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Best Military Service Poems

Below are the all-time best Military Service poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of military service poems written by PoetrySoup members


Women In Military Service For America Memorial
Oft overlooked veterans,
of EVERY American war
The Medal of Honor, 
one woman only ever wore.*

Women in Military Service,
a concept slow to grow.
Unrecognized, under-compensated,  
yet, always...

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Categories: military service, tribute, veterans day, ,
Form: Rhyme



Military Service
on the barber's chair
looking at my hair
piled on the floor
I did adore
now hardly any hair
this life doesn't seem fair
but sacrifices are made
for freedom isn't a...

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Categories: military service, military,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Country 'Tis of Thee
You, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...

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Categories: military service, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
The Melted Ice Cube
It was a magical time.  It was youth and exuberance; It was excitement and discovery; it was innocence. It is now just memory, ah,...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: military service, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Soldier Named Desmond Doss
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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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: military service, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I'Ve a Simple Solution At Hand
Back in 2013 the President 'resetting,' drew a line in the sand
  Syria sprinted across it; faced no response from our end

So, Bashir Assad...

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Categories: military service, america, death, future, life,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Honoring Veterans POTD
                        ...

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Categories: military service, courage, feelings, imagery, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Memoir of An African-American Man, Achievement, Ii
Achievement, 2 of 2
                     ...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: military service, black african american, giving,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Dad's Letter To His Marine
Son, I'm so proud that you elected to serve in the United States Marines.
Military service is a family tradition - it just happens to be...

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Categories: military service, father, son, war, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wind Song
“Wind Song”




When the rain came it raised a torrent
music, little by little, raised the levy
light pebbles rolled over one by one
took with them 
all their...

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Categories: military service, family, flying, freedom, home,
Form: Free verse
Some Timely Advice
"Some Timely Advice"


         Long ago when I was young
        ...

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Categories: military service, life, remember, symbolism, time,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter From Me
ME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing...

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Categories: military service, black african american, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the Barents Sea -
On Coast Guard Nordkapp
My neighbor presumed dead - drowned
Young man nineteen years

Military service
Life ended too abruptly
Deeply missed and loved





Rest in peace, Sindre


08.05.2018
Sun :) - A-L...

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Categories: military service, death of a friend,
Form: Verse
Premium Member What's In Your Name
Sensationally super, and Sagittarius son of John Spence
Pleasantly personable, and matriarch Maud Spence’s son
Enabling, exquisite, eloquent, evolving and enterprising
Naturally nice, no nonsense, and a nutritionist...

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Categories: military service, faith, family, father, life,
Form: Acrostic
National Treasures No 1 Dame Judy Dench Inna Ragga Mc Stylee Innit
Dame Judy Dench
Loves to fish for Tench
When she fixes her motor
She uses a wrench
If she’s feeling tired she sits down on a bench,
DJD is polylingual;
Her...

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Categories: military service, england, hero, hip hop,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things