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Deterrence Poems - Poems about Deterrence

Premium Member Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
... We came not for conquest, but for containment— though conquest is what happens when containment itches beneath the skin like sulfur spores in a sealed lung. They had the secret. Not gold, n......

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Categories: deterrence, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Purple Prickly Pear
...Spirits of the woodland deep. Gather, please, at gate. Shadow, dark fire, through me seep! Hummingbirds can hate! Where the prickly pear was grown? Deep beneath a lake. Where the angry god wa......

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Categories: deterrence, baptism, blessing,
Form: Rhyme



Dun Days
...Dun days? Clouds above in greys? Sapphire? Purple haze? Deterrence, dessicate, cays. Buildings on the raze. World around in twilight. Months ahead a-grim. Heart within me, burn with fight! C......

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Categories: deterrence, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Total War
...Tread not on me, brother! To live is to expand. Deterrence! Slay the Other! Cold core countermand! Boots a-click-clack, cobblestone. Midnight raid and how! Help the boy to hold his own! Sacr......

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Categories: deterrence, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Stopping Time
...Written By: D. Collins 3/21/25 The essence of poetry is expressing one's mind. Able to freeze what's happening at that given time. ......

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Categories: deterrence, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Evaporating promises
...Diplomacy can be a fig leaf for surrender A wolf agrees to postpone the dismember If you want peace, prepare for war Peacetime is what aggressors use it for. Countries have interests, leaders h......

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Categories: deterrence, evil, fear, freedom, rights,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member - I'm Not A Kitty Cat -
... Frozen ornaments with fierce tears Swallowing the lie raw ......

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Categories: deterrence, conflict,
Form: Verse
Abolishing the Death Penalty: A Case for Humanity
...The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the ......

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Categories: deterrence, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Left of our Climate
... Enveloped in the essence of twilight's hue, Where dreams collide and realities seem askew. Let me take you on a flight, where words dance and emotions ignite. In the machinations of current c......

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Categories: deterrence, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Deliverance-Peace Giver
...May 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 1-4 Key Verse – Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance ari......

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Categories: deterrence, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member While I Whisper
...With tendencies towards modes abhorrent, I operate Hone deterrence to deserved carnal pleasure consolidate Intentional extension of potential paths provoke Libidinous grasping of bliss......

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Categories: deterrence, analogy, betrayal, christian, conflict,
Form: Acrostic
A Tricolour Tribal President
...A Tribal Tricolour President Welcome Lady President of hills Unknown to world; till other day Miracles happen in a flash Just as Draupadi in Mahabharat Madam Draupadi enters Raisina hill......

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Categories: deterrence, cool, dedication, dream, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgiveness
...If it were to be foe, I could bear it; He was my friend; Why should he betray me? In public that too; at the end; I kept him aside like a bone separated from meat, Avoided the rarest of places whe......

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Categories: deterrence, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Terror-
...Terror When I thought of the terror Once I sat engaged and freighting Much I marveled the splendid scare Deep into that darkness fearing On that day my soul grew lonely Once upon a m......

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Categories: deterrence, analogy, fear, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Oh Ukraine
...A sadness appears on the face of a nation as tears fall like rivers a’flow Midst rubble and death with dreams slowly shattered, where blood coats the fields draped in snow So gallant ......

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Categories: deterrence, war,
Form: Rhyme

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