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Best Warring Poems

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Warring Hypocrisy
I toss the coin anxiously
For both sides perturb and dazzle me…

The first side, well, it is a beauty to say the least
It is clear, crisp,...

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Categories: warring, change, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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Categories: warring, art, death, hero, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Recipe For Promiscuity - Ty
Boring
Snoring
Warring
Whoring
Long life with a boring, snoring sod
made the wife a warring whoring broad.


For Your Turn For A Tyburn Poetry Contest
sponsored by charles messina...

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Categories: warring, husband, wife,
Form: Tyburn
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: warring, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phobia
No flame within! 
      do I hold for you
no delightful delicacy
      shall I put to...

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Categories: warring, angst, light, world,
Form: Free verse



Words of Mass Destruction
Words of Mass Destruction



Words like bullets do not have eyes, as they fly in our hearts and materialize
Deleterious breaths that we soon despise, words written...

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Categories: warring, abuse, hurt, words, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagine
Imagine all the people
who trade in human life,
imagine all the reasons
given to this particular vice.
I visualize the rivers
that run with coagulated blood,
I visualize the tyrant
that...

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Categories: warring, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Artumes Armies
Harken...those hollowing drums
Over cold vales so beat,
Exhorting a multitude of glistening 
Star-tipped spears,
As marching over shattered landscapes
In shinning replete:
Crunch Artumes eternal legions
Across the snow bound...

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Categories: warring, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gift
From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: warring, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Vietnam War
The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed

This...

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Categories: warring, death, history, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Gods of Winds
A warring god of wind storms and lightening,
Rudra, rough looking, well built, braided hair
Golden in color, of firm limbs widening
With streaks of lightening and fearful...

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Categories: warring, god, mythology, wind,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, a Collaboration With Vladislav Raven
The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, 
A Collaboration With Vladislav Raven

Part (1.)

Biding his time, as each day wrangles its hours away
his soul resting...

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Categories: warring, art, courage, history, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wolves
"Wolves"



Pulchritude is not a beautiful word.

Dark can be beautiful
when walking with wolves
hearing their stories
sad songs of love lost 
soft they begin 
and then hungry
for the...

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Categories: warring, dark, halloween, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Ode To the End of War
Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No...

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Categories: warring, friendship, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Upon Sweet Winged Dreams
Somnolence of sweet dreams.
These are given to be most combustible or tranquil.
Taken them in midday and midnight flights.
These truly are a delicate delight.

Now, soaring adoring...

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Categories: warring, dream, emotions, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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