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Best Salvo Poems

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


Tin Can Sailors
The mighty 3rd to the north did steam,
Chasing a ghost not to be seen

Guard the landing your task assigned,
Quiet the day is to be benign

At...

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Categories: salvo, courage, inspirational, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member At the Footbridge
At The Footbridge

Two Armies

One shoots off another salvo
The other fires back with gusto
Each offended
At the aggression of the other

At the footbridge
Foot soldiers die
In agony you...

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Categories: salvo, art, gothic, philosophy, religious,
Form: Free verse
25th October 1854 Part 2
Left And Right

Either side the cannons roar
Took of blood and wanted more
Salvo after salvo into the valley
Point blank range to deter the rally

Water poured over...

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Categories: salvo, epiclight, prayer, light,
Form: Epic
Declaration of a Saint
Communities are built on pioneer toil and generational links,
with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks.
There’s sporting ties and country hall, to...

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Categories: salvo, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Declaration of a Saint
Communities are built on pioneer toil and generational links,
with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks.
There’s sporting ties and country hall, to...

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Categories: salvo, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It Walks
Six legs, two arms and often a tail
It greets its own kind with an expectant wail
They may well converse and they may form a pack
But...

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Categories: salvo, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Is No Greater Love Than This
THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS


"For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn  the world,
 but that the world through...

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Categories: salvo, character, christian, cry, death,
Form: Narrative
A Meadow For Autumn
when eve doth fall upon summers’ end, 
   a hint of splendor bequeathed arose
upon firmament as changed scenery 
   (this third...

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Categories: salvo, age, allegory, autumn, change,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member South Africa 2019
A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams

In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion

The constitution hallucinates as...

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Categories: salvo, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Zoe
"Drop your pants Zoe"
"No, am scared"
"You will love it, trust me"
"Aa aa aa am scared"
"Look into my eyes, Zoe"
"Okay, be gentle"

It's the deafening sound of...

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Categories: salvo, blue, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
O' Baobab
O' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty 
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn, 
Against the...

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Categories: salvo, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Great Battleship
THE GREAT BATTLESHIP


Once sailed as the lumbering hulks of the high seas
Fierce winds accompanied most of its expedition
Woozy and exhausted crews grappled the oars and...

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Categories: salvo, adventure, history, men, peace,
Form: Rhyme
The Unwanted Priest
Only on his palm were cowries
And thread-cloaked bullhorn found.
Only on his neck we found 
The  coral beads of truth and courage.
Only on  his...

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Categories: salvo, devotion, faith, history, life,
Form: I do not know?
The Mad Dance
The klaxon sounds and off we do scurry
Up to the gun house we head in a hurry

Through narrow p-ways and up noisy stairs
We pass each...

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Categories: salvo, history, war,
Form: Rhyme
World
World
Of a Great truth the world is Sweet,
Shaking hands with those that got Understanding
Smiling and Mocking the Ignoramus.

Of 'ts fate the World satisfy all;
For her...

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Categories: salvo, happinessworld, truth,
Form: Fibonacci

Book: Shattered Sighs