Platoons Poems

Nazrul Song

...Theme: 
Nazrul Song : 
The eternal mid-fielder jersey, won't you have thy mercy?
The eternal mid-fielder jersey, won't you have thy mercy?
The ever-young heart, with a malleable intricate
Time t...
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Categories: platoons, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPlanting Garden Platoons

...25 people in a neighbourhood, could really
Impact the area for good' if ten 
Committed gardeners keen; could, gave advice to
Others, say a minimum of fifteen?  All within
A half-mile square.  Gar...
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Categories: platoons, encouraging, garden,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Balloon Seller

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Every day, the undercover soldier
Used to buy her big balloons
Red, blue, yellow, green, colourful and free
In those lazy afternoons

She let them fly with a smile on her face
Her laughte...
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Categories: platoons, child, childhood, fun,
Form: Rhyme

It Plants the Blunders

...Lazy rain mown lawn
plenty of falling light
You are my perfect pitch
you are my constellation

Heather on her heath
Damsels and dragonflies
Crossing the bar
There's a strange echoe
Platoons ...
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Categories: platoons, angst,
Form: Free verse

At the Foot of the Unknown Soldier

...At the foot of the unknown soldier
I heard them speak about the past
The generation born after the war
I heard them sing of warfare
Like children recite rhymes 
I heard their threats of war 
Ev...
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Categories: platoons, africa, angst, betrayal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHonoring Master Poe, Darkened Verses That Saddest of Truths Reveals

...Honoring Master Poe, Darkened Verses That Saddest Of Truths Reveals

The infinite black, oozing forth relentlessly unholy and unmerciful dread
with infinite sad cries from those once innocent and ...
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Categories: platoons, art, creation, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHalloween Hoopla

...Platoons of imps march up and down my street,

Threatening mayhem if I don't give them a treat!

There are cowboys, Indians and phantoms galore,

Holding me hostage at my own front door!

The...
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Categories: platoons, halloween, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJake's Ladder

...It was my birthday, only God knows the year
we played 8 ball, downed platoons of whiskey and beer 
After last call things got a little hazy
The next day my buddy Jake filled in the blanks.
Seems ...
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Categories: platoons, adventure, drink, endurance, people,
Form: Free verse

Memorial Day

...Memorial Day
Behind the pomp and circumstance
The celebrations and parades
Remember those who battled
The platoons and the brigades
Take some time to think now
Of the freedoms we possess
Of wh...
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Categories: platoons, america, community, inspiration, memorial,
Form: Prose Poetry

Chaos In the White House Jab Two

...when Democrats outliers gnashed
teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws 
pistol whipped and hashed 
tagged traitors who roared America 
went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed

when D...
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Categories: platoons, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

When Need Be

...When need be
violence must be scripted without diction
the whole agly truth must make the pugent
In our world, need I say third
peaceful matching is an obscure tale, abominable by all jurispruden...
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Categories: platoons, corruption, discrimination, satire,
Form: Free verse

Idol

...Idol is there seated plotting
cowrie shells baptized dollars
cow-hide suffocated with air
comfort women in their best
Cambridge fraternity with honors
commander with his platoons
sky-men in the...
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Categories: platoons, humanity, life, satire,
Form: Free verse

Chaos In the White House - Part 2

...like some sorority or fraternity house 
   left the sanctified righteous West Wing 
with powder puffs sans canisters 
   of pepper spray, whereby 
   most docile, humble, and liberal took a page ...
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Categories: platoons, america, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?

The Banyan Tree

...The Banyan Tree

I the Atlas carry a home 
My master strong for his
Children seven had built.
Shorts and skirts 
Thunder up my shoulders,
All hell let lose,
With their galloping horse-hooves,...
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Categories: platoons, children, father, feelings, games,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberThe Writer Working Hard

...This morning I put the apostrophe in
and this afternoon I took it out.
Oscar Wilde's comic wit
about the writer working hard.

Revision has lately become the sign
of seriousness, as in I revise...
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Categories: platoons, august, father, morning, snow,
Form: Verse

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