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Famous Prisoner Of War Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Prisoner Of War poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous prisoner of war poems. These examples illustrate what a famous prisoner of war poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...r his mother in a shower stall —
the worlds in this world. 

 Or say, one year — say 1916: 
while my grandfather, a prisoner of war 
in Holland, sewed perfect, eighteen-buttoned 
booties for his wife with the skin of a dead 
dog found in a trench; shrapnel slit 
Apollinaire's skull, Jesuits brandished 
crucifixes in Ouagadougou, and the Parthenon 
was already in ruins. 
 That year, thousands and thousands of Jews 
from the Holocaust were already — were 
still ¬— busy ...Read more of this...
by Bosselaar, Laure-Anne



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