Best Evacuated Poems

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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They came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very...

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Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .

     In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf...

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Help me save just one
They are so many
I have reason for no gun
I refuse the use of any
Use me to carry him
On my back to...

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British people asked for 30 minutes to eat their breakfast before being evacuated from Terrorist Threat.

When in Britain I like to sit down
To a full...

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He was coming.
He was coming fast.
He was coming to pay us a visit.
A brooding, lethal monster 30 miles out.
He was coming straight at us
and nothing...

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These long sleepless nights
Waiting to hear
That hot red dragon so near

No way to know
While you fight its fury
I lay here and worry

It devours acres by...

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Chernobyl.


A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before...

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>We have just remembered the ending of the Second World War VE day it's called.  My father, well stepfather was a member of the...

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this will be good and slippery
in a whistling fall from grace
feel free to edit in a picture of your choice
the more grotesque the more accurate
while...

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Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . . 

Maybe some of my facts are not exactly right on,
maybe some...

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Humans have long trespassed
and destroyed animal territories
Humans have poached
And selfishly encroached
upon animal habitats
cutting down trees to build
human habitations.
Now the tables have turned
Humans are quarantined  in...

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“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.” 
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation...

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Letter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch

A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944

Deep...

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August, it's late in the month,it's been many years
but a quiver is felt in the earth, in southern Colorado.
Some folks slept right through it, others...

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