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Body Bags Poems - Poems about Body Bags

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Premium Member Shades Of Doubt
...Santa could you help me out, I’m in a dozen shades of doubt Half the world is ‘weapons out’, all the rest just scream and shout “Don’t do this and don’t do that, would you kindly pause your spat?” ......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme



Zipper
...A snaking mouth sloughs two spines, the rattle of small vertebrae and delicate teeth. A woman learns to ride them, feels the trombone slide of a dragon’s tail. A man lifts tugging fingers, ......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Leaving
...See them scattered everywhere in buses, trucks and horse buggies, thousands of them lined the street with only the clothes on their backs and a bottle of water to wet their dry throats when the tempe......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, america, best friend, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Across the Line
...Morning came alive with rockets and missile pounding over my head and screams and shouts crying out like bleating sheep and empty vessels coming from the cemetery and everyone was in a hurry to bury ......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, absence, abuse, allah, america,
Form: Narrative
Overwrought By Hamas Had Been Shot
...will end when and where have been many lives to spare be kind and take care many overwrought by hamas they had been shot so much sin was sought lying and beguile blew up buildings mile by ......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Anchors of Sin
...(This is all just my opinion, what I glean from the internet, Mainstream News, and my imagination – do your own research. If there is any truth in my observations, this write will definitely n......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, integrity, political, power, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Bloodless Conquest Underway
.... A Bloodless Conquest Underway Armies of the world have United All the military in common greed Power- in Weapons is Authority Baying for blood- quite outdated Patriots - …They saved their ......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, humanity, war,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Thirty-Eight Caliber Candy
...The border is broken and ignored. Mixed in with desperate angels are snakes-demons-gangsters. The latest game of Chinese checkers (the fentanyl plague) has taken the place of the Wuhan rage... Bo......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, candy, future, usa,
Form: Free verse
Missed the Wars
...I missed Korea and Vietnam, growing up too slow for the harvest. Of the survivors, many seemed numbed, as if Nurse Ratched had broken their minds with a hatchet. Out of Iraq and Afghanist......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ignore and Out the Door
...when we would ignore not see around anymore had gone out the door below and under were worse off than each other fire out smother once was the life blood killed our flowers and each bud b......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Butchered In Bucha
...They were butchered in Bucha Victims of unprovoked aggression Wrapped in body bags of wickedness Like chicken preserved in the cold room What a world of brutality What an act of bestiality......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, allusion, anger, bereavement, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Bring the Troops Home
...They willfully exile themselves from fight, turn into friendly sports their military training, warming their old cold beds. Save your charitable cause of lauding the warriors and the body bags,......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, peace,
Form: Free verse
Ptsd Prayer
...As I lay me down to dream Please don't let me fight or scream Keep the nightmares far away Don't let me watch The death replay. Let me have One peaceful night To stay asleep until the light.......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, cry, death, grief, how
Form: Rhyme
A Place of War
...Did you go to the place of war? The place men leave and come back as bleeding souls, the place men come back in body bags with no story to be told, the place dementos suck the life out of your bones,......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, death, fate, grief, veterans
Form: Free verse
Still Counting
...And when it ends suddenly, unexpectedly, You start to count. First on the days, then the hours - then Just counting until 100 Then Beginning again. The dead find their faces The l......Read the rest...
Categories: body bags, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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