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
Thoughts From the BattlefieldIn 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
Texian Macabre ArenaThe 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 BoyGary, 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 SailWith 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 DeathI 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
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
It Appears I'Ve DisappearedA 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
Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part TwoDarkness 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
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 SoldierUnsung 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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Categories:
battlefield, appreciation, hero, loneliness, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
The Winds of TimeOne 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
A Poets GuiseWithin 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