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Skirmished Poems - Poems about Skirmished


Apocryphal
...I give my life to the wind; to the fossils, the spirit, and the earth. I leave my thoughts to the termites that linger beneath the sod, to the falcon in the firmament, and to the animals that mat......

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Categories: skirmished, absence,
Form: Free verse
Heist
...a strobe of flashing lights and the smell of smoking cordite filled the leaden night the brush brush brush of silent velcro and cocking guns and their knobbled sons (grenades) rolled like seve......

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Categories: skirmished, anxiety, courage, death, fear,
Form: Free verse



The Finality of Flesh and Sin
...The moon breathes motion, choreographed slivers of silver parting inhaled memoirs of you (blanketed in chips of rays) and me (daintied in drowned damsels) We drift together protected by laye......

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Categories: skirmished, i love you, longing,
Form: Free verse
Known Stranger
...Met on a journey shared nothing he just a coup d'oeil she gave noa glance he was too annoying creature she was quiet and feisty sparks flew but wasnt any fireeyes met, talks shared silences h......

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Categories: skirmished, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Conversation of a Nigerian With Nigeria
...Uncertainty, 'grand potentate', swathes my lure For renewed insight. I dropp upon My groove, primed, to settle my lot. Help! Modest citizen. Our battles, girthed For selfish intent, lu......

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Categories: skirmished, angst, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Efogi On Kokoda 1942
...Kokoda Efogi 1942.... The Japanese turned tail and headed north on twenty eighth September forty two. ... They'd struggled round on mountains fought stopped near Moresby by the few. ... Eigh......

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Categories: skirmished, warmen, men, mountains,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things