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Best Civilian Poems

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


Premium Member Slava Ukraini
A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate...

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Categories: civilian, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member No Greater Hero
Struggling through the Great Depression
Growing up fatherless in the care of a loving aunt
Losing her husband, his weary mother could not cope

Working for the Civilian...

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Categories: civilian, dedication, father, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Invasion of Ukraine
On the twenty fourth of February in twenty twenty two
Russia invaded Ukraine and fierce fighting did ensue 
Vladimir Putin it seems, wants to restore the...

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Categories: civilian, conflict, death, military, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Dunkirk
At
Dunkirk,
where thousands
of stranded men
lined a bloody beach,
hope was draining with each
air strike delivered by the
unrelenting Germans’ aircraft.
Cold, starved, and injured men watched from shore -
their...

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Categories: civilian, courage, world war ii,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Two Ways To Deliver Justice
THE COMMANDER "IN" CHIEF" IS "IN" THE MILITARY"!!!!!! HE OR SHE GETS "TO BE",ALL AT THE SAME TIME: IN "ALL THE MILITARY FORCES!!! ARMY,NAVY,AIR FORCE,MARINES,NATIONAL...

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Categories: civilian, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Smoking Gun
“Smoking Gun”


Twisted Blistered dance with me
Come on Brother Snow get off your genuflection mojo knees
The World’s about to turn and merge
Vibrating dimensions souls that turn...

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Categories: civilian, humanity, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse
I Am So Tired
I am tired of counting the red dwarf stars in the Milky Way.
I am tired of counting the 7 years of grain in Pharaoh's silos.
I...

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© Beryl Dov  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilian, bereavement, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Sociopath Irony
s/he who will get locked away,
fried in the chair, lethally injected,
gassed, hung or shot by a firing squad,
resides right in your home town,
right in your...

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Categories: civilian, life, drug, , western,
Form: Free verse
No Greater Hero
No Greater Hero,

Struggling through the Great Depression
Growing up fatherless in the care of a loving aunt
Losing her husband, his weary mother could not cope

Working for...

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Categories: civilian, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Always Can Be Awfully Cold
Awfully Cold

One of our hopes is that Isle of Man
Might become part of our cruise plan
Which will be with the Princess Line
More we hear about...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilian, travel,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 911 We Will Never Forget
To *key3 

How bad can it get, don't ask me that question 
I'm on the 97th floor terrified, 
hanging from a window, gasping for breath
You...

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Categories: civilian, america, murder, truth,
Form: Free verse
Adopted
There’s a tale that I must tell
Of a heart that I knew quite well.
This heart dwelled within her chest
And had given its very best.

Love and...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilian, childhoodchildren, heart, child, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Full version - A True Christmas Miracle
True Christmas Miracle  True Story  Full version written by Wendy Horder. 2022


Huddled in muddy trenches, the soldiers heard an eerie sound.
Troops were English,...

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Categories: civilian, war,
Form: Rhyme
A P J Abdul Kalam- a Tribute
Oh! Mother India,
Let the pain of bereavement, with all its might,
try not to express itself......
For it will encounter a huge cascading defeat,
And it'll over-flow for...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilian, art, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Another Veterans Day
For Veterans Day and Myself

http://www.story-telling-around-the-world.com/Military-Memories.html

Mid-Month Monday Morning Military Men's Meeting
Would be great for personnel as way of greeting
Themselves and talk about each and every day
Of...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilian, veterans day,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things