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

All Those Loves Around Me
...I've been here before Caught in the crossfire of change Scattered peices of a past long forgotten I travel on with hope in my reach Each day I grow a little stronger I stand a little taller I b......

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, change, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NEW - Where is The Love Mamma - The Video
... Synopsis: A powerful video, lyrics and music that sheds light on the devastating impact of poverty, illustrating how it fuels crime, gang violence, and psychological trauma i......

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, anger, angst, conflict, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Scheria
...These waves crash hard into me like I am a greater force to conquer than the very shore it swore to forever be enemies with The storm rolls in, a cavalry of raindrops assault my skin, and I just s......

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, addiction, analogy, childhood, environment,
Form: Rhyme Royal
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......

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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......

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, funny, humor, irony, language,
Form: Free verse

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