Best Trench Poems

Plunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.

Attached to shovel handles were the arms of skeletons - of men,
who pausing, hacked and wheezed; then bent and smote the dirt again.

With bruised decrepit bodies -...

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Mariana's Trench
what a shock to find beauty
where none can see it

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12th February, 2016
Contest ~ Haiku 102
Sponsor ~ Nathan D...

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As dusk their line visibly bows
Cropped heads beneath mounds fold
Glum shadows through addle fields row

Listless turrets sprout o'er demarcated woe
Sallowed eyes in bleary sockets rolled
As dusk their line visibly bows

Shocked ears to concussive barrage close
As sighs from clogged lungs are paroled
Raspy shadows through addle fields...

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the reasoning the fishing in the trenches
beyond tire swings and monkey wrenches 
follies crawl behind the hanging logos 
of unseen filth across 124th street 

tassels dangled above an oasis 
of fine dining and soiled linen 
over the board rooms covered 
in a mesh of purple...

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For we stood
For we stood out there
On a field in France
Staring straight at death in its lair

Gun in hand, battle stare
For we fought
Man on man
Bayonet or bullet, hand to hand

For we screamed and we cried
Friends are dead; biding time!

For we thought in muddy trench
Loves we’d...

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I have to wear a trench coat
To cover suit and tie
I hate that green old trench coat
I really cannot lie.

I hate the way it bags and sags
And flips and flaps around
The way the belt comes loose
And drags along the ground

That stupid belt just won’t stay...

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Treading lightly through snaking, 
muddy trench
Squeaking boots with slippery 
grooves synch
A mass of matted flesh bares its 
rotten stench
Thirsting maggots, doting flies 
cannot quench
No rustic accoutrements adorn, not 
even a bench
Deep longing for warm touches of 
caring mother, practiced wench
But only cold, rancid rain does...

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TRENCH  CURSE 1918
BY
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

	
Patriotic songs give us reason to cheer
Except when “ over there” becomes over here
Mounting casualties are easy to explain
Men on foot crossing open terrain
Synchronized whistles signal the attack
Rise out of the trenches don’t look back

Charge across no mans land search...

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I WAS PURSUING A CAREER IN  DENTAL AND ORAL SURGERY
NEVER THOUGHT  THE WAR WOULD LEAVE A FATAL MARK ON ME
THE  SECOND YEAR OF STUDY CONSISTED OF FIELD REVIEWS
OF THE DENTAL CONDITIONS OF BATTLE FIELD CREWS
THREE OF US BOARDED A BUS AND HEADED...

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Argh resolution between
     self and eldest
     dear daughter more remote,
now then locating

     a left handed monkey wrench,
cuz she feels this papa
     did deliberate smote
her upside the head, knocking

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Marching two by two,
Hup Hup, left, right, left,
M-16 fires, death fills the air.
Charge my men,
Fill the field with fear,
Leave the enemy dead in our path.

Up, up out of the trench,
Lines of screaming soldier,
Scattered formation,
Blast of fire, artillery barrage;
Limbs flying in complete disarray,
One, two, three men...

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We've dug down deep.
We've dug our trench.
This smell of death
We wish to quench.
The mortars fall on muddy field.
The bodies mount in no mans land.
The enemies fight neither wish to yield.
For freedom we wish to stand.
The rats they feed on the rotting flesh.
On friends that have...

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The gray envelops
And swallows whole.
The teeth are in the skull

And if they ever come out,
They are chewed up....

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A lot of body shifts by an inch,
While vengeful killer teeth they clench:
A prosecutor is addressing The Bench,
Concerning dastardly murder of a wench
By a whisky-soaked German French
Whom he’s sure could also in Vodka drench!

Shovel handy they could dig The Quickest Trench
And from Prosecutor A Talkative...

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I enter the school with big wide eyes – shining bright!
Oops! My heart jumping with joy at my best friend’s sight.
Here, I begin my flight.

The prayer begins, it’s a quirky quiet.
We may try hard but eyes know their right!
As ma’am passes by, we begin the...

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