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Best Unexploded Poems

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


Premium Member The Syrian Devil
Children lie dying
Punished for waking up one more day
In unbearable heat, in a dirty war
They have no Generals
To defend them
From the evils of men
They have...

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Categories: unexploded, children, war,
Form: Light Verse



Make Love Not War
Make Love Not War

I want to plant sugar-mines, 
that blow on footfall’s touch,
they slap you on the calfs and
thighs and splash chocolate 
on your crotch

then...

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Categories: unexploded, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Devil Eyes
The day i saw
this con man
was night
and wind
was snow
and rain
he was laughing
kicking for fun
white snow balls
and children skulls
angels like flies
were falling around...

It happened the day
I...

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Categories: unexploded, confusion, day, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Class of 85
Excited bustle
What we were missing returns
Unexploded clan
Heart’s origins, simple times
Uncomplicated soul bonds

Cresting apogee
Highest point of our proud arcs
Yet farthest away
From yore’s endless sun-drenched days
When life...

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Categories: unexploded, anniversary, class, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Tanka
Human Uxos
They just lie low
Waiting to pounce
With deadly results
On innocent people
And causing unfathomable
Mental and physical damage
These are strictly speaking
Not people with heart and soul
They are unexploded...

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Categories: unexploded, visionary,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member 100 Seconds To Midnight
An endangered species, living on a ledge,
100 seconds to Midnight, then over the edge,
Nearest to Doomsday, humans have ever been,
Vaporised! inside mushrooms of boiling hot...

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Categories: unexploded, allegory, conflict, earth day,
Form: Quatrain
Celestial War
unexploded shell
   soldiers trying to defuse
   silence now departs
   leaving them no time to lose
   heaven fights...

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Categories: unexploded, war,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Hellhounds Doggie Chow Part 1
If you drink that SPECIAL brand of Kool-aid,And now you flounder belly up make sure someone else is there with you,(and not just for good...

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Categories: unexploded, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I Am From
I am from fast-food,
From paper plates and dinners in front of the t.v.
I am from the stale stubborn silence,
Eating away at smiles
I am from the...

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Categories: unexploded, 10th grade, family, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ss City of Benares
SS CITY OF BENARES

Prior knowledge this ship will carry weapons to aid Britain on its return journey
Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt, should have waited, but; trigger...

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Categories: unexploded, appreciation, boat, children, leaving,
Form: Couplet
Lost Connections
I remember the red heat rising from my neck,
The embarrassment of being accosted by the police,
Because I was never supposed to see you again,
The irrational...

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Categories: unexploded, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ponds of Blood Road
Along the blood road
there's thousands of ponds
carved out by American bombs.
An attempt to blast communism
into starry oblivion-
It'll take a hundred years to remove 
unexploded ordinances(uox's)
Children...

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Categories: unexploded, war, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bombs Away
BOMBS AWAY
"Holy crap, that's one fair turd offloaded Hermann, you must be relieved"

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )

"Exeter unearths an unexploded 1.000 kg World...

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Categories: unexploded, humor, metaphor, world war
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Cellulite and Silk
Every work of art has a bit of cellulite.
The perspective is off:
a comma misplaced
a disjointed ending to a play
a cracked pirouette 
an unexploded ordinance
Every masterpiece...

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Categories: unexploded, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Girly Stories
Girly Stories

There may be unexploded shells
or rats that squirm among the sordid waste.
But only girly stories each one tells
as they walk home together in their...

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Categories: unexploded, age, children, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs