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
He Was My SunHe 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
The JesterTHE 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 - ContestI 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 ShadowsIt'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 HeavenLong 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
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 YouHey 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 PastHow 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-IsmRace-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
Categories:
war paint, poems, poetry, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Until His Red-Heart WeepsUntil 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
Win- Lose Or Place--ColloquialismsWriting 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
Colloquialisms - For ContestPoor 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 HardI 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