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Best Battlefield Poems

Below are the all-time best Battlefield poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of battlefield poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Thoughts From the Battlefield
In sandy dunes on my back I lie
Dreaming of warm beaches, blue sky
And a girl named Lorelei
On memories I fly 
War seen from on high
I...

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Categories: battlefield, memory, war,
Form: Nonet



Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: battlefield, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Day of Reckoning
Above bleak pastures,
A cobalt coliseum:
Warriors are unleashed.
·
Aggressive brave clouds,
Battle for the dominance:
Vanquishment is vague.
·
Conquest of power,
Clash of divine elements:
Battle in the sky.
·
Sun and clouds collide,
On...

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Categories: battlefield, nature
Form: Choka
My Little Soldier Boy
Gary, you are my little soldier boy,
who died on Veteran's Day. ('83)
My sunny, golden-haired soldier boy,
that I still miss in every way.

You had just turned...

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Categories: battlefield, child, death, remember, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Categories: battlefield, devotion, faith, hope, love
Form: Concrete



Crimson Rain
On a still...ancient horizon,
Massive dragon wings emerge,
To the atmospheric battlefield. 
Where two legendary beasts,
Clash for the love...of a dragoness.

A battle of mythic proportions,
Of two stonily...

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Categories: battlefield, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
With Your Voice I Sail
With Your Voice I Sail

		My voice 
		    may stumble, failing
 			a clear path to trace but 
			    your smiling...

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Categories: battlefield, friendship, hope, words,
Form: Concrete
I Have Been To Places of Great Death
I have been to places of great death:
walking the battlefield at Gettysburg,
as a lusty young man of no firm belief
who stepped between the great rocks
of...

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Categories: battlefield, allegory, angel, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dissolving Heart
“The Dissolving Heart” 

How many keys
played for seeds 
bleeding a life

read, received 
cast out 
in the left field 

planted in the heart
of karma to become
new...

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Categories: battlefield, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: battlefield, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Two
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Two)

Song over, Poe told demon band to leave
And then pointed to the now empty stage
Wretched souls, look as...

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Categories: battlefield, conflict, courage, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Categories: battlefield, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unsung Hero - the Soldier
Unsung Hero – The Soldier

Warily he stood at the corner,
Wondering which way to turn.
A weary smile on his faded brow,
As he held out an old...

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© Kika Ayala  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: battlefield, appreciation, hero, loneliness, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Winds of Time
One day I was passing time
And wrote these words upon the lines,
I know not where they came you see
The Winds of Time were there for...

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Categories: battlefield, imagination, inspirational, visionary, me,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Poets Guise
Within poetry is found many a guise
See poetry has brought wars to rise

Within the breath of Nostradamus tales
Quatrain after Quatrain of future spells

Throughout time lovers...

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Categories: battlefield, on writing and wordsfuture,
Form: Couplet

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