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Jackboots Poems - Poems about Jackboots

Premium MemberPrison Wallpaper

...Encage us we are of collective souls
Display us in prisoned wallpaper as ghouls
Send us into these sepsis tanks, in tin cans 
in torture dungeons, in faraway lands                      
Mista...
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Categories: jackboots, judgement,
Form: Free verse

4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories: jackboots, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse



4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jackboots, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

...Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride 
                                to juicy jukebox jabber...
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Categories: jackboots, 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberForever Free

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  May America and Israel forever be free
    from sea to shining sea
       ~ of Nazis

  And should either country find itself drowning
    in an ocean of jackboots and hate
  May there be a...
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Categories: jackboots, america, freedom, international,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Tea Leaves

...Part 1



Genecia, was an angry girl. Actually, Genecia was always angry, 24/7, 365 days a year. This was even reinforced by her own mother, who told her often enough
Genecia, you were born angr...
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Categories: jackboots, emotions, journey, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTake a Stand For Freedom

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Take heed,  poet friends, you too, may be taken from your house.
Your money, your children, your lives maybe by our current 
government be sought.
Oh, those chilling words, “Your children ...
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Categories: jackboots, abortion, america, freedom, integrity,
Form: Couplet

Bird Black

...Blackbirds singing in jackboots

Women freshening and powdering 
in the Men's room

A child is born without square eye's
and cell phone permanently attached
to it's inner ear

Traversing foo...
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Categories: jackboots, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNot the Final Solution

...And so the soup’s, coming to a boil 
Very difficult, not to get embroiled 
Rumour has it, Hitler’s on the rise 
Goose stepping, in poetic disguise 
Jackboots kick open, doors of rhyme 
Acrostics...
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Categories: jackboots, abuse, allusion, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

You Can Go Anywhere From Here

...But you might not go
in exactly the way you might expect.
All you have to do
is think outside the box.
Step around obstacles
and open up your eyes.

The mind-police are everywhere now,
tappin...
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Categories: jackboots, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Before They Silence My Voice

...Before they silence my voice
Under jackboots and bone crushing dogs
I must set fort before dusk
As I am shielded 
By his gore
And crafted like Daniel
In the lions den
And Jonah in the whales g...
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Categories: jackboots, black african american, bullying,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberSplashing Paint On a Canvas

...Splashing paint on a canvas
   Is that visual art?
   Does it constitute anything resembling design?

A huge swastika as a backdrop 
for an Israeli Jew crushing a 
Palestinian Arab baby under 
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Categories: jackboots, art, creation, film,
Form: Free verse

Where Is America Going

...Where do the naysayers and wall-builders come from
Do they imagine their ancestors were spontaneously 
Dropped here one day, white of skin, superior of being
Did no one’s father or grandfather hav...
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Categories: jackboots, writing,
Form: Blank verse

Dead Men Tale

...We're hit, we're hit!! serge!
The thing goes skrrrahh pap pap ka-ka-ka
Skibiki-pap-pap and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom
Skya, du-du-ku-ku-dun-dun
Poom, poom

The whole platoon has been cut off
The ent...
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Categories: jackboots, anger, world war ii,
Form: Epitaph

Not a Gumboot In Sight

...If you wander into your local school or preschool,
What are the odds of spotting even a single pair of gumboots,
And does it matter if you find none.

If you think it no,
Then fast forward to th...
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Categories: jackboots, appreciation, baptism, blessing, character,
Form: Light Verse

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