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Best War Paint Poems

Below are the all-time best War Paint poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of war paint poems written by PoetrySoup members


War Paint Mixture
Haudenosaunee ...
translation: They made the house
But who painted it
the colors we now see ---
Red, white and blue
Let's go back in time shall we,
and observe who...

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Categories: war paint, allegory, history, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member He Was My Sun
He was my sun, my one and only son,
attired as a cowboy for the day. 
And so I handed him a little gun
of fastened random...

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Categories: war paint, war,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Jester
THE JESTER

Jester jingles
with madcap medusa-bells,
dressed in melodic-motley uniform.
A sea of foamy frills
frame the famed renaissance storyteller,
a creature feature
of phantasm for frightened children.
His ghost-white face
with comedic...

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Categories: war paint, history,
Form: Alliteration
I Spit Fire - Contest
I spit fire from my lungs,
None can extinguish my flame, 
The Ink I write with bleeds into their brains.
They wish they could raise up and...

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Categories: war paint, fantasy, slam,
Form: Free verse
Sun and Shadows
It's all about sun and shadows...good times and bad
Waking and sleeping...happy and sad
Black clouds and rain
blue skies and white doves
Peace,love and beauty...fear,hate and mistrust

It's all...

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Categories: war paint, lifesun,
Form: Rhyme



A View of Heaven
Long blue-black, straight hair.
 The color of a raven so rare.
Cheek bones chiseled with grace.
 A tan Native American face.

Hair, braided with a ritual feather.
...

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Categories: war paint, fantasy, native american, passionnative
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Possums On the Run - Part 4
"Possums on the Run - Part 4"

Stars in the sky, 
he sits on his back steps,
he’s thinking of all his dreams,
his one true love, his...

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Categories: war paint, childhood, daughter, father, life,
Form: Free verse
Hey You
Hey you,
I know what you are going through
Trying to stand tall and strong
While a deep rooted pain arising from within
Is eating you from the inside	
You...

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Categories: war paint, inspiration, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
A Letter To My Past
How do you like me as I am today?
Twenty years young, triumphantly boasting 
Success through all you had been foreboding.
Casting my vast nets as far...

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Categories: war paint, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Race-Ism
Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are...

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Categories: war paint, black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Talk To the Hand - For Contest
y'all know me-     I'm in the poem biz     
and it is a no brainer   ...

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Categories: war paint, poems, poetry, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Until His Red-Heart Weeps
Until His Red-Heart Weeps

In his forest, the Indian avoided the trappings of the white men;
There his footfalls upon soft and clean, untouched virgin ground;
A place...

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Categories: war paint, appreciation, conflict, death, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Win- Lose Or Place--Colloquialisms
Writing for contests, is often a crapshoot!
Some may be teasers, and others no brainers.
Results often open a new can of worms,
though sponsors with backbones, will...

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Categories: war paint, word play, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colloquialisms - For Contest
Poor Humpty Dumpty was a numpty when he fell off the garden wall
His poor old ma went bananas, told me to buzz off when I...

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Categories: war paint, fun, humorous, nonsense, ,
Form: Couplet
Pushed Too Hard
I am a gentle man, and I try with all my heart to love my fellow man and do all that I 
can, to help...

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Categories: war paint, angstwar, may, time, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things