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Death Or Glory Poems - Poems about Death Or Glory

Premium Member took a bullet in my brain
...took a bullet in my brain no refrain no restrain in a war I feel the pain war is horrible for both sides there is no place for us to hide death or glory? You are kidding right? so many lay d......

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Categories: death or glory, war,
Form: Rhyme
Too feeble to scare
...a weak, tiring roar~ the same one that once shook the jungles... now too feeble to scare. Its strength fades to past glory... as death lingers close to claim.......

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Categories: death or glory, death, loneliness, lonely, lost
Form: Free verse



A Suicide On Stage
...Leonore was disliked, cast aside and ignored, her rage increased with bizarre behavior: why couldn't she be the eternal and idolized Queen? And envy grew towards the more successful thespians; h......

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Categories: death or glory, allusion, anger, anxiety, character,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Arena of the Elderly
...My last foray into this arena Had me living memories, not wished to share Here I go again, another visit Into the elderly homes, we wish not A sunny day, another gathering Carers working, maki......

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Categories: death or glory, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time Running Out
...My last foray into this arena Had me living memories not wished to share Here I am again, another visit Into the elderly homes we wish not A sunny day another gathering Nurses working, making ......

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Categories: death or glory, age, bereavement, care, conflict,
Form: Free verse



A Soldier's Destiny
...Nothing marks the day he left this world no pomp, no glory, no flags unfurled no marching parade to fill the streets no tears to run down crimson hued cheeks No one to hold him, no one to care ......

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Categories: death or glory, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Captain and Cook
...Three times the Master spoke and three times the capstan broke. Decks awash with briny spume, the storm raged in the gathering gloom. 'Pull in that spar or else we're doomed!' Above the roar the......

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Categories: death or glory, adventure, fantasy, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Herstory, Not History
...(for Virginia Woolf) She wanted to buy some flowers but drowned Herself instead, drifting along the ebbing flow of time, with warm water cracking Her slim figure and airless lungs. ‘will I fr......

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Categories: death or glory, art,
Form: Free verse
Oh Passchendaele
...Oh! Passchendaele your story has been told Of endless mud they trudged where their life was sold Thousands left the safety of their trench lines And disappeared into the mud for all time It mak......

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Categories: death or glory, death, war, world war
Form: Ballad
Black,Red and Gold
...BLACK,RED and GOLD Location---SOMEWHERE IN KÖNIGSBERG 1945 APRIL 9 Scene---A Dying German Agent/A Soldier`s thoughts/reflections just before death On this periphery of life Let blue jeans of......

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Categories: death or glory, death, farewell, fire, patriotic,
Form: Vaasokht
Premium Member Small Cog In a Huge Machine
...1914-18 War. Just another small cog In a huge machine Working together Aimed at some foreign foe To give a bloody mortal blow And end a wave of ternary Spreading across Europe Over seas Like a pande......

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Categories: death or glory, history, horror, irony, memorial
Form: Free verse
The Stargazer's Ride For Wild Wild Westcowboy Contest
...THE STARGAZER'S RIDE (or THE LAST SPURRING LICK) Saddle shoulder-tossed like feather light ......

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Categories: death or glory, adventure, animal, cowboy-western, life,
Form: Free verse
Die In Glory
...I might have died with my eyes open wide. Please ! close them so my misery could hide. Give me a bath in rose water. Make my grave stone telling mister. Dress me all up in black. Don't forget to ment......

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Categories: death or glory, death, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Freestyle
...Free style Fire travailing and traveling Lies basking behind Sorrows burrowing my bones Empitiness dueling sleeplessness Vain expectations looming Kith and kins nagging Heaven's gate silence......

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Categories: death or glory, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Game of Beast and Man
...……….... On act two, my handkerchief dropped down on my weakening feet, escaping the wipe of tears from my sullen lids: by this time children too young to make their own milk burst i......

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Categories: death or glory, angst,
Form: Lyric

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