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Roll Call Poems - Poems about Roll Call


Roll Call
Many moons ago - A boys school in Northern England The Morning Role Call. Names are bellowed with a haughty distain followed by a subdued: 'Here sir.' "Andrews Ashforth Diamond (silence) Donaldson Bartholomew Bloggs Bracegirdle Ingram Higgins Jones" .......etcetera Teacher in an exasperated tone: "Diamond!" - more awkward silence; some tittering from the back row. I was not there I had left for good earlier but not before leaving a dead rat on the Principles chair. I never...

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Categories: roll call, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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"Roll Call" Where are your soft waves to drown in when I think of you are they withheld and our names suspended marked on some banal roll call written on a piece of glass in some cold cave (LadyLabyrinth /2020) Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) Abbado https://youtu.be/Jufn41KMU3w ...

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Categories: roll call, romance,
Form: Romanticism



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When the forests are felled By our swallowed words Hungry ears will burn~ For an owl to say who 8/29/2019 Silence Poetry Contest Sponsored by Silent One...

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Categories: roll call, bird, environment, silence,
Form: Free verse
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Dust the stench of fear from bloodless heroes laid to rest on muddied mountain path forgotten in the depth of passing sunsets remembered in survivors tortured wrath carrying the numbed and hidden horror through the guilt of living’s sunlit day fingers tracing faces on a stone wall where they knell to weep – but seldom pray. Heroes – now alone – in endless...

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Categories: roll call, soldier, war,
Form: Sonnet
Midnight Roll Call
International relations clerk on duty enters In her hand is a list of nations from Africa One by one she shouts out their surnames The assembly monitors gives her feedback confirming presence or absence that day Nations present she gives a golden ribbon The ones absent she paints with red crayon Punctuated with cheers by loyalists she shouts; “Libya” He is admitted in hospital...

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Categories: roll call, africa, leadership, satire,
Form: Personification



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Who among you is named Clark? "I am!" said the meadow lark Who here bares the name of Pearl? "I do!" said the eastern squirrel Who's a mean old Visigoth? "That's me!" said the lazy sloth Who's the biggest silly nerd? "Me!" said the bee-eater bird Whose favorite candy is a Necco? "Mine!" exclaimed the tokay gecko Who forgot to wear a tie? "I did!" said...

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Categories: roll call, animal, bird, kids, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Last Roll Call In Memory of Sgt Greg Moore
In Memory of Sgt. Greg Moore: "Last Roll Call" By Laura Bonneville Delacroix I wanted you to help me climb the tree I wanted you to be proud when you looked at me I don't know what happened Or where you did go Please oh Please Momma say it ain't so What do you mean I don't know what you are saying… It...

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Categories: roll call, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
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Roll Call ______________________ I heard the final roll call, saw a 21 gun salute, as Soldiers stood in unison for something absolute. They came to say goodbye, with honor and such pride as they stood there in uniform in each other to confide. Another good one is gone, a soul laid to peaceful rest thanks and praise and metals bestowed upon their chest. The trumpets softly playing, as the...

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Categories: roll call, change, death, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Roll Call
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Categories: roll call, allegory, angst, childhood, funny,
Form: Free verse
The Last Roll Call
Get ready, it's here, like a thief, hidden so near. Into our homes, taking our dreams, something is wrong. Give, give, give, what we don't have, sure, we're mad. Taking for granted, time heals all, but in the meantime, our economy will fall. Trying to get back, what we once had, will be just a memory, how sad. Starting all over, with the clothes on our back, while greed is dominate, their band aid attack. The eye of...

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Categories: roll call, confusion, life, people
Form: Narrative
The Roll Call of the Brave and the Honorable
Watching the roll call of the brave and honorable Remembering those of whom I would have never known Their sweet faces fading from the winds of life Never forgotten, their blood flowed for justice and freedom. The remnant of what is left lives on in the faces of those who still fight for it....

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Categories: roll call, life,
Form: I do not know?

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