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Shrapnel Poems - Poems about Shrapnel

Shrapnel Poems - Examples of all types of poems about shrapnel to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for shrapnel.
alcides
...Slide, barrel, firing My life expiring Carve peace into a bullet so its the last thing on my mind 'Cause what remains in the sky is our stars misaligned The shrapnel from the meplat dis......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, 12th grade, allegory, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Seek Shelter
...Seek shelter if you want to live, when a tornado touches down. Swirling, spinning winds launch debris that's strewn through the air like shrapnel. When whirling winds out-roar a train, ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, angst, anxiety, death, image,
Form: Quatern
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle After experiencing a severe, albeit violent near lethal bout of irritable bowel syndrome (yesterday night August 30th, 2023) triggered courtesy dulcola......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Speaking the Waves
...Waves came in as big as buses, smashing on the seawall and exploding into clouds of watery shrapnel. I felt the sound inside of me, guttural, pushing up and shaping the word "whoosh" in my mou......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, sound, storm, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Typhoon
...G or T Personification Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Joseph May Written: August 22, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ Deep in the typhoon of my mae......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, animal, bereavement, environment, howl,
Form: Personification



Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
...If only the archangel Gabriel would visit and with holy host proclaim “Children of Creation, let there be no anchor for rancor in the Dead Sea, nor fuel for cruelty in Bethlehem; let people enjo......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, bible, paradise, peace, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Pentagram Poppet Pt 1
...You're so far away from me and I suck trying to go slow when I know I wanna snatch you up, bail you out, and take us to our new home It's hard when I'm alone in the shower - I can't hold you quite ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, girlfriend, magic, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagination
...Every second, every minute, every single thought about you Wonders of this still could be too good to be true Fluttering in my heart, palpitations go amiss I yearn for the touch of your skin, and ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Contest
... "No Contest" He’s a loser that’s for sure orchestrating a contest holds a mirror up to himself he’s a loser that’s for sure the heart explodes shrapnel hitting ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Alexithymia
...Alex is not an ordinary woman troubled with depression and autism struggling with transgender identity she lives in her own world a bubble of disorientation and discomfort unable to reach out to......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Quiet Fury
...A quiet fury gathered on Horizon’s distant side. Its merciless intensity was destined to collide with unsuspecting entities entombed beneath the ground all huddled ‘neath a canopy, immune to earth......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Not Just You
...Not Just You It’s not just you, having a bad time It’s not just you on your backside It’s not just you, struggling now It’s not just you, feeling neglected But only you can change it Only y......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bake Off Off
...It’s the Great British Bake Off And I’ve got to week six But I think it’s all over since They’ve dissed my bread mix. They said it was rubbish When I baked my plum duff And Mary said my cake ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, anger, food, humor, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul
... "Soul" In the place where there was a gap between the pines, a war game went wrong. they say, the satellites set it off, the intelligence was corrupt, putting ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, future, humanity, psychological, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member War and Children
...I tell a tale of younger days When I was just a kid I went to school in war time As many others did We would collect the shrapnel From the big guns overnight Most shells missed their target ......Read the rest...
Categories: shrapnel, age, boy, childhood,
Form: Ballad

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