pride,
When narrowness of mind, naked ambitions subside,
When nations of goodwill, stand together...

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Categories: ranks, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Gold-Digger
Well, now that I am registered officially,
into the ranks of those who search and dig,
for gold, and paper that's done and serialized,
or plastic that buys...

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Categories: ranks, friendship, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall 
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly...

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Categories: ranks, heartbreak, places,
Form: Rhyme
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: ranks, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Sword and Lance and Bill
Come by the Sword, Die by the Sword

They stood in ranks a thousand long
High upon the hill
The Roman legion, fierce and strong
With sword and lance...

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Categories: ranks, war,
Form: Quatrain
Soldier's Regret
I have seen the "corners of the world,"
heard the songs of many languages.
I have helped bring peace from many wars,
and played with the poor children...

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Categories: ranks, warsoldier,
Form: Free verse
Revere the Founding Fathers, Part I
We star it off with Ben Franklin,
American renaissance man,
whose industry and sharp wit
made him the richest in the land.
Lived out an American dream
before the country...

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Categories: ranks, america, appreciation, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme
Gone
Gone are the  demons, gone are the gangs
No more mafia in their ranks.

Gone are the criminals, don't need police.
Don't need lawyers, those reformed make...

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Categories: ranks, bible, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Night In Goa
Sleep, my love, near placid waters
Under a pale moon that lights the way,
Mosquitos resound their ranks to attack 
A humble cottage where you and I...

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Categories: ranks, love, lust,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs