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Best Combat Poems

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


Poets In Combat-Sigh
Poets, you've been expressing your opinions on politics
Some were very nasty, like oil and water, they don't mix
Some 'discussions' have gotten rude and very hostile
It's...

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Categories: combat, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pink Lace
**Every pace change --are the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon** 

"PINK LADIES"  
  
The phone rings, 
The clock dings,

I scream, scream, and...

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Categories: combat, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: combat, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: combat, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Hint of Change
When leaves in whispers say goodbye
With a hint of autumn’s sun rise
Once of vibrant life to mutate
In combat with the chilling eve.

Soon to waltz within...

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Categories: combat, nature,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member We, Nasty Women
must refuse relegation, obey
only the roar of our own angels, then reshape 

breastplates to shield the motherland
from any warlord who dares 

to pimp our flag.
Battlefields...

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Categories: combat, allegory, history, political,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Ship Is Safe In the Harbor
A ship is safe in the harbor,
But that's not what ships are built for.

Because in the sum of our human gleams,
We have created the vessel...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: combat, adventure, nature, sea, uplifting
Form: Couplet
Premium Member If We Work Together We Can Make a Difference
International Earth day prompts us not to forget
that the world we inhabit is under great threat
Blue oceans are being choked by plastic pollution
reduce, reuse and...

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Categories: combat, abuse, earth day, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Know How
Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and...

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Categories: combat, age, humanity, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
In eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January 
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory 
At Isandlwana the Zulu army...

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Categories: combat, africa, england, river, soldier,
Form: Narrative
I Am An Artic Wolf
My silky ivory coat keeps me warm in the artic climate,
my keen senses search for prey in the Alaskan wilderness-
When I encounter the mighty mount...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: combat, animal, life, , cute,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pixie Dragons
I thought the landscape burst in sudden flame
with embers wild cavorting in the glare
of dawning sun, but boundless sparks became
a throng of monarchs flitting through...

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Categories: combat, butterfly, fantasy, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tit-For-Tat
Tit-for-tat,

a philosophy that humanity has never been able

to combat!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      11 August 2018...

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Categories: combat, anger, pain,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Brute Censorship
If you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of...

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Categories: combat, art, freedom, love,
Form: Didactic
The Soldier's Way
When my son was small he and his friends loved to play marines
A brown eyed soldier dressed up in his helmet and his jeans
I asked...

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Categories: combat, dedication, loss, warson, school,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things