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Best Ieper Poems

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


The Ieper Bugles
Two lonely bugles play
As they have done on other days
Echoing around the Menin Gate
32000 times since those days of hate

Ieper on the Western Front
Fed the...

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Categories: ieper, remember, war, , western,
Form: Elegy



Our Digger
It was a bright cold sunny morning
The mist lifted without warning
As we walked through the cemetery gate
It had been nearly a hundred years wait

Outside of...

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Categories: ieper, remember, world war i,
Form: Ballad
The Missing At Menin Gate
At Ieper in Belgium there is Bloomfield's Cathedral Arch
Through the town's cobbled streets we did proudly march
For all British Nations troops who were garrisoned here
In...

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Categories: ieper, world war i,
Form: Ballad
The Menin Gate Lions Return
The Lions were an 1822 sculpture 
Placed at the Ieper Cloth Hall
And in 1862 they were moved to the Menin Gate
In the Great War Ieper...

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Categories: ieper, remember, world war i,
Form: Free verse
Diggers
The diggers looked around
As they  marched over the ground
Of the  Menin Gate at Ieper town
And their chiseled names shone brightly down
When they passed...

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Categories: ieper, remembrance day, war, world
Form: Dramatic Verse




Book: Shattered Sighs