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Best Solider Poems

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Little Solider
together with our broken hearts
a little life within our hands
and heavy burdens on our backs
you and i, we used to laugh

together, when the rain would...

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Categories: solider, friendship, loss, love, people,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
My Only Hope
I fell asleep one dreary day
I lost my will, I lost my way
I ran from all I ever knew
And feared the call I was supposed...

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Categories: solider, faith, life, rap, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Put Them Out of Sight Now
Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard...

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Categories: solider, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Patriotism
Have you ever thought about the Death of Christ?
Why did they crucify him?
If you read the story then you know
But what I ask is why...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, life, people, sad, warchildren,
Form: Free verse



Finding Yourself
You took my love
And used it against me
You destroyed my heart 
Or so you thought

Look were i am
Wishing you were there
Waiting like a solider
All the...

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Categories: solider, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Game {narrative}
Two giants stare into each other’s eyes
Each out to prove that he is more wise
The battlefield is broken down into squares
The moves are recorded to...

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Categories: solider, warwar, war,
Form: Narrative
Unity
Sticky fingers of unity,bonding one to another.
Linking chunks of glass to original form.
A glass brushed  off a counter by a child,who feared the united...

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Categories: solider, hope, rain, life, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child Once More
Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up one morning
To find you were still a child
So much energy jumping up and down upon your bed
So many...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, adventure, child, childhood, fun,
Form: Couplet
When I Was Nine
My bedroom had two doors when I was nine
One opened into the hall that led to our living room and the other opened into the...

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Categories: solider, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In Memorial's Honor
Raise the flag of liberation, let the bells
Of freedom ring, but most of all let us thank
These men and women of valor, on the behalf
Of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, america, courage, history, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mark Anthony and Cleopatra-3
The Egyptian standard falls, unto histories surrendering, 
The deserts breath, is so stilled,  under the Nile river's
Murky abyss, busted masts, heave against the 
Heavily...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, heartbroken, history, imagery, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vanished
VANISHED

We are the echoing voices crying within the darkness,
Melting mists of vapor co-existing amongst the living,
The ambling drifters shifting between reality and limbo,
The vanished.

Displacement malfunction,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, adventure, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Forgotten Voices
The date
July Twenty Eight
The year, 1914
The War which we feared 
It began, something we could not foresee
This date, still haunters me
To this very day
Those bewailing...

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Categories: solider, conflict, courage, depression, military,
Form: Free verse
My Flag
Shining star above,you see
Shine..you're the reason of my glee
Shine...even it's all black
My Pride...You..O my Flag 

Solider there at the border 
Hasn't sent the money order
Family...

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© Saba Khan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solider, identity,
Form: Kyrielle

Book: Shattered Sighs