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Salvo Poems - Poems about Salvo

Chivalry
...Coupled, they brave the storm and critical exposure forced by the storm to form a perilous enclosure. Under its salvo, they press shivering shapes together to limit the foray of such unholy ......

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Categories: salvo, caregiving, smile, spring, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation
...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation... Maternal grandfather of mine long since passed among the living; He left his Motherland before onset of Holodomor, a policy of the Soviet Union......

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Categories: salvo, abuse, age, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



A Meadow For Autumn
...A meadow for Autumn Forest, I lay me down to rest upon bed of moss. Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me lichen kenning myself as Rip Van Winkle except being repurposed as oldest li......

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Categories: salvo, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love and the Law
...(a story in trochaic tetrameter) Even a Prince must bend his knee to the lass who has won his heart. “Please be my bride, stay by my side forever - tell me we shall wed.” “My love a......

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Categories: salvo, boyfriend, father, love, poems,
Form: Free verse
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding
...I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding... the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens, after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity. How did the human species ma......

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Categories: salvo, africa, america, anger, april,
Form: Free verse



Drumfire Roars To Silence
...A dense sky-rubble trundled and spilled above the rooftops a runaway thunder ground along unseen tracks, a near salvo rocking mind-cradles, then a muted detonation over a far off storm bruised l......

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Categories: salvo, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Downed
...A thundering spacecraft arriving out of nowhere, a crashing, crushing presence hurled downward until lamps blink, doors tremble and roof shudders. I count seconds into an electric darkness. Th......

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Categories: salvo, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, Usurpation
...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation... Russian soldiers in general and Vladimir Putin in particular perpetrate outright injustice against Ukrainian population. Impossible mission to......

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Categories: salvo, abuse, anger, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Wake For An Alder Tree
...Last night the Alder so deeply rooted in the hedgerow was shot through by a bolt of climatic vulnerability. I heard the smoking gun, heard the clangorous salvo, the snap and break, heard the unfl......

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Categories: salvo, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 Pm
...Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM... eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives That seasonal occasion twill arise when darkness and light doth bring equilibrium between night and day rak......

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Categories: salvo, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Declaration of a Saint
...Communities are built on pioneer toil and generational links, with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks. There’s sporting ties and country hall, to form the social hub, and ......

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Categories: salvo, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Walks
...Six legs, two arms and often a tail It greets its own kind with an expectant wail They may well converse and they may form a pack But what do they keep in that very small sack There’s others th......

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Categories: salvo, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Only Aim
...Aroma I feel is thy blood Sucking thou until it made a flood My teeth rooting into thy hypodermis Fearlessness, braveness is what thou will miss Because I escaped from Transylvania To see thou, ......

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Categories: salvo, horror, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Declaration of a Saint
...Communities are built on pioneer toil and generational links, with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks. There’s sporting ties and country hall, to form the social hub, and ......

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Categories: salvo, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voice of Choice
...Middle of the crossroads, I’ve found myself in To my left stand the poets, holding their pens On my right are religions, kneeling behind a cross In front sit the atheists, debating......

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Categories: salvo, allegory, allusion, confusion, creation,
Form: Rhyme

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