Long Flak Poems
Long Flak Poems. Below are the most popular long Flak by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Flak poems by poem length and keyword.
Enola Gay
Enola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
flak, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
flak, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
flak, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Twin Towers Disaster Or a True Friend Part 1
Touching my hand was a wet doggy.
Whatever my fate was going to be,
My dog, my hero would be with me,
If he was in terror it did not show,
I was the weak one that I know.
With...
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Categories:
flak, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Young and Strong
Young and Strong
She was young, she was strong
Working cleaning all the day long
So much to do, but she carried that load
So concerned about everyone, at Kenmore road.
Then we moved, to Strandfontein we came
A new challenge...
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Categories:
flak, bereavement,
Form:
ABC
At the Mercy of Interminable Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
At the mercy of interminable anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating
one after another panic attack
analogous being bombarded with flak
worse fate then death
or being tortured on the rack,
no mortal experience compares
regarding psychological paralysis
just ask...
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Categories:
flak, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Rat-A-Tat-Tat
The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a...
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Categories:
flak, society, violence, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Combat
I remember that day and never looking back
I said goodbye to my family and grabbed my duffel bag
Im off to be a hero just like my grandfather and my dad
Im going to fight for America...
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Categories:
flak, america, anger, bereavement, betrayal, bullying, character, conflict,
Form:
I do not know?
One Step From the Fire
One Step from the Fire
Martha lounges in her rocking chair book in knotted hand in her studio
On the wall a poster of Chipperfield Circus whom she had wanted to join
Just above a small marble statue...
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Categories:
flak, age,
Form:
Free verse
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 emasculation abominable barrack
emergent deus ex machina,
one common Joe biden his time
for no particular
rhyme...
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Categories:
flak, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd grade, abuse,
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 fighters"
tubby regaling with a jubilant aire
total mortal Kombat
levels threat of human warhead
bomb dubbed...
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Categories:
flak, america, anger, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part2
diametrically opposing forces miscarriage
and abort, cancel and retry to upend Vanity Fair
where trump defiantly makes an en rode
gauging Bernie sanders troopers as “enemy” phalanx
...
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Categories:
flak, abuse, america, bullying, change, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
Bloody Omaha
Midnight June the 5th 1944 me and my buddies departed Weymouth and put out to
sea
To smash through Hitlers eastern wall to liberate Europe and make her once again
free
We knew some,most of us wouldnt...
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Categories:
flak, death, history, loss, places, warday, me, beach,
Form:
Rhyme
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 fagioli.
Meat lover’s pie, sword fish, big...
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Categories:
flak, america, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Call it Bazball or just Test Cricket
We knew from the get go after Brendon accepted the call…jettisoned old school for new cool..the Kiwi on the balcony who looks like he’s smoked some bud..having a kip..let slip..quick to quip..almost let rip..did appall..won't...
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Categories:
flak, england, sports, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Dan the Hero, Part V
...He left here there, and she had a stunned look,
so did the first responders standing by,
no one had ever heard Dan talk that much,
much less express the feelings deep inside.
Needless to say, Tanya caught lots...
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Categories:
flak, appreciation, character, conflict, hero, hope, perspective, uplifting,
Form:
Epic
On the Outside Looking In
I was talkin' with the Lord when He said to me
"Are you okay? Need some company"?
I told Him that even with all His creatures
I couldn't find one that had my features.
"Well, no need to...
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Categories:
flak, funny, husband, loss, wifeme, garden, me,
Form:
Couplet
The B-17 and the Me-109
Somewhere over Europe
A B-17 flies
Strafed and damaged
In her enemies skies
The flak has taken
Its toll on the plane
This crew so brave
In this theatre of war campaign
Many hours have passed
With no sight of the channel
Only land ahead
Is...
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Categories:
flak, anniversary, friendship, history, life, people, places, war
Form:
Rhyme
Purgative Debacle Debilitated Me December 18th 2020
Purgative debacle debilitated me December 18th, 2020
Hoop fully adequately explains
source of odoriferous dry rot,
ye possibly smell, I jot
within this reasonable rhyme
without putting Johnny on the spot
my absence NOT attending fellowship,
today December 20th, 2020
albeit remotely, cuz...
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Categories:
flak, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, caregiving,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mistaken Who Mistook
No citadel’s too tall for mortals like you.
Even acclivity of mounts fear of bipeds like you.
Adam’s ale in its ampleness has lost its meaning.
And only with your condonance,
do the flowers un-bud and birds do...
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Categories:
flak, angst, natural disasters, nature, peace,
Form:
I do not know?
Fried Chicken, Made of Awesome
I think it is time that I take a stance
on an issue of supreme importance,
I’ve stayed quiet on it for far too long,
to keep living a lie feels so wrong,
I hope this doesn’t sound hokey...
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Categories:
flak, appreciation, bird, celebration, food, fun, humorous, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
flak, celebrity, humor, memory, parody, political, satire, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
War Dog
In thirty-eight my German Shepherd, loved to learn new tricks
He’d run and catch them in mid air whenever I threw sticks
No other German Shepherd dog could ever hope to beat
The way my Benji caught those...
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Categories:
flak, dog, hero, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Space Outlaw
3.28 parsec out
We’re making an impromptu flight change
Windstar is gonna have to make
a low-grav burn and turn
towards the Big Rocky asteroid belt border
It’s a risky nav maneuver for sure,
but every space outlaw has faced...
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Categories:
flak, adventure, science fiction, space, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Gain Perennial Wealth
Catch the latch under the thatch
Roof within the hut
In your village where you snatch
Every chance to balance the gut
That propels your vision
To embrace the trace of the future
You believe lies in the diffusion
Lying at...
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Categories:
flak, poems,
Form:
Free verse