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Cannonballs Poems - Poems about Cannonballs

Pen as Sword
...i drew out my glittery pens and turned them into swords ready for the war against their words and my thoughts i pen down my feelings in stories and prose my ink like cannonballs aimed at the......

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Categories: cannonballs, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence and Shouts
...Silence and Shouts I listen to him breathing. If it’s labored, I ask, “Are you okay?” And from over the rings of walls of silence he has built around himself, He implores, “You hear so poorly,......

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Categories: cannonballs, feelings, god, happiness, health,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Row To Riches
... Aye, scurvy dog! Take one of those! as cannonballs deal deadly blows. A satisfying, savage row: the bond between the rowers grows. But rapid fire, be on your toes; you’re in the open, ......

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Categories: cannonballs, fun, health,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Stormy Weather
...Seaweed, fragmented shell as cannonballs in maelstrom hurled upon the shore. The bellowing wind cast all asunder as Summer’s shoots from shifting sand were torn. Such was Autumn’s storm. The ......

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Categories: cannonballs, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eggshells
...for some reason around your fortress you’ve built insurmountable blockades and from their safety you thrive on lashing out catapulting showers of fireballs and cannonballs it took a whil......

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Categories: cannonballs, anxiety, character, people, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dreams of Peace
...He envisioned peace on fields of war cannonballs and death Hit as the war was ending sweet dreams for aye denied ~ on a hero's dying breath......

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Categories: cannonballs, dream, hero, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Harpooned
...aeolian mist of Bretagne as the orange sun cannonballs into the ocean depths. shrillness of sound on shepherd peaks, trembles down on panic-grass. sprites and sirens toss’d from their sleep.......

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Categories: cannonballs, humor, sea,
Form: Light Verse
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
...Turkish Poetry Translations II Çanakkale Sehitlerine "For the Çanakkale Martyrs" by Mehmet Akif Ersoy loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Was there ever anything lik......

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Categories: cannonballs, autumn, god, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
...Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish Na......

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Categories: cannonballs, dark, death, earth, grave,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Old Ironsides
...massive oak timbers  hearty men piped to action mighty war machine planks resisted cannonballs  like our nation, still afloat......

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Categories: cannonballs, analogy, endurance, patriotic, power,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Middle Child Syndrome
...When I was 4 1/2 years old, as abrupt as a spanking, my once reliable mother brought home a hospital surprise with an alien face and a blood-darkened eerie belly clip that was to suddenly......

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Categories: cannonballs, absence, childhood, me, memory,
Form: Prose
Portraits On the Fourth of July
...A girl in the crowd takes a selfie. Her tam o’shanter sparkles because of the fireworks going off in the background. At the gates of Moscow Tchaikovsky runs away hands over his ears. The girl ......

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Categories: cannonballs, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Yeah Yeah Yeah
...Blue Barrel Blue Barrel you got me over you Fraudulent extravagant How much you want to bet Winners odds surround it by Cannonballs Jump for joy Boxes of toy if batted and overjoyed Dark chocol......

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Categories: cannonballs, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Imagine
...Imagine this, your heart is racing. You’re nervous about meeting someone new. You have so many scenarios running through your head, But you stay the course. The excitement flies like butterflie......

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Categories: cannonballs, best friend, betrayal, fear,
Form: Free verse
On Chance, Fate, Probability, and the Fear of Death
...It's always struck me as amazing how folks will buy more lottery tickets as the odds increase, so long as the prize money increases. The recent billion dollar lottery sent the masses into a frenzy--a......

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Categories: cannonballs, animal, appreciation, atheist, death,
Form: Prose

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