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Best Sniper Poems

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


The Sniper In the Tree
Years ago this story I am told
Of a bullet that came from a tree
No combat yet a peaceful day
One walking to gather water to shave

Helmet...

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© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sniper, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: sniper, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member John F Kennedy - Martin Luther King Jr - Robert F Kennedy and Donald Duck
it was the sixties
we were young
we were going to change the world
spin it like a basketball on our finger
take the three point shot 
win the...

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Categories: sniper, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Was a Human
Allow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:

Did he just splatter?

And allow me...

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Categories: sniper, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Acts of Aggression
         Based on a quote from Watership Down:
"He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running."

His...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sniper, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tale of Righteous and Just Demise of Old Jack
Tale Of Righteous And Just Demise Of Old Jack

Old Jack had shot many before, once just for the sheer hell of it
Never squeamish about the...

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Categories: sniper, art, creation, dark, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Birds Eye Self Surveillance
Theres a man in the sky, can you see him hiding, crouching behind the grey mist rising. 
Thunder and lightning seems to guide him to...

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Categories: sniper, 7th grade, blue, change,
Form: Rhyme
Fantastic Flora Masquerade
Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude feign...

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Categories: sniper, abuse, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Zero
ZERO

it’s so cold
where do outdoor animals go
to stay alive
two black crows caw cawing
from a tree top

sun’s out
you’d never know
it’s zero outside
cat wants out
but just one...

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Categories: sniper, weather,
Form: Tanka
Poetry Destroyed
you claim to be the Poetry Destroyer
but i'll destroy you
i'll kick you into touch because I know Kung-Fu
in linguistics I own a belt thats black
i'll...

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Categories: sniper, funny
Form: Free verse
An Illicit Affair
It was an illicit affair, you'd think, they wouldn't dare, they believed, if we handle it with care no one would be aware. Bur they...

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Categories: sniper, appreciation, betrayal, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Footle Odd Jobs
Complaining Hitman

Sniper
Griper

Internet Detective

Hacker
Tracker

Welcomers at Adulterers Anonymous

Cheater
Greeter

Umbrella-carrying Pilot

Drier
Flyer

Male Greeter

Hello
Fellow

Elderly Au Pair

Granny
Nanny


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Categories: sniper, humorous,
Form: Footle
Permanent Guest
Brain spatter smacked me in the face
Blood was everywhere, so thick I could taste it
I rolled to the left and with blurry eyes aimed 
Eliminating...

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Categories: sniper, warfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Pock Marked
Pock marked

Bert was cooking in a bucket,
Knew his hide at any rate
Pock marks on his thighs an biceps,
Shot that day by a sniper, mate,

Sniper chopped...

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Categories: sniper, adventure, day, war, day,
Form: Ballad
Silent But Deadly

Sniper hid vapors
tend to always bullet strike
with stealth air carrier accuracy

Silent noxious assault
pierced the nostrils
with oxy painful inhalation,
of the non-ventilated third degree 

Deadly gaseous arrows
hit...

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Categories: sniper, fun, humorous, satire, word
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things