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Best Infantry Poems

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


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: infantry, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ghosts of Gettysburg
This sacred soil that once resounded with the musket's rattle,
Imbued with mingled blood of Blue and Gray spilt in brutal battle,
Now stands serene with only...

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Categories: infantry, historymen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Greatly Helps Me
God is my great help --- He secures my salvation!
His hands uphold me while transforming me in His conversion!!
He guards my soul by His mighty...

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Categories: infantry, appreciation, christian, confidence, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version
"Before The Gates Of Alahsar." 
By,
Michael .P. Clarke.

(Bardic Style)

(Original Short Version)

(Version-1)

Sweet Alahsar, thy golden crowns
adorned the sky of verdant blue,
sweet land of dream, throne of...

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Categories: infantry, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Man Left Behind
Beating a hasty retreat 
Infantry overwhelmed 
By a barrage 
Of unremitting enemy fire. 
Down goes
 One of the brotherhoods of war, 
Fatally wounded, 
Exsanguinating; 
Body...

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Categories: infantry, death, friend, hero, imagery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My God, Thank You For Quieting Me
August 5 Scripture Meditations Based on Jeremiah 46-52

Key Verse – Jeremiah 47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou...

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Categories: infantry, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Future of America
American teachers guiding America’s youth
They hold the key to our future’s door
So we pay three and a half times more 
To the man who pulled...

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Categories: infantry, 11th grade, america, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now and Then and Now Again
1
Though still within our infancy, 
we strive to thrive, but woefully 
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
 
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's...

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Categories: infantry, corruption, culture, environment, money,
Form: Monorhyme
Take a Deep Breath
I take a deep breath, then I breath out...
I breath doubts, but I guess I breath now
But my breathe shall allow me tear this industry...

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Categories: infantry, analogy, cool, feelings, hip
Form: Free verse
Order Vs Chaos
Tic Toc I watch nonchalant 
arms of the clock
Shift and rock
Grandfathers hands join-unlock
Conducting my living room symphonies

Horns and strings mingle in streams
Blending with screams
Torn from...

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Categories: infantry, analogy, metaphor, nature, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas 2005 In Iraq With Mitt 2-2-2
One or two of us
Were home on leave;
For the rest of us,
Christmas came by mail.

Our callsign: Gunslingers.
Our Military Transition Team
Was embedded with 
The "Triple Deuce"...

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Categories: infantry, art, christmas, fire, soldier,
Form: Prose Poetry
What Am I
Back in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ, 
Don't matter what the time is...

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Categories: infantry, adventure, art, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dreams of the Battle of Thymbra, Lydian Persian War
Dreams of The Battle of Thymbra, Lydian-Persian War

In the midst of a battle I awoke thrown
walking over the crimson red dead.
Found and drew the shaft...

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Categories: infantry, conflict, death, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
War and Peace
Some consecrate the carnage
Of war and infantry;
Or the argosy of navy’s
Crusading far at sea.
Battles have their triumph
When the gun is in the glove,
But the pageantry...

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Categories: infantry, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Call To Duty: a Soldier's Poem
I went straight from High school into the service,
I was feeling proud but extremely nervous.
My mother cried with tears of joy,
she said, “I will try...

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Categories: infantry, brother, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme

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