Best War Paint Poems
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 sticks, for him to shoot and play.
Attired as a cowboy for the day
he ......
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Categories:
war paint, war,
Form:
Pantoum
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 phantas......
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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 stand as high as me,
I am filled with effervescence, tou......
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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
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 cut down the fi......
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Categories:
war paint, allegory, history, truth, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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.
Clothed in a loin cloth made ......
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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 sadness
HER dreams all come undone,
“Which star’s......
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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 don’t know what is causing it
You don’......
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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 as the sun
While you cast your line in small......
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Categories:
war paint, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Talk To the Hand - For Contest
...
y'all know me- I'm in the poem biz
and it is a no brainer when I need a fix(I come to the main drag)of
this poetry site
this my security blanket my safe harbor m......
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Categories:
war paint, poems, poetry, word play,
Form:
Free verse
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 only skin d......
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Categories:
war paint, black african american, immigration,
Form:
Rhyme
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 where his tired soul can fin......
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Categories:
war paint, appreciation, conflict, death, history,
Form:
Rhyme
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 stick to their guns......
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Categories:
war paint, word play, words, writing,
Form:
Free verse
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 call
Guess I better sit on the shelf otherwise I’ll go completely......
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Categories:
war paint, fun, humorous, nonsense, ,
Form:
Couplet
5
...
"5"
benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world
grace, a name
whispered before
a meal shared
5 fingers
on each hand
steeples, hiding people
g......
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Categories:
war paint, war,
Form:
Free verse