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Escalation Poems - Poems about Escalation

Premium MemberInherited Jawbones

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I’ve taken up polishing skulls.
Not trophies, 
just my kin—
their sockets still 
echoing
what they aren't 
ready to hear.
Though it's only 
what they've said 
themselves.

I never knew 
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Categories: escalation, family,
Form: Free verse

Personal Note of Gratitude and Departure

...I wanted to take a moment to write this message, as many of you have been incredibly supportive and kind to me since I began using this platform. Your encouragement has meant the world, and I’m truly...
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Categories: escalation, hurt,
Form: Other



The in-between

...I am the unseen titan who stands with a height so vast. I am the bridge, the body, the threshold. In stories tales and film of some dull design. As ones passes leaving behind there shell upon there l...
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Categories: escalation, creation, death, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA smile that never fades

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The pale yellow sky, reminds me of a smile that never fades
From a greeting etched in memory, immune to words like cutting blades
The tall emerald trees are drawn toward the layers of light
A ...
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Categories: escalation, color, light, peace, sky,
Form: Rhyme

Robert Sherriff Middle East

...Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Middle East - Remember 9/11

The conflict in the Middle E...
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Categories: escalation, allah, child, death, evil,
Form: Bio



Escalation

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First eyes stared, and the air was filled with mystery.  
The senses grew acute; there was certain chemistry.  
Slowly they opened up, and things were progressive.  
Quickly things began to tr...
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Categories: escalation, addiction, adventure, africa, age,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPeacespeaker

...Pairing knives peppered the garden growing by the river.
Eerie sounds slid sideways into the lowering light.
Alfy and Alice were still out cavorting beyond the barn.
Children in dusty blue dresses...
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Categories: escalation, farm, peace,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberSolar Wrath

...Noble northern lights
     illuminate the 
nocturnal sky
     (a gift from the 
     Solar Kingdom):
an extreme G5 s*T*o*R*m
hammers a little 
blue marble

BLISSfully violent
yellow god-sta...
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Categories: escalation, dark, society, space, sun,
Form: Free verse

Divine Salutation

...Behind the guise of the masks & words
lay a truth concealed by clever nouns & verbs
Now a fire's lit to match the lies with truth
bearing an eternal flame lighting a wick with proof
From the tree...
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Categories: escalation, introspection, leadership, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive

...Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive

A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and ...
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Categories: escalation, anger, angst, community, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPEARL HARBOR

...P  Propelled into the war after tora, tora, tora.
E  Escalation arrives in Oahu, paradise explodes.
A  Amorous and hula skirts set aflame at once.
R  Reveal of a takeover plan, pot shots extreme.
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Categories: escalation, america, war,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberPeppermint Persuasion

...Bonjour mon amour
This is a peppermint persuasion 
Occasion excellent ecstasy 
Audacious illustrious elation
Spicy nicely give me more sweet
Freshly impress me please
Eroticlly stress me squeez...
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Categories: escalation, appreciation, beautiful, dance, devotion,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberChapter 134 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: For the Love of Holly

...Date:  Late  November 2049

Damian and Holly were conversing 
In her bedroom. Damian informed 
Her, "I want the babies names to
Be Damian Jahani,  Benachi,  and
Davon-Sahi."  She disagreed.
"U...
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Categories: escalation, clothes, emotions, family, father
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberChapter 123: Damian Delilah Mallory: the Punch Line

...Date:  April   2049

11 pm late night paradise. Some are
Conspicuously conspiring as to their
Next day. Damian's Household now
Consisted of his brother Sidney 
Sidney's wife Saderi their two so...
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Categories: escalation, beautiful, birth, black love,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberWorld War 3

...The territorial aspirations of the dictators
change in the course of aggressive adventure,
the geopolitical scenario through regional conflicts,
with the dreadful potential of global escalation.
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Categories: escalation, conflict, war,
Form: Free verse

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