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Combat Zone Poems - Poems about Combat Zone

Premium MemberInterview with a Fetus

...Womb
of woes,
why, plague me?
Shut up! It's you
in this combat zone
alone, and questioning.
It's not even a baby.
How do I bear this transgression?
Ask Alexa. Not real yet, Ma.
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Categories: combat zone, abortion, body, confusion, introspection,
Form: Etheree

My Battlefield Cry

...My Battlefield cry 

I've never felt so alone,
Stood on a battlefield no army I stand alone, 
Staring straight at the enemy in front of me
This enemy is not stood alone it holds the monopoly ove...
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Categories: combat zone, anxiety, change, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberJunior League Versus Army Fatigue

...Junior league
Army fatique
Build a store
Go to war

Make a collection
Get an infection
Put on airs
In cross hairs

Safe and sound
Boots on the ground
Price some clothes
Urine glows

Co...
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Categories: combat zone, life,
Form: Rhyme

That First Stone

...Armchair Warriors are watching  
Ever ready to  react and criticise.
They know all the theory but not 
Looked  through a soldier’e eyes.
Young people who were,
For various reasons, willing
To s...
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Categories: combat zone, anger, betrayal, conflict, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Chants of Mortals

...Chants of Mortals

From the first cry out of the womb like a bay window
Life presents a combat zone
Though maternal and puny
The soul knew it was an eternal race

Tick-tack, tick-tack the race...
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Categories: combat zone, adventure, birth, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Life

...Life
Life may be tough 
Days may be rough
But u still have the power
You still have the vigor to conquer
the tower of failure,
Yes life may be tough 
Sure life can be rough 
But you still hav...
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Categories: combat zone, 11th grade, africa,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMaze

...There were no monsters nor creatures of doom, nor were there fellow humans torturing me in a combat zone. There was just me, entangled by battles of my body, soul, and spirit.  Just me, engaged in wa...
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Categories: combat zone, garden,
Form: Verse

Memory Thunders

...She's the girl with no friends,
The one you made fun of for having split ends
When she used her haircut money
To buy something for her sonny
Because she loves him with all her heart,
Even if hav...
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Categories: combat zone, mom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNo More

...I remember that Sunday night 
When I got the call from my Mom
She called to let us know
My brother was wounded in Vietnam
I went to my car
Sat in my Chevy and cried
I almost lost my brother
An...
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Categories: combat zone, memory, war,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberPrayer For Those In the Armed Forces -The Candleholder of Light Style

...~Prayer For Those In The Armed Forces~
(Candleholder of Light)


O God of Mercy 
To You I pray 
Give them courage 
When they come to You 

Heal within their soul 
Just make them who...
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Categories: combat zone, holiday, love, tribute, usa,
Form: Free verse

Grace Harbour

...Grace Harbour
First into Grace Harbour
Me in classic sailboat
At anchor alone
In Desolation Sound
Where silence reveals the place
And the world is bigger
Because I can hear its’ vastness
It’s...
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Categories: combat zone, adventure, beauty, boat, environment,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberChia Pet Dragon

...Dragon was upset when the Sheriff of CrazyLand banned him from the park.
A week from the park! And the new leash law Had To Go! He Squawked!
He was bad, but to wear a leash… Upset him, sooo very mu...
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Categories: combat zone, fantasy, funny, happiness, happy,
Form: Light Verse

No Man Stands Alone - the Ballad of Barney Ross

...CHORUS
No man stands alone
in the street, the ring or the combat zone
some lay in the gutter
some sit on a throne
but no man stands alone

At the age of fourteen 
he had a dream
to become a ...
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Categories: combat zone, courage, history, song-urban, war,
Form: Ballad

For the People

...Are you allowing them to turn you into sheeple?

We do not live in a country that is “For the people”

There seems to be no real desire to change the status quo

The government plays the media like a...
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Categories: combat zone,
Form: Rhyme

Alone

...Alone

Cut straight to the bone,

In the middle of this combat zone,

Sounds so full blown,

To me it's just another stepping stone,

If I only had a clone, 

noone should have to be alone,

My heart...
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Categories: combat zone, life,
Form: Rhyme

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