Best Baghdad Poems

We were accustomed to read one thousand 
And one night in Baghdad...
Tonight the glorious city-sky is sad,
It sounded bang! Bang 
Where is my mummy? Where is my dad?
Are they all alive under the cruise wreckage;
Or are they all dead?
The a ‘Rashid city was weeping,
It rained...

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THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, 'tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee no thing, no spirit in the sky,
nor any beast, nor...

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THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee no thing, no spirit in the sky,
nor any beast nor...

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THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee no thing, no spirit in the sky,
nor any beast nor...

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Willy was a thief of Baghdad
                              One night he stole a pen from dad
  ...

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*Bombs over Baghdad (The Urban Wars Collection)

No smiling eyes as misery lights the night sky
Cracked picture frames show a fallen dictator exuding pride
Toppled statues of triumph crumble seeking refuge underground 
with none to be found
The dagger was too close to the heart to survive

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As the wind blows across
 The deserts in Baghdad
 There’s a little girl in Jordan
 Picking fruits in an orchard
 
 In the back yard of her home
 In another far away country
 When war came to the Iraq
 She left Baghdad with her family

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Her bridges are in school textbooks,
Her dead are numbers in the papers.

Every tourist wears black.
In a dream, I visited her once too;

I saw a friend drinking his tears
In a tea-cup, and he smiled.

I saw a crow that covered the clouds
with its wings and I saw...

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(Tree speaks to thief)

They chopped off my upper limbs, to shed more light on the lower 

As they will amputate those hands, now your light fingers grow slower


Wisdom from Trees Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
21/05/22...

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Sleepless in my room,
The sound of constant thunder
And a ceaseless wind;
Even the stars are weeping
As vengeance consumes the sky.


Jim Wilson...

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The people seem calm, yet tension is everywhere.
We know it is the intention
Of the Americans to attack today.
War has been declared, it is coming our way.

The night has just started when the sirens wail.
Baghdad is assailed
With missiles setting the city on fire.
A show of might....

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Arms raised high.
Fists  tight,  to the sky.
Head thrust back, teeth clenched.
The rain pouring down, overhead.
The lightening flashes, thunder crashes.
Tears washed away, by deluge and spray.

I am bruised and bleeding everywhere.
Eyes bloodshot, a fixed stare.
I shout out loud.
HELP  I  DIE.
No one listens...

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Determined though scared, I walk my beat, 
On the deadly streets of Baghdad.
Searching for any who plot our harm, 
Or by our death are joyous and glad.

Standing in shadows caused by the moon, 
I'm reminded of my nights back home.
I wonder if the woman I...

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Moving toward the absurd as war in Baghdad goes on,
along with the print traffic jam and airwaves;
continues to unfold horror stories, deaths: a tinku 
that spew out of Iraq – the ancient Middle East sand.

  Skepticism has drawn a timely relevance,
  that predicts...

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Whirling wings launching into liftoff,
propelling quickly through a changing sky.
A loud sound, so extremely familiar, 
heard by all, when it, comes flying by. 

A battle buddy, in a soldier's horizon,
from the sky, to directly assist.
Becoming the hawk, for us soldiers,
letting us know, when the enemy,...

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