Long Deserter Poems
Long Deserter Poems. Below are the most popular long Deserter by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Deserter poems by poem length and keyword.
Artists At The Vanguard
Tie my hands so I may not touch others with potent realities
Bind me from what transpires about ...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, future, poets,
Form:
Free verse
The Tragedy of Celestina, Part Ii
...It was two days before she lost them,
and an arrow slashed her small finger,
a small wagon train did take her in,
but a doctor found gangrene in her,
chopped her pinkey with barely a word.
Fever set in...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, absence, heartbreak, history, journey, loss, lost love,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Barstool Bandit
He’s a bandit on barstool a writer in possession,
The recreation of life lived hating his self image A rocks on cause he just got his rocks off,
That’s all he ever chases,
A...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
The Deserted American
If anyone can help me with work I am a single father about to collapse. No jobs anywhere around to pay rent. Which is coming up soon. Now as you all missed the rhyme king...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Be Encouraged---
Just, just be
Just be encouraged
No matter how you feel
I know the feeling is real
Be encouraged
God's got you...
It's Okay
Jesus is here
Don't be dismayed
Stop being afraid
In a flash...
God got your back
Just, just be
Just be encouraged
No matter how...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, analogy, appreciation, cheer up, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Prodigal sheep
Jesus, you say bring home my sheep
You say be a shepherd like perfect You
I say my sheep have gone prodigal
They have my credit card, I say resigned
At least they buy cheap wine on my dime
They’ve...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, addiction, depression, drug, forgiveness, hurt, loneliness, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Fault of Thyself
Fault Of Thyself
For every man there is reward.
For every man there are consequences.
Which kind of man are you?
For the brave man, there is honor.
For the cowardice man, there is desertion.
For the stone man, there...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, death, dream, happy, slam, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Catching a Kitty
I’m an animal lover, especially of cats.
Daughter Donna admits they’re better than rats.
I had but one kitty and now I have six.
We need to catch them, to give them a fix.
Too many cats!
Granddaughter Hannah would...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, animals, cat, , cute,
Form:
Light Verse
The Ons and Offs of Love
This morning I rose to a somber beginning.
I watched a season of my life pass,
And beheld the dissipation of sentiment.
I despised the junction known and unwelcome,
And I tried to discern its meaning.
Is it to repudiate...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, lost love, love
Form:
Romanticism
Strayed Sheep - William Holman Hunt
Straying away from the straight path
in search of sumptuous grass,
Me and my friends meander to the mountain top
on a crisp clear sunny day,
The cottony white clouds mirror our soft tufts of wool,
The sea...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, animal, appreciation, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Break Free
You may cry a river
Sleep with your heart’s shiver
You may dream a kingdom in afar
It can twist your mind
For love you cannot find
You’re drowning from the loneliness of love
If you don’t want me here
Just tell...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, lost loveme, may, me,
Form:
Free verse
It makes William more Desirable
William shows his absolute integrity and empathy when he says
“If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead.
How can I write to you after what I’ve done?
What I’ve seen?”
Sure, he is a deserter,...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
My War
There is a war
And I am one fighting within
A bloodshed I hadn’t known to befall
Without the cause or the means
Blindly following what others do
I fought gallantly and was commendable
What I’m fighting for, its like I...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Splendid Times
Strain not your eyes in the darkness of loneliness
For the deserter has forsaken you
His face is lost in the whirlwind of time
You feel nostalgic about the past splendid times.
Your craving for bygone days to return
Those...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, allegory, dedication, loneliness, missing, solitude,
Form:
Ghazal
The Deserter
better to be a deserter
than to go down with this ship
better to listen to the voice inside one’s own heart
than to follow the lies & bullshit
better to see the wars for what they are
than for...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, life,
Form:
Free verse
So Sorry Am I Lord God-
In the busy day lit crashing;
So sorry I am Lord God;
Vigorously relinquishing the dawn;
I am a deserter ashamed My Father;
So sorry I am Lord God;
I talk to my Father;
Holy Forgiver of my dire sins;
Loudly in...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness,
Form:
Munajat
Two Face Words
Two Face Words
Quietly means quiet, silently so still
Feeling the unfelt now so real
Willing the belief to believe in your will
Finally knowing that you love to kill
Completing the cycle as you're replaced
Deserting the deserter as memories...
Read More
Categories:
deserter, betrayal, deep, heartbreak,
Form:
Couplet