Long Last stand Poems
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Categories:
last stand, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Vanilla Killer - trigger warningAnother shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie, please be there, and say you care.
I loved working alongside...
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Categories:
last stand, child abuse, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Mighty White the UsMighty White the US!
How ‘white’ whites are who worship Sun and think a tan line’s fine
though folks whose skin is darker tone won’t see a valentine!
Let’s say proof’s real, fear’s justified, and poverty breeds crime,
but...
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Categories:
last stand, character, family, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Last StandThe king was recruiting, He needed brave knights,
To protect all his wealth and his land,
And seek if he could, someone who would succeed,
And was worthy of his daughter’s hand.
A leader, a nobleman, brave to the...
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Categories:
last stand, courage, princess, soldier,
Form:
Rhyme
Peripeteia PersonifiedWhat mountain’s top holds truth’s last stand,
its vista viewed as life’s specific grandeur;
promised above earth’s horizon,
soon home to you, this present era’s raconteur;
prized perch upon and soon so manned,
spirits to...
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Categories:
last stand, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The ChoiceIt's not about love, not about hate.
It's the promise of two that one can negate.
It's not about dark, not about light
It is about peace found after a fight.
It's not about courage, nor about fear
It's less...
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Categories:
last stand, life, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Yon Interloper 16Arlis and Grunt left shortly after breakfast for all humans dog and pups.Otherwise the young man could not have slipped up unaware.In the day to day security
Of uneventfulness and the nipping yipping of the...
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Categories:
last stand, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
The Askance Chapter 3 Part 5bHow is one to passage through shall misfortune nay take root?
Is beyond my knowledge for never once within had I sat foot
It is the will of the Goddess Word, to be cursed and to be...
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Categories:
last stand, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
But Nobody CameAs the final child of the catacombs fell
your plastic knife driven into their heart
as they evaporated into the wind
you didn’t stop.
you kept searching desperately for a new toy.
someone to slice
someone whose fragments you could scatter...
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Categories:
last stand, games, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Last StandTHE LAST STAND
Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, and the Sue,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket,
Chocking for a breath of airs life's sustaining oxygen.
The beating heart of native drums, are stilled frozen,
In...
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Categories:
last stand, dark, death, grief, history, holocaust, inspirational, native
Form:
Free verse
Know Chained HaikuKnow (Chain Haiku)
One would think we'd know
Knowing, God, intimately
Gives understanding
Gains Loves true beauty
Life's expectant pregnancy
Carrying duty
Expectant, truly
Across the void's Great Divide
On the Greatest Horse
That Joseph could find
That Mary could whisper to
Ruach, be in thee
Give wings...
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Categories:
last stand, best friend, bridal shower, courage, dark, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Illegal ImmigrantsThis poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand.
It was the year eighteen sixty-eight.
The U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie...
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Categories:
last stand, history, immigration,
Form:
Blank verse
The Crazy StrangerDid this stranger appear for reasons unknown?
Just like that no good half-crazy other?
Another stranger among those he knows not
But alas he may be the others rugged brother
His mind, yes it wanders...
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Categories:
last stand, death, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
Government Show Shut Down December 2018Government (show) Shut Down December 2018
Messianic Don found tarnished appeal
trumpeted bluster thwarted
with muted (hip hip hooray) Democratic zeal
played (on microscale) like quashed
ill fated braggadocio big deal
bombast, sans General George Armstrong
Custer's last stand,
viz Little Bighorn, achilles...
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Categories:
last stand, america, anger, anxiety, grief, holiday, judgement, men,
Form:
Free verse
Each One An IsraeliteEach One an Israelite
Are parts of my poems would not put past
You from the beginning until the very last
Are beyond belief and have much doubt
May be hard to tell what they are about.
Noah put people...
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Categories:
last stand, humorous, religious,
Form:
Couplet
Ghost ShipGhost Ship
Benjamin Briggs a master, with three previous commands
Took over the ill fated ship, which was to prove to be his last stand.
The ship originally named the Amazon, was 103 feet long
She was listed as...
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Categories:
last stand, history,
Form:
Couplet
Eternal BreathEternal breath, A magic moment to let out a scream
To be standing before time certain there is nothing left to do but
This eternal breath, that comes from nowhere and clings to the soul...
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Categories:
last stand, absence, break up, conflict, fear, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Playin' CatchPLAYIN' CATCH
Mom and Dad would have the car packed the night before we left,
the station wagon filled with all the essentials we'd need for our
extended camping trips. Dad always made sure I had my ball...
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Categories:
last stand, dad, me, time,
Form:
Narrative
Dancing Bearyour eyes, black diamonds as dark and potent as your soul
your skin, the color of your sandstone mesas
your hair, a sacred silky, shiny, black mane
stranded with blue lapis, white shell, and red corral
Navajo princess with...
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Categories:
last stand, angst, beauty, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom Was the Death of MeWe rode into Nacogdoches, with our pistols and our Bowie knives,
Volunteers for Texas—we came to risk our lives.
Some of us had families, and others, just the memory,
And some of us they didn’t hardly miss in...
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Categories:
last stand, historydeath, star, death, freedom, star,
Form:
Ballad
Blood BrothersBlood Brothers
As one, in life, they tug their craft
Over the sun bleached sands
Salt air fills heaving chests
The tide beckons with friendly waves.
They float over foam, spray in their eyes,
Laughs mix with the great...
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Categories:
last stand, history,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Wounded KneeHistorically accurate, narrative poem
29 December, 1890 - At Wounded Knee Creek
A baby cries for its mother slain
and a way of life dies on that frozen plain.
Old Chief Big Foot and his small band,
for Custer’s last...
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Categories:
last stand, native american, war,
Form:
Narrative
Badge of Honor Hall of ShameI enlisted into the Army to protect and to serve the USA,
The badge I wear, the uniform I share each and every day,
Is the symbol of a freedom, a democracy, a land,
To which I do...
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Categories:
last stand, black african american, history, native american,
Form:
Narrative
Ode To My MotherShe was of this rich
earth and clay
a beautiful lass so full of life
and so wont at play
who used to water ski
...
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Categories:
last stand, death, dedication, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Gucci Man Iiword to the wise I came to get down & so you all frown
Gucci Man, Gucci Man, Gucci Man so here I stand with mic in my hand
I came to get down boggy down to...
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Categories:
last stand, angst,
Form:
Free verse