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Caught In The Crossfire Poems - Poems about Caught In The Crossfire

Caught In The Crossfire Poems - Examples of all types of poems about caught in the crossfire to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for caught in the crossfire.
Premium Member Stole From US
... In the twelth hour We're pursuing generational wealth From a generation who stole Everything from us The clock ticks closer to doom But we're no closer to finding our own reality When......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, america, anger, conflict, fate,
Form: Free verse

Sonnet to the Empty Grave - a Spenserian sonnet
... The love of God is a priceless blessing An affection mightier than fire Empty grave; the saints, forever singing To die for me was his greatest desire Shall I liken Christ to any desire? The......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, mystery, religious, thanksgiving,
Form: Sonnet
Rain of Sorrow
...In the land where skies once wept with grace, Now echoes of war, tears stream down the face. A family torn in the midst of strife, Caught in the crossfire of two nations' life. The father, once......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, emotions, family, hurt, miss
Form: Free verse
PLEA FOR PEACE
...Beasts! Killers! Soulless beings, devoid of empathy, Ruthless in your actions, Inflicting pain without remorse. What sins have the innocent committed? Caught in the crossfire of your wars, Ag......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, children, conflict, cry, dark,
Form: ABC
Crimes against humanity
...In a land torn by evils cruel hands where innocence once thrived in golden sand echoes now haunt barren torched lands of children lost, tears fall in graves of pain Fourteen thousand souls, too......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, dark, discrimination, evil,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Jagged
...On the jagged edge of conflict The sharp blade of hate begins to show This hate boils over into war and blood begins to flow Fiery flashes of bomb blasts Light up the violent night Innoce......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, war,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Innocence
...We tend to lose our innocence as the years unfold So the innocence of our children is a beauty to behold Children sing before they know it's a song Dance to any music that just comes along Dr......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, children, innocence, murder, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
...On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation And told them......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
...The occupation of India began, with the East India company And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might And to maintain s......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
Salad City
...Salad City By Francis Powell Nobody can breath in Salad City There’s snakes in the sea, in salad city They are just living out a dream in Salad City Or just throwing their lives away I we......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, addiction, analogy, childhood, environment,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Innocence Lost
...We adults tend to lose ours innocence as the years unfold… which is why the innocence of our children is a beauty we behold. Children sing before they realize there even is a song. They dance wh......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, innocence, violence,
Form: Verse
Lost In Distraction
...I was not mad at you I was just frustrated by life I did not man for you To get caught in the crossfire I did not want you to feel invisible But I got absorbed in the struggle The s......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, introspection, life, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Such a Cliche
...I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise Drinking like a fish, kicking the bucket a fine kettle of fish, beyond the pale. A fish o......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, funny, humor, irony, language,
Form: Free verse
Calling Cupid
...Atmospheres afire with devotional dynamic desire I call scarlet jasmine crimson vermillion and ruby red We are caught in a crossfire as we perkily perspire And cupid carries our hearts to our betr......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, love, passion, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Woe
...Woe betide he! Condemned from the very beginning to ultimate destruction Preoccupied with recruiting souls with reckless abandon With a mandate to wreck havoc on mankind before his time is done T......Read the rest...
Categories: caught in the crossfire, depression, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

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