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Best Recruitment Poems

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Premium Member The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a...

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Categories: recruitment, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Kingdom of Ruin

Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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Categories: recruitment, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story...

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Categories: recruitment, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict,
Form: Free verse
A Royal Engineer
A mere lad of fifteen years
Amid a life of bullying and tears,
I set out one day to end my fears,
I went to join the Engineers.

The...

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Categories: recruitment, growing up, happiness, military,
Form: Carpe Diem
About Kalaam From My Kalam
He had sleepless dreams ....

Admiring trillions of Indians, he rose like a rose with colours of valour
Born in Rameshwaram village, to Jainulabdeen a poor boat...

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Categories: recruitment, beautiful, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Acrostic



Inventiveness
creation, inspiration, philosophy, spoken word,


INVENTIVENESS  © 
                 ...

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Categories: recruitment, creation, inspiration, philosophy, spoken
Form: Verse
Army Life
Army Life

There’s no way out, if a sabot hits,
Your blown to smithereens; small burning
Bits: you think it’s fine, an end to life, 
What about your...

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Categories: recruitment, military, philosophy,
Form: Verse
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: recruitment, community, destiny, earth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Hey Martin
Wishing the time would stop 
I got rhymers block
But I a shine a lot 
 Listening to mines & PAC 
Music confused when my time...

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Categories: recruitment, africa, america, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Campaign Evolution
Question for candidates:

Assuming you preach what you most exegetically practice,
how has your campaign prioritized

carbon footprint reduction,
investment in ecosystemic cooperative policies and procedures,
disinvestment in Business As...

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Categories: recruitment, environment, love, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Run Boy
Run Boy!

"Your country needs you!"
The recruitment poster claimed,
I listened to my fathers words; 
"Run boy, and sign your name"

Like in my dreams I was a...

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Categories: recruitment, world war i, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Granda's Wartime Tales
When I was a little girl
My grandfather had a tin
With a sailor smoking a cigarette on the lid
It was what he kept his medals in

He...

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Categories: recruitment, grandfather, nostalgia, war,
Form: Rhyme
Children At Risk
Children At Risk
children are at risk when they can 
physically hold a gun
forced recruitment of guerrilla groups
is not unknown
and occurs mainly in the third world
some...

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Categories: recruitment, black african american, childhood,
Form: Concrete
Selfish Employment
Once I was an alien
because of family ties
Once I was a sailor man
Told recruitment lies
Now I am a veteran
with socialized security
A part time postal carrier
With...

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Categories: recruitment, introspection, nostalgia, on work
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Magic Factory
I’m opening a factory,
Recruitment starts today,
I’ll describe you the Person Spec.
Send me your resumee.
You have to have experience,
Of doing magic tricks,
And no exaggeration,
How you use...

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Categories: recruitment, magic,
Form: Rhyme

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