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Sentries Poems - Poems about Sentries

Snow of My Silence A Prisoner’s Lament in Siberia
...In the frostbitten belly of Russia’s spine, Where the stars are mute and the sun won’t shine, A man with chains and a shattered past, Counts the heartbeats that may be his last. He once wore la......

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Categories: sentries, allah,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 2034-The Fall of Big Brother
...Humanity suffers, totalitarianism reigns, Vanity crushes our personal gains, Mankind is weeping and working as slaves, Those who refuse are remembered in graves. This is the fate of the people ......

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Categories: sentries, anxiety, courage, destiny, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Story of Eden -- A paradise lost
...A garden of love and hope, woven with silk and ethereal threads Handcrafted by the creator, with unmatched skills and snowy beards The Divine, seated on high, with golden hairs aglow, The garden ......

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Categories: sentries, art, character, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I, the Mighty Mountain
... Eons ago I felt my birth, as my two parents collided, and I arrived -crumpled and folded upward rugged and jagged with a body of ever-changing rock. Unlike the ordinary human child, I don’t ev......

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Categories: sentries, mountains,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed
...I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed, Down shaded alleys where our memories whisper and stand guard like stone sentries, I no longer wish to hear those son......

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Categories: sentries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Anomie
...In a never sleeping metropolis, In the dungeon of a room, My days and nights are locked! I am a traveler on a street, with no end in sight, But just the bustle of the moving crowd, And a handfu......

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Categories: sentries, betrayal, discrimination, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If you asked I would tell you of my secrets
...If you asked I would tell you of my secrets Soft furry things that comfort weary souls Harsh thorns rebuffing prying doubts Stoic sentries peering through stone eyes Cold lips that scorn the warm......

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Categories: sentries, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Prisoner to Choices
...Freshly liberated from an overgrown bushy trail, I saw myself skimming waist-deep in Lavender, Sentries to the rear, Hollyhocks, and Foxgloves, Bougainvillea to the left and, to the ri......

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Categories: sentries, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beth And Happiness
...Beth And Happiness * Beth lay in her bed Waiting for a good night Sleep to begin. * Her adorable feline Guardians Sophie and Kisa Her endearing canine Guardian Meika They are with Beth keep......

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Categories: sentries, love, pets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sienna in Season
...I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors, An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers. I worked daily at this irresistible p......

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Categories: sentries, autumn, beautiful, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Trail of Moonlight
...I was an experienced, intrepid hiker, who had wandered the Appalachian Trail, As warm gold regularly wanders a blue world, focusing on each vibrant detail. I had tramped so many interesting paths......

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Categories: sentries, beauty, color, fantasy, friend,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Marigold Morning
...Twinkling stars were receding rapidly, as I had always known they would, When rouge sun touched the eastern sky, to color a whole neighborhood. The timid alabaster moon was in hiding, taking with......

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Categories: sentries, appreciation, beautiful, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Silent Wisdom
...When I walk among the trees with their branches stretching high into the air I think of all the wonders they have seen…all the wisdom stored in there. In all the years they’ve spent listening as ......

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Categories: sentries, nature, tree, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Missing In Action
...I was once an idealistic young soldier, who was very new to the occupation, Trying to preserve freedom, and way of life, like the golden sun, at creation. Yet, the times were very troubled, becau......

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Categories: sentries, fantasy, friendship, humanity, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member This Morning's Thoughts On Silence
...There are a multitude of reasons why I like to take a walk before the sun appears…before the neighborhood’s awake. One has to be the silence…out here walking totally on my own Is the first place......

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Categories: sentries, silence,
Form: Rhyme

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