Famous Munitions Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Munitions poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous munitions poems. These examples illustrate what a famous munitions poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Tebb, Barry
...gone, a blind memory
In Homer’s song: I sing of where I was born, war-torn,
Blitzed, the iron railings stripped, the munitions
Factory at Barnbow closed.
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There is a photograph in the archives
Of the city museum marked ‘Shed, Falmouth
Place, 1937’; it is your street, Margaret,
The creosoted palings and cart turned on
Its end, the shafts raised like a memorial
Stone, our last memory gone.
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For fish and chips
We went past ‘The Mansions’
Half...Read more of this...
by
Muldoon, Paul
...f alone
while having absolutely no sense
of its being a world-wide symbol of munificence.
Munificence—right? Not munitions, if you understand
where I'm coming from. As if the open hand
might, for once, put paid
to the hand-grenade
in one corner of the planet.
I'm talking about pineapples—right?—not pomegranates....Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...' like a 'eap o' offal, and so
I'm crawlin' out in the beet-field to bury 'is last remains.
'E might 'a bin makin' munitions -- 'e 'adn't no need to go;
An' I tells 'im strite, but 'e arnsers, "'Tain't no use chewin' the fat;
I've got to be doin' me dooty wiv the rest o' the boys" . . . an' so
Yon's 'im, yon blob on the beet-field wot I'm tryin' so 'ard to git at.
There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome,
Sydney was drowne...Read more of this...
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