Long Medals Poems
Long Medals Poems. Below are the most popular long Medals by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Medals poems by poem length and keyword.
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
medals, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Harvey Lee Kaneeble - Both Audio and TextThe oldest man I’ve ever known was Harvey Lee Kaneeble. And at the age of
one-o-six…(in nineteen forty-five)…
Some of those who really got around had speculated - Harvey might have actually been the oldest...
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Categories:
medals, faith, prayer,
Form:
Verse
The Verdict. NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...
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Categories:
medals, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
Boob Jobs and Bomb JobsBoob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
medals, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 11Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling...
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Categories:
medals, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Held AloftWe'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite...
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Categories:
medals, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
Launched from Penlee lifeboat station in...
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Categories:
medals, boat, death, people, rain, sad, sea, storm,
Form:
Narrative
WallowingSee, I've been wallowing in it for far too long
knee deep sunk in it even at times
eyes too marred by melancholy to see the way out
even as I gave in to the allure...
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Categories:
medals, desire, family, fate, growth, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
Soul Stance River - 3Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...
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Categories:
medals, adventure,
Form:
Epic
no heroes - WWI -
heroes?
there are none here, now ... ever ...
don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
beg their smiles,...
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Categories:
medals, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier, war, world war
Form:
Free verse
The EulogizerHe’s called the Eulogizer
He reluctantly accepts this moniker as our elder
A name for which he feels disdain
Since it conjures memories of unspeakable pain
He's lost a father, mother, sister and son
His nights sleepless realizing...
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Categories:
medals, death, eulogy, funeral, grief, military, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
He Was the BraveSat in his chair, the tv still on
He’s not changed the channel for so very long
The message on screen says a shut down’s ensuing
But press any button to carry on viewing
The remote, untouched on the...
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Categories:
medals, hero, remembrance day, war,
Form:
Couplet
Mind GamesThere were no gold medals to pin
and no starters gun to begin
but for sure we were out to win
the Baptism...
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Categories:
medals, friend, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Animal FarmHope to get back here soon, but I have been consumed with the care of my son who has cancer... this is an older write of mine done when my grandson asked if I had...
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Categories:
medals, allegory, animal, betrayal, change, conflict, society, symbolism,
Form:
Quatrain
The Genocide At Wounded KneeOn 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:
medals, america, death, military, murder, native american,
Form:
Narrative
The TrunkThe attic trunk, dirty, and oh so old
Had survived the many years untold
Sitting there midst the quiet dust
The hasp and hinges brown with rust
In the young girls’ mind she was compelled
To see what it was...
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Categories:
medals, family, history, identity, nostalgia, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Great Britain In No Particular OrderIn no particular order
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
But together Great Britain
I have never been to Scotland.
Wales or Northern Ireland as well.
That’s because I’m getting old.
And I’m not well, I’m ill.
Yet what I see...
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Categories:
medals, break up, courage, together, truth, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Fly Free and High: ButterflyFLY FREE AND HIGH: BUTTERFLY
The
BUTTERFLY
Flutters
By
A flying rainbow ...
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Categories:
medals, animal, butterfly, imagery, insect, , Lullaby,
Form:
Lyric
PrivilegePrivilege
by Michael R. Burch
This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who has written eloquently about the horror and absurdity of war in "Lessons for a Barren Population."
No, I will never know
what you saw...
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Categories:
medals, courage, hero, patriotic, thank you, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
A Total Monster, Part IEd was born forty-two years back,
and even since the age of ten
he’d looked with enrapt eyes upon
the heroics of firemen.
He wanted to join their number,
to rescue folks when in danger,
he’d go to their open houses,
to...
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Categories:
medals, crazy, culture, evil, hero, political, sad, society,
Form:
Narrative
HeroHERO
“As a boy you’ll go away to that far off distant war
And you’ll come back a man
Of which my son I’m so proud.”
So off to this war I went
To a place that...
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Categories:
medals, conflict, confusion, men, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
My Lai Massacre 1968Against communist Vietnam a war was waged
For almost twenty years fierce fighting raged
The French came first then the U. S. arrived
Communism had grown and it had thrived.
Most American soldiers served with distinction
Carrying out...
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Categories:
medals, war,
Form:
Narrative
The Camp of the Dead ChildrenEmily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die
Tommy of five years
Bone cancer eating his limbs
Unable to walk, this beautiful...
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Categories:
medals, beauty, introspection, love, sad, science, universe,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Victory In ChinaVictories In China
14th and 15th Nov 2015 are days for avid badminton fans the world over to remember,
Somewhere over there in Fuchou, who cares where exactly that is there in China.
All that matters to die...
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Categories:
medals, appreciation, celebration, dedication, encouraging, passion, psychological, sports,
Form:
Light Verse
Joy, Hope and Kindness"JOY, HOPE AND KINDNESS"
LIFE IS WONDERFUL
LIFE IS A...
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Categories:
medals, dream, happiness, happy, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme