War Rhyme Poems

Place my head upon your shoulder
Wrap me in Your warm embrace
Chase away these premonitions 
Grant me, Jesus, saving grace

Will you let me feel your presence?
Bring...

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Forgotten memories;
Abated distant dreams;
How do you know?
You’re a gathering soul; 

Quiet mouths spoken whispers;
Enraged emotions atop the raptures;
Where do you go for peace?
When war is...

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whistles blare
gun powder in the air
lead pours overhead
I can't wait to feel my bed

I line up my rifle 
breathe and squeeze
my orders are to strife
I...

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first loves false flame burned way too hot
and left me nothing but the want
for fiery passion to remain
to keep me bound in love's pleasure-pain

like chasing...

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Honesty versus Lies
Love versus Hate
Respect versus Contempt 
Real versus Fake
Peace versus Conflict
Compassion versus Heartless 
Kind versus Cruel 
Calm versus Violence 
Why are these wars we're...

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If intent and actions
are cause and effect
and influence the future
what you give is what you get
and yet
what about children
caught in the crossfire
when very young
murdered in...

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I didn’t want to light the flame,
But damn, you handed me the match.
We played a bitter little game—
Now neither one can scratch the scratch.

I offered...

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After 22 hours in planes and a ride on the London tube
our adventure in England had begun…
We met Bryan, Ali and Ava at our hotel…then...

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        Little Miss Tough
        Sat on her duff
   ...

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The seeds of war are planted 
in the soil of greed
within the garden of an unholy trinity.
Children of the poor sent off to war
to weave...

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He had to be mad
to invade Ukraine
his troops followed orders
they must all be insane
to cross the borders
an unwarranted attack
by a megalomaniac
bombarding innocents
who couldn't fight back
one...

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'England is a nation of shopkeepers'
was never said by Bonaparte
but it was those self-same tradesmen
who kicked Napoleon’s ****
and
when at Waterloo they met
as he won the...

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They told him, “Boys don’t cry or feel,”
“Stand tall, be hard, and never kneel.”
So he learned young to wear a mask,
To fake the strength they...

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She stood beneath the spreading tree
and looked out far, across the sea
with wide eyes wonder , to the sky, 
and softly wished to ask him...

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Elemental formulations of healing for the soul 
Consequential co-ordinations as we resist growing old 
Monumental calculations from a mind in the scientific cold 
Fundamental indignation...

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