Best Evacuation Poems
Below are the all-time best Evacuation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of evacuation poems written by PoetrySoup members
Evacuation and LossThe night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant...
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Categories:
evacuation, bereavement, child, depression, family,
Form:
Narrative
At DunkirkAt
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:
evacuation, courage, world war ii,
Form:
Etheree
Eat Pray LoveOn the edge
of the evacuation zone
Miyuki holds her daughter
tip-toeing in pink sneakers
her small hands fragile
blossoms opening
to the man with the beeping...
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Categories:
evacuation, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Narrative
Losing It In IsolationI’m losing it; you know I am
When I ask myself questions, then answer them out loud
And consider this a “conversation”
When...
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Categories:
evacuation, fear,
Form:
Free verse
The Ides of March*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.
The Ides of March
Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed...
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Categories:
evacuation, celebration, character, conflict, fate,
Form:
Sijo
I Am ScaredWarnings are given
School schedules on hold
Evacuation notice
Echoes of years ago
Rushing to Jounieh port
Under cover of night
The harbor being shelled
“NO lights
NO lights!!!!
Not even a cigarette
Get on...
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Categories:
evacuation, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Hopeless Feelings of MatthewHelpless Feelings of Matthew
Above the black clouds of Matthew,
Angels are singing heavenly melodies,
It is golden there, and winds do not dare
To disturb such tranquility.
They are...
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Categories:
evacuation, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
Terrorist BreakfastBritish 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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Categories:
evacuation, violence,
Form:
Ballad
ChernobylChernobyl.
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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Categories:
evacuation, cry, death, sun, world,
Form:
I do not know?
Barry Cowsill LeavingA friend , a poet , a music Man , The Cowsills
remembering the song "hair" on the radio...
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Categories:
evacuation, beauty, celebrity, death, death
Form:
Free verse
The FitnessJumping the jam,
I am peter pan,
doing a man,
don't know his name at this dam.
Down-stream is a clam,
up is a nap-
I creak when I walk,
never stop...
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Categories:
evacuation, angst, depression, drug, grief,
Form:
Limerick
Angry Earth
The power we now witness is only the start
An angry earth she is, her tectonic plates in depart
Seconds later they again meet with abrasive force
The...
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Categories:
evacuation, loss, natural disasters, sadcare,
Form:
Quatrain
A Thank You To the NurseA rhyming thank you written in verse
To the wonderful women and men who work as a nurse
They do so much more than just first aid
Considering...
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Categories:
evacuation, health, sister, social, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Palermo, Sicily, 1943for George
"You always said you had little invisible friends,"
He wrote in a Christmas card one year, and Yes,
funny he would remember that. I called...
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Categories:
evacuation, family,
Form:
Free verse
The Pleasure of Old AgeThe pleasure of old age
This is good morning only been up twice in the night and not
Stumbled over furniture, his wife kept filling...
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Categories:
evacuation, age, birth, culture, environment,
Form:
Diamante