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It'Ll All End In Tears
caught in the crossfire, of well-hidden snipers
that aim through the lens, of venomous vipers
paralysed by poison, blinded by spies
unarmed victims, enemies in disguise
shadows that taunt us, ghosts we let haunt us
vanish in the light, of...

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© Guy Mearns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caught in the crossfire, adventure, destiny, dream, emotions, happiness, joy,
Form: Epic



Blood Tainted Monday
Semi - collage dreams suddenly collapsed, 
While the chill of September's dawn crept into my veins, 
And the scent of the wind outside smelled with horror, 
Gunshots from ak-47 disturbed the airs' silence instead
Of the...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, city,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation
And told them they'd be escorted to...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, america, death, military, murder, native american,
Form: Narrative
Steel Bars
Tried to trace this man, 
studied the case and had my plan, 
a soul is whispering from somewhere
asking for help, I said, back off !!!

But a call is a call
it searches my soul and being,...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, abuse, addiction, bullying, father daughter, freedom, grave,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member NEW - Where is The Love Mamma - The Video

Synopsis:
A powerful video, lyrics and music that sheds light on the devastating impact of poverty, illustrating how it fuels crime, gang violence, and psychological trauma in communities around the world. Innocent people, caught in the...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, anger, angst, conflict, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And to maintain superiority they were prepared to fight.

The British saw...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, death, england, garden, history, murder, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Such a Cliche
I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caught in the crossfire, funny, humor, irony, language, literature, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Innocence Lost
We adults tend to lose ours innocence as the years unfold…
which is why the innocence of our children is a beauty we behold.

Children sing before they realize there even is a song.
They dance whenever any...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caught in the crossfire, innocence, violence,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Spirit Broken Again
Spirit broken again

 
                               ...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, bereavement, death, heartbreak, humanity, husband, violence, war,
Form: Narrative
Lost Innocence
We tend to lose our innocence as the years unfold
So the innocence of our children is a beauty to behold

Children sing before they know it's a song
Dance to any music that just comes along

Draw upon...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, children, innocence, murder, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Rain of Sorrow
In the land where skies once wept with grace,
Now echoes of war, tears stream down the face.
A family torn in the midst of strife,
Caught in the crossfire of two nations' life.

The father, once a pillar...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, emotions, family, hurt, miss you, sorrow, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Marla Ruzicka
Died in Baghdad, April 17, 2005

Nothing can stop her!
Not a  rocket
or an improvised
explosive devise
in spite 
of her untimely
death.
Just 28
and amongst 
the Greats.
Unyeilding campaigner
with unwavering faith
in something greater
than all the grenades
in the U.S. arsenal.
The greatness...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, death, history, loss, love, peace, people, places,
Form: Free verse
PLEA FOR PEACE
Beasts! Killers!
Soulless beings, devoid of empathy,
Ruthless in your actions,
Inflicting pain without remorse.

What sins have the innocent committed?
Caught in the crossfire of your wars,
Agents of destruction,
Where is your humanity?

You, architects of suffering,
Where is the dialogue,
In your...

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© Pius Seda  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caught in the crossfire, children, conflict, cry, dark, war,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Stole From US

In the twelth hour
We're pursuing generational wealth
From a generation who stole
Everything from us

The clock ticks closer to doom
But we're no closer to finding our own reality
When dreams are nightmares
Fueled by foreign wars

I thought it was...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, america, anger, conflict, fate, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Faces of War
There are many faces of war.
Some are seen daily,
on the news.
Others remain hidden from view.
They range far and wide.

The toothless old man
fighting to save his home,
a one room mud hut
and an acre of parched sandy...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, death, people, war, old, old,
Form: Lyric
On the Edge of Forever
Absorbed by happenstance, left flailing in the pouring rain,
As it dripped from the hanging trees,
The branches wept, stripped bare again,
Riddled with winter’s disease.
How scythes cut nerves when I saw no return
When I reached the perimeter...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caught in the crossfire, life, lost love, love, sad,
Form: Verse
Woe
Woe betide he!
Condemned from the very beginning to ultimate destruction
Preoccupied with recruiting souls with reckless abandon
With a mandate to wreck havoc on mankind before his time is done
The hour of reckoning for the mastermind of...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, depression, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Scheria
These waves crash hard into me like I am a greater force to conquer than the very shore it swore to forever be enemies with

The storm rolls in, a cavalry of raindrops assault my skin,...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, boyfriend, conflict, hurt,
Form: Free verse
All Those Loves Around Me
I've been here before
Caught in the crossfire of change
Scattered peices of a past long forgotten
I travel on with hope in my reach
Each day I grow a little stronger
I stand a little taller
I become the rock...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, change, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
My Struggle
Sometimes i just wanna cry
As i look up to the sky and ask god why
22 years and still can't figure it out
All the pain and suffering
With an endless reign of doubt
Decisions decisions when all made...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, how i feel
Form: Rhyme
Crimes against humanity
In a land torn by evils cruel hands
where innocence once thrived in golden sand
echoes now haunt barren torched lands
of children lost, tears fall in graves of pain

Fourteen thousand souls, too young to know
caught in the...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, dark, discrimination, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Calling Cupid
Atmospheres afire with devotional dynamic desire
I call scarlet jasmine crimson vermillion and ruby red
We are caught in a crossfire as we perkily perspire
And cupid carries our hearts to our betrothed bed

Angels dancing on choreographic clouds...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, love, passion, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sunflowers and Ceasefires
Another moment of silence
another flag half mast
another coffin dressed in colors
life's becoming quite a drag

Community garden filled with needles and tomatoes
tiptoe carefully keep the eyes wide open
the air is filled with bullets and black smoke
an...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, life,
Form: Rhyme
Wishing
Wishes.
Sometimes people wish
for things to benefit
themselves
which is all well and good,
I suppose

But what if you
wanted to wish
for something else
maybe for a friend
or for a friend you haven't
even met yet

But if I had just one wish
I'd...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, happinessworld, people, people, universe,
Form: Free verse
Caught In the Crossfire
Turmoil looms over private skies
Thick with fog firmly affixed to a bedroom ceiling
Though squinting escapes clarity's eyes 
Of love and hate in the brotherly cloud of feelings

Of flesh and blood consumed with rage
Over jealous tirades...

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Categories: caught in the crossfire, anger, brother, bullying, emotions, home, love, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain

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