Short Last Stand Poems

Our last stand
Last chance
For a reprimand
Yet none came
Good for there’s not
Anyone to blame...

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To kill all the Taliban clan
We’ll dig up a best in west plan
General Custer’s
Old memory musters
A last stand in Afghanistan...

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Evil's domination undisturbed will remain unless goodness decides to make its stand!






(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
         19 July 2016...

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with an iron cross on my chest
I will stand my ground looking strong
and it seems like no one sings my song
that’s okay being alone is best
after it's over I can finally rest...

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You gave us food and we took your land

It's not right to make promises grand

  We took all your stuff

  Till you said enough --

And gave General Custer his last stand...

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none.
be gone.
come again and
bring a tin of goodness.

some day, maybe tomorrow.
never say again, you win.
I lost, the wind.
the courage to run and 
now I stand , last stand,

some way, I will find ;
the wind again....

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Out of the bank I ran.
Money and gun in hand.
Bumped into a marching band.
Kids let out a scream.
A flash back from my dream.
Frown on my face,
as cops gave chase.
They screwed up my plan.
In the alley I made the last stand....

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i'm a soldier fighting in a war death all around how can this be my sargent blood is all over me!oh god he is dead that makes me in charge of my squad!we are connered we are all going too die westart shooting them for america we all cry as the bullets fly!...

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I'm going into this not knowing what I'll find.
But I've chose to follow my heart and not my mind.
And if I fail at least I gave it my all.
During my last stand, my final battle call.
but if tomorrow comes and I happen to die.
To those of my past I say good-bye....

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War Cries going up and down
through the valley of death
and the trail of tears all around

A golden eagle flies overhead
as each of his warriors return to 
their bedsnn

He is a chief, a leader of man
and the future of a tribe that will one
day be Custer’s Last Stand...

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Sometimes I wish I was someone else 
No one out there has my back 
Most of the time I don't really care 
Pondering were I go from here 
Stick to what I know till it's over 
A final push to the last stand 
It's painfully simple but no one can see
What the present has in store for me....

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arrows flying by
riding to the other side
home is just ahead







for consideration:  Michele Nold-Godleske's  "Music To Your Pen" contest
 the song "Goin' Home" from Neil Young's "Are You Passionate" album......
...the story of Custer's Last Stand...

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lying in the pool of
water
blood.
a body thats been decaying
far before its demise
razor blades
and words that cut just as deep
standing against ivory paper
see the world through my eyes
this bathwater
so far from clean
its spoiled now
one last stand
you ruined me
throw baby out with the bathwater....

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Glittered Black
Don't look back
Catch me as I fall
Take this knife
Fade my life
We've been through it all
One last stand
And they'll know us forever
Take my hand
Immortality together
This rain of blood is falling down
We're made of so much more than this
One last fatal kiss
Fade to black
Don't look back...

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Dying alone on foreign ground,
death gripped his blessed hand

Raging hard across the pond,
Manhattan, his last stand

An oak to fall on alien soil,
all seeds to heaven thrown

His words cast free into the dark,
that ‘Good Night’ now his own

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
       'Dylan Marlais Thomas'...

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When a horse is on his knee
Don't shoot him till he stands
One so proud, a final plea
Is his to stay your hands
 
Will you drag him when he's dead
Should you tear his flesh and mane
Leave him there to shed
His glory in the rain
 
For when the clouds have risen
His figure leaves his voice
Painted in the prison
Of life without a choice...

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Down by the pond,
you know, the one behind the bare hedgerow,
a pond dug out as a feature,
for condominiums to surround,
as if they just had to have,
a basic single nozzle fountain,
and an ornamental plastic swan
just to off-set the isolation
and disassociation
that comes with
the last urban hold-out
you will ever own or know....

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Why we always look away
From what our eyes desire to see?

Then we think
‘I should have…’

We look back
And we can’t see

It walked away -
We let it be

Why it always walks away
When we want to give a try?

We look back every day
And we pray for one last stand

Then we think back in regret
‘Why i hadn’t…’
Each time we cry

One day we will forget-
The day when we die...

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When Sitting Bull and Colonel Custer were locked in mortal battle,

   And with arrows flying and heard was the muskets' fearsome rattle,

      Finally surrounded and when all hope was lost, Custer was heard to say,

         "You must be bull sittin' me!"  Proclaiming with his last breath, "Foul play!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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1.
tandoori chicken - 
sailor's red sunset at night
is tastebud's delight

2.
chicken on the edge -
a tandoori spiced morning
a fragrant warning

3.
colors like dusk's flame -
the tandooried chicken flesh
drips taste on the tongue

4.
love wants an encore -
tandoori taste (a woman's lips)
a cute chick's last stand


Brian Johnston
22 of September 2018...

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the only light from a crescent moon
darkness covers what used to be
what I once wanted slips away
a truer heart has now found me

silence grows like a young tree
roots far north in desert sand
what I had has shriveled and died
as you make your one last stand

comparison was what you sought
curiosity made you look
lustfully you took a chance
then closed the chapter on that book...

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The raging waters will soon cover this mountain,
My last resting place,
No salvation crashing through the dust clouds
I scream aloud at our own stupidity
Ashamed at my fellowman
Warnings unheeded
Lessons ignored
No last Stand
The debt is finally settled
You who survive must make amends
If you dont do right by God
A price will be paid
And perhaps your children 
Will one day write this same message....

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The Darkness fills me
illuminates fingertips
my eyes turn jet black
our dark hearts shatter like glass
your skin is cold blue
once vibrant soul matches suit
paralized with fear
we dance on our graves
holding sober hands
childrens laughter fills my head
flashing dark crimson and white
the grounds set for our last stand
our features are blank
as our last breath expires
embrace and explode...

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The wound has long closed
Not a scar, not a trace
Yet pangs of pain are felt
From memories I could not erase

Time has not dulled
The emotions of that day
When you’ve decided then
That with me you can’t stay

The Lord took you from me
That much I understand
But why couldn’t you fight
And win your last stand?

I still see your smile
And I yearn for your embrace
You’re forever in my heart
Only you can fill that space...

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The Bridge to Nowhere

Halfway across the river it stands as heavy feet support remaining span.
No longer the beautiful and sturdy gateway path for man to seek the other side.
The bridge to nowhere makes last stand before it joins its shadow in deep waters.


© Sandra M. Haight 2015 
   All Rights Reserved


~4th Place~
Contest: Three Line Poetry
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi
Judged: 03/17/2015




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