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Skirmishes Poems - Poems about Skirmishes

Memorial Day 2025
...Day to remember those who perished In wars and skirmishes abroad Let their images be cherished By those who knew them from the squad To pin a pennant of "Old Glory" In earth where heroes lay i......

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Categories: skirmishes, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member friendly fire
... there had been many battles raging mostly within and with himself alter Egos diffusing who was friend or foe to the point of dissolution of Self like a soul grinder on an impossible mission ......

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Categories: skirmishes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



The Lie
...The Lie I am an insect waiting to be squashed! I stare hard at the ground as if fascinated, enthralled by it while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt wait to gouge and burrow out any self-belie......

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Categories: skirmishes, anger, anxiety, father, father
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Epitaph-Unraveled Words
... trickling streams   enlist fingers stroke translating silent stares script air bubbles soul skirmishes dying   and breath twitches her amort jabs shatter blind eyes soft breaths   lin......

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Categories: skirmishes, silence, words,
Form: Free verse
Yankee Doodle
... In 1755 a British army medical surgeon Richard Shuckburgh, while campaigning in Rensselaer New York, penned the nursery rhyme Yankee Doodle. This was used to mock the Colonists by the......

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Categories: skirmishes, independence day, military, nursery
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Minding Other Peoples’ Affairs or Businesses
...Minding other peoples’ affairs or businesses Some villainous pundits or vile hyenas are the best In simply doing just that, comrades. They ignore Their own problems. They leave a huge door Ajar, ......

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Categories: skirmishes, anti bullying, business, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Year
... A year has gone by, let it go, Embrace the new year as it comes; Past skirmishes, and slights, let go, Let’s greet happiness in our homes; Another year is upon us, Amidst new star......

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Categories: skirmishes, celebration, farewell, hope, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Lament of An Unbiased Breeze From a War Field
...Cutest prattles of children I adore Are now the loudest cries I bear Oh, No! The grieves of these abandoned souls The worst sounds I have ever heard Mesmerizing songs of endemic ......

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Categories: skirmishes, angst, conflict, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Is My Steed
...Where is my steed the king asked his wife She kind of knew but she valued her life She lied a bit guiding him to an unsuspecting patron Steed joined her at court, dressed as a pretty matron. St......

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Categories: skirmishes, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Wife
...Whether I got married by my choice of courtship and romance, Or given an unknown bride with arraigned marriage, In the end, I get a wife, sincere, devoted, caring and loving. The time takes toll......

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Categories: skirmishes, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Ode To a Fallen Sparrow
...Oh, dear Sparrow! Fallen still Softly feathered where you lay As of a soldier gently eased To sleep in dreams away Whose dying wish was lost, was lost In wars of yesterday Your folded wings a......

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Categories: skirmishes, bird, death, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Weekend With Drew
...Spending an entire weekend with one of your best friends is a treat onto itself, but spending an extended weekend with the same frie......

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Categories: skirmishes, 6th grade, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Bio
Healing Dream
...Healing Dream Three days before my mother died, the family on deathwatch, I had a dream, remembered a song I received on a mountain trail. It guided me to find the dark tower defending the ......

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Categories: skirmishes, 10th grade, death, family,
Form: Free verse
Old Wounds
...I know village where blessings is their curse From their mountain of gold they mine penury Right in the village square is fountain of thirst where Fathers won't stop narrating to child The old t......

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Categories: skirmishes, discrimination, identity,
Form: Free verse
Coward
...A coward easily gives up in the morning And even in the evening: In brewing fights to lie low And during skirmishes unhelpfully slow. Battle strategies offers the hothead, Courtesy of the war ......

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Categories: skirmishes, courage,
Form: Rhyme

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