Short Finish Off Poems
Short Finish Off Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Finish Off by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Finish Off by length and keyword.
Sniper
Mortally wounded,
a soldier writhes
in pain,
crawls bloody
on the bloodied
earth.
From up a cliff
a sniper takes
aim again
to finish off a task
with neither rage
nor mirth....
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Categories:
finish off, conflict, courage,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Welsh Leftovers
I swallowed hard the feelings scorned,
to finish off my plate
But filled I was in sated form
a glutton postulate
I bit off more than I could chew,
with meat still on the bone
My stomach full of fiery barbs
—leftovers unatoned
(Villanova University: January, 2020)...
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Categories:
finish off, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Horton's
It wasn't much a lengthy walk.
It' only served my weight.
I'd walk as far as feet could walk
and all my muscles freight.
Ahead of me the final stop
Where coffee'd be my fate.
To finish off a feeble walk.
One suited for the bait.
Then rustled to a tired state
where all my hopes were high.
Arriving at a Horton's last
would bring a coffee sigh....
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Categories:
finish off, adventure, blessing, culture, dedication, destiny, devotion, drink,
Form:
Quatrain
Bait Ball
Freedom fish have devolved into a bait ball.
In tighter and tighter circles, they swim.
Picked off one by one by invisible things.
Nothing left but scars and stripes -graying meat of death.
Gracing the hazy floor of myth and history
Eels of anarchy grinning from caves.
Red crabs traverse purple mounds.
Black fins thrashing the amber waves.
Gulls finish off what's "far left" of sane....
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Categories:
finish off, death, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Ants
Mortally wounded, a soldier writhes in pain,
crawls bloody on the burnt,
bloodied earth.
From up a crag, a sniper takes aim again
to finish off a task
bereft of mirth.
On the ground, ants lug hefty loads around lumps
of seared soil, singed sand and
torched boulder splinters
to build again and again their anthill crushed
by blood-stained boots of the
slain and the slayers!...
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Categories:
finish off, animals
Form:
Tail-rhyme
To Destroy, To Build
mortally wounded, a soldier writhes,
crawls bloody on the bloodied earth
behind a boulder, a sniper takes aim again
to finish off a task so bereft of mirth
as worker ants lug hefty loads around lumps
of earth and boulder splinters
to rebuild an anthill crushed by bloodstained
boots of the slain and the slayers....
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Categories:
finish off, animals, life, people,
Form:
Tail-rhyme