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Scorched Earth Poems - Poems about Scorched Earth


Scorched Earth
Written By: D. Collins 11/15/23 Just like I said before, I hear it in their voice. To avoid 10/7 again kill all Palestinian boys. Make sure there is no indication it will happen again. Just bomb the civilians until they turn Hamas in. Scorched earth is not what soldiers like me do. Keep doing it, I have a major problem...

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Categories: scorched earth, racism,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Scorched Earth Social Policing
a thousand tragedies paned onto the community headlines slashes the idle spirits the wound enrages them to seek out sadistic glee for the sake to title themselves as 'woken.' pitchforks and torches raised looking for the guilty farmer with swift words and stories all the crops seared in the name of the mindless chase for "justice." “no god or jury; only us” the next day arrives...

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Categories: scorched earth, allegory, extended metaphor, social,
Form: Free verse



Scorched Earth
I can feel this heartbeat, gentle rhythm deep under my feet, I can feel the blood seep… I keep it clean, I can feel the scorched earth weep, what have we done Dear God, this earth reeks… are the Kings playing for the throne as the destruction is nigh, the media alight I can feel this misplace...

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Categories: scorched earth, abortion, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Scorched Earth Polly See
Murder Hornets do not linger When they sting you with their stinger The GOP claim They have the best aim When hoisting their middle finger...

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Categories: scorched earth, insect, political,
Form: Limerick
Scorched Earth
I see the expanse now, I see the expense now, How we expand now, The sun never sets on Empire, Pitted, packed dry-cake gully Sere, stolid waiting the return Of precipitation The dearth of rain Brings Earth her pain until The dead creeks rejuvenation, There’s anticipation of CROAKS, HUMS, TWEETS, CHIRPS, That never come, Reign in your expectations ...

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Categories: scorched earth, allegory, destiny, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse



Scorched Earth
Days fill silhouettes shadow figures windowless skyscrapers scorched rust...

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Categories: scorched earth, fantasy
Form: Cinqku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things