Best Snipers Poems

Whatever was in their heads
May have pushed them over the edge

What they call fear
Means turning a deaf ear
Than becoming nebulous about the facts
When their motive was clear

Grief has no color but it has many names
Your grief, my grief and their grief is all the same

If...

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A Boy,
his Mother named Fred

Is better known to his Friend's

By the caustic nickname 

Snipers Dream

Because of the size of his head

Slimline was 2XL all around was constantly eating
Whereas
Fatt's was shaped like a cigarette 
and hardly ate at all

Tall Paul was 4 Foot something
Shorty was 6...

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Fly on hand
born of comrade’s corpse,
the only memory of what has gone before.

The fleas that hide,
slowly drinking my soul,
a world where freedom lies
snug in the recess of my body,
a giving god to them.

And as I curse the itch with embers burn
I peer through the sight...

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Dust and blood on an iPod that plays,
Hole, for love of country, for love,
Of the scope on a fine bolt action M-40  rifle.
Cupid was a sniper, for love of Psyche.
Like the marksman in the minaret that shot,
Lance Corporal Miller in the face,
He will have...

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A SNIPERS TALE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My spotter and I form a highly efficient crew
Dedicated to eliminating those menacing you
We take up position under the cover of night
Then search for the sniper hidden from sight
Scour the terrain for any sight of his presence
Find him first, for he...

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