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On Leave Poems - Poems about On Leave

Premium Member Altering the Landscape
... Hurling himself at his work passion-surpassing mission Setting aside sleep for nights on end fire growing with every line penned His epic assuming its desired shap......

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Categories: on leave, fire, grief, literature, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Army - Walter’s story - WW 2
... At the Spitfire factory love was found Not long before off to war I was bound To do my duty to God and all those Whose lives were dreadfully threatened by foes. I joined the army, th......

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Categories: on leave, absence, conflict, love, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Constructor of my Own Chaos
...This poem was written alongside the painting Pentimento by Sally Storch. I absorbed the image, beyond the capture - it soaked into my throat saturated, became the ever-after eye......

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Categories: on leave, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member 1970 Redux
...LAST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL As I was finishing my senior year in high school I knew I wanted out. I wasn’t going to college. No desire or grades. I was 18 after all, almost 19 Everyone asked, “wha......

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Categories: on leave, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dragonware
... There are great dragons in my life that came to me from long ago. They traveled far across the sea inside some boxes stored below his seat, safe for the flight's long trip- to be a ......

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Categories: on leave, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member IS THIS PINK HAIR CREAM WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME
... Six years ago, whilst touring England, we visited Anne Hathaway’s cottage, In Stratford upon Avon, I saw William Shakespeare’s ghost. Boldly I Approached him, Mr. Shakespeare Sir, may I use pa......

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Categories: on leave, star,
Form: Free verse
Prologue The Mall continued
... Besides noticing a few people who quickly turned away into the stores, (like a cockroach when the light switch is activated.) Penney also noticed that she had forgotten her bra. Well, she did......

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Categories: on leave, art,
Form: I do not know?
The Napkin
...God took a vacation when time had run out Rethinking his opus replanning devout His Angels in limbo the devil on leave Heaven a sublet sin now reprieved Faith worn and tattered the bibl......

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Categories: on leave, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Trans To Paradigm
...What do I project? Some of what I have Absorbed. Also, that which I have Reflected upon and have parts of rejected! I am aware there is a so-called church of The Devil – I am cognizant of the dri......

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Categories: on leave, appreciation, identity, life, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Best Day of Sheilas Life
...Sheila’s daddy was a sailor He came home on leave for a week or two each year Her mother had passed when she was a baby She lived with her aunt’s family Sheila was thrilled whenever Daddy came ......

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Categories: on leave, daughter, father,
Form: Narrative
All Hands On Deck
...Feedback - flight or fight – it’s due to enzymes. God put it in our brain, safeguard for crimes; fear is normal, a good thing many times. Facts fog up when fear uses its strong-arm. What is me......

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Categories: on leave, 11th grade, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Pick Yourself Rimas Dissolutas
...I am not here to please the world; If you don’t like that? Go on, leave; Whenever able then you should; Repeat after me: That’s enough; Got so angry you almost hurled not offering any reprie......

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Categories: on leave, emotions, feelings, introspection, self,
Form: Other
Ode To My Wellie Boots
...My Wellie boots are battered and all frayed at the top, They cost me fifty bob in C.D. Ellis’s shop. They have seem better days but they still keep water out and that after all is what Wellie ......

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Categories: on leave, memory, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Bunnie and Claude
...Author's note: This is not intentionally a historical piece, dear readers, but I thought I should probably add a bit of background info primarily for the benefit of my more international friends and ......

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Categories: on leave, humor,
Form: Ballad
Destiny's Play
...In a three -storey building, with great walls, Lived a girl who spent her day with dolls. One day, her family happened to leave in a car crash, Leaving her alone with their Ash. In their three- s......

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Categories: on leave, absence, bereavement, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

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