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Flak Poems - Poems about Flak

Sideways
...You practice and you train, you wrack your damn brain, you push through the pain, it still goes sideways. You’re up before dawn, give it guts and brawn, till the last ounce is gone, it stil......

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Categories: flak, endurance, military, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Volcano Maricano!
... Held it in, so strong. For too damn long! Bit my tongue, it bled blood-red. Cracks ran rampant, as the eruption spread, the pressure built. The head-cap exploded - Volcano Mar......

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Categories: flak, angst, anxiety, conflict, hate,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member emotional shrapnel
... invincibility had been a difficult pastime the flak vest of insecurity and coverups had managed to inflate anxieties and fears to the bursting point of impromptu explosion the festering bo......

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Categories: flak, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Food Missed
...The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end) Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagiol......

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Categories: flak, america, food,
Form: Rhyme
YouTube’s Shorties
...All these are subjects of YouTube’s mostly entertaining short videos Bet to win and dare the bucks Largest fish escapes, oh shucks! Splash for gold in running streams Fight, defeat the scammer ......

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Categories: flak, culture, internet, life,
Form: Rhyme



Reactions
...That's all she wrote, It was all my doing, The words she spoke, Heavy and looming. All my reactions, Of anger and pain, Because of her actions, On me, a stain. I tried my best, To get yo......

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Categories: flak, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rejecting Interjection
...In quiet tones, I speak out loud, Let me speak freely, without disruption, So hear me out, before you overcrowd. For when unbroken, I avoid corruption. Let me speak freely, without disruption, ......

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Categories: flak, conflict, language, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Am I Light
...Am I light or dispersed star Scatter or straight to all earthly uneven Whether the stray comet to unfollow Chaos or chord to sundry upheavals Mortal cry pebbles the enshrined path Luminious moon......

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Categories: flak, for teens, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanguard
...David sought a vanguard for revolution, The Black Panthers seemed the perfect solution. He built them a foundation, it employed his friend, Until she found fraud and met a quick end. Betty’s mu......

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Categories: flak, death of a friend,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Who's left but me - in Joe Bidens words
...I know I'm slightly losing it and Jill sees that now too, So all we can but hope for is to Bluster and to Woo. What If I sometimes falter with names or something more, Only Fox is bent on keeping ......

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Categories: flak, celebrity, humor, memory, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Ready Aim Fire
...Ready...Aim...Fire! In light of tension twixt brinkmanship rumbling one East Asian Tiger country otherwise known as "the land of morning calm," yours truly t'will invite "freedom foo fighte......

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Categories: flak, america, anger, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme
A Pat On the Back
...When you’re anxious ‘bout something, Just give it a crack And you might end up earning A pat on the back. For nerves can wreak havoc And fill you with doubt So you think you’ll be stuck With......

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Categories: flak, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Floyd's Lament
...Floyd’s Lament Why were you so harsh with me- Because I am black? Why were you harsh with me- To impose your flak? Why were you harsh and cruel didn’t you hear me cry? Why were you harsh I ask......

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Categories: flak, america,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Gerund Farming, Tilling, and Harvesting Illogical Weltanschauung
...Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung Twas accursed destiny since birth (maybe coded in deoxyribonucleic acid since time immemorial) alas and alack nascent em......

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Categories: flak, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Backlash
...The publisher of Roald Dahl’s books Thought changes should be made To make the books “inclusive,” But attention has been paid With many writers speaking out To criticize the plan (Despite the......

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Categories: flak, books, change, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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