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Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

Ash, Charcoal, Smoke, and Ruin

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Jamie Lee Hamann 1445 Views 5 Comments death, destruction, Jamie Lee Haman, war

ASH, CHARCOAL, SMOKE, AND RUIN I. Swirls of flame on oily rag drip flame upon hot green tracts melt through

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Mold of a Merciless Hand

August 30, 2021 Jamie Lee Hamann 1858 Views 2 Comments hate, merciless killing, violence, war

Mold of a Merciless Hand I. To make a mold of a merciless hand who moves through generations like a

Humor Poetry

The War Inside My Teenager’s Room

January 9, 2021January 24, 2021 Jamie Lee Hamann 1917 Views 3 Comments Cleanliness, Mess, Teenager, Teenager's Room, war

The War Inside My Teenager’s Room A Demanding comfort uncomfortably messy a pocket size tornado of Memory Foam torn into

Political Poetry

When We Sing a Populist Hymn

February 17, 2019February 17, 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann 1874 Views 5 Comments money, Political Party, populist hymn, tyrants, war

I. We Sing A Populist Hymn We sing a populist hymn when depressed, a widespread depression cloudy on land. So

Poetry Political Poetry Rhyming Verse

peace lost to political divide

September 18, 2018January 18, 2019 EdF 1787 Views 11 Comments children learn, civil unrest ., Divide, peace, revolution, war

peace lost We could all ask ourselves today what are we to become and then where are we to go

Epistle Free Verse Political Poetry

Living in Hope…

July 6, 2018January 19, 2019 Tony DeLorger 2118 Views 2 Comments epistle, hope, one world government, power struggle, sand pit of egos, war

The sand pit is filled with recalcitrant egos, swollen with maniacal dreams, supreme power and the worship of drones too

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Until We Are No More

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1483 Views 2 Comments control, destruction, no more, poem, vilification, war

Sporadic the sprays of vilification’s spit, hatred concealed in political plays, the grit of propaganda’s cold intent, vetted in timing

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

It Whispers to Me Still

April 5, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1669 Views 2 Comments indifferent world, love and compassion, poem, potential, war, Whispers

Moons like eyes apprise the distant light, shining through the darkest night to languish on a world indifferent, a momentary

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Chess – Like Life??

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Paul Neglia 3151 Views 6 Comments chess, life lessons, strategy, war

Chess – Like Life? You Decide… Tis an honored sport of insurgent warfare, and germane tactics from within the trenches,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Dystopian Soldier – Vision of Madness

February 6, 2018 R J Schwartz 2086 Views 3 Comments dystopian, RJ Schwartz, soldier, vision, war

Beleaguered, bewildered Confused and corrupted Brain swirling, vision curling Thoughts resizing, fantasizing It is real, just what I feel Sign

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Escape

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 Paul Neglia 2684 Views 8 Comments escape, perserverance, starvation, tragedy, war

Escape from Nazis … III. Escape For months we had studied to expose a weak spot rehearsing in code with

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Prisoners of War

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Paul Neglia 3239 Views 7 Comments hate, perserverance, prison, torture, war

Prisoners of War II. P.O.W. When mortars discharged, I could see all the morsels, The tendrils that swiftly divided

Free Verse Poetry

Thundering Hoofs and Four Horsemen

January 27, 2018January 27, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2058 Views 6 Comments death, famine, four horsemen, pestilence, thundering hoofs, war

Thundering Hoofs … Hear the thundering hoofs and the four horsemen, Mounted on steeds of white, red, black, and pale,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Attrition

January 24, 2018January 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 2251 Views 8 Comments death, horrors, life, sanity, war

Attrition I. Battlefield Abject silence was the tormenting anxiety, as stillness ripples its way through the ravaged square. A cold

Free Verse Poetry

The Suffering After the Score

January 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1789 Views 0 Comments aftermath, broken soldiers, no help, poem, suffering, war

I traverse this earth, treading upon the shells of broken souls, like the bleached skulls of dead warriors, for the

Epistle Free Verse Poetry

The Apocalypse…Can You Handle the Truth? (Political Controversy)

December 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1814 Views 2 Comments apocalypse, epistle, politics, unwanted truth, USA, war

WARNING…Political Controversy and Unwanted Truth An insult delivered with kindness, to open eyes and hearts.. Our apocalyptic fears will come

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Red Rover, Red Rover – Send Your Soldiers Over

December 8, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2066 Views 6 Comments leap frog, mommas cry, red rover, soldiers, tag, war

Red Rover … Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Tommy right over, And he was sent to war, Now gone forever

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

No Moral Reason At All

December 3, 2017December 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1649 Views 2 Comments death and suffering, justify, moral, poem, right, war

When faced with evil, do we vanquish, destroy it for all it is, or are we evil for our intentions,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Transcending Fear, a Better Way

November 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1740 Views 2 Comments egos, fear, ill-conceived, peace, poem, war

Tales of woe echo in boundless landscapes, in lands far from mind, far in time, where I see in dreams

Fiction Historical Fiction

Sam’s War – Siege of Bastogne Belgium 1944

October 19, 2017October 25, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2760 Views 11 Comments Bastogne Belgium, December 1944, General McAuliffe, General Patton, PTSD, war

Sam’s War – Bastogne 1944 Sam could not understand what happened, he was laying on rocky ground. He was drifting

Poetry

They Wage War for Their Own Wanting Souls

October 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1926 Views 3 Comments blame, love, poem, revelation, souls, war

At my end, surrounded by malignant people, whose delusions are impenetrable by reason or sense, and it is their manipulations

Poetry Rhyming Verse

A War, I at End, Have Won

October 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2244 Views 2 Comments poem, soul, storm, truth, war, won

The storm is my soul, splendid wrath and serene repose, caught between its swaddled wrap and the questions beyond my

Poetry Romantic Poetry

The Homecoming

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2136 Views 4 Comments dream, homecoming, parted love, poem, return, war

She waited in profound anticipation, each passer by her heart pounding, each stranger’s face compounding her fears, and as the

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