Best Truce Poems

warriors risk lives

                         post . . .  Merry Christmas . . . dance . . . hug

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Guns fell silent, nervous heads appeared,
one by one from the trenches climbed,
for a short while no-one feared,
some spoke while others mimed.
They kicked a football,
hugged fellow man.
Peace to all.
We can
stop


In memory of the Christmas truce in 1914, when men from both sides,
for a brief period, forgot...

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The truth in a poem lies in the empty spaces between the words 
salvation lies where sad blue notes sting and cling
and the ever constant pain of your absence 
has not yet settled in my soul 

My love lies in the fathomless depth of your...

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In another life  

There was a strife  

Angry like the frustrated wife  

Embarked on  

By those who enjoy a con  

‘Invade’ my enemy did say  

“You are going to pay!” 

Wanting it their way 

But I retaliate  

Over...

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She watched with absent eyes from the dark
As the tundra of our smiles performed their dances
The snowy winds  long ago snuffed out this spark
We speak our pleasantries like dolls in trances
Our summer years passion now a winking coal Winter's embrace

Gone are the "I love...

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Declare A Truce


Don't know if we really should mind,

When someone has many axes to grind

In final Analysis guinea pigs we become

After hearing beating of her drum.


Religion and politics are poison these days

And what people do when they will praise

Their God in ways we might not...

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Men from the martial planet Mars, versus
We, women from the virtuous Venus, 
Long in covert wordless wars to discuss 
Way out, change there’s in focus nor status. 

For feigning love aimed just at carnal sex, 
Man for long’s sharpened his pyrrhic war axe, 
Whilst to...

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An uneasy truce hovers in the air
    combatants tense, no soldier dares
  to catch a minute's sleep
    the price of that, far too steep  

  Minutes pass, they feel like hours
    searchlights flare...

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She sat there spell bound
It's so hard to believe
Never has she been speechless 
It’s a miracle it seems

No one could comprehend
Why the sudden change
Half time was over
It was back to the game.

The  miracle suddenly disappeared
She was her same old self
Her mouth in full gear
No...

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In World War One a tiny ray of light
was kindled one bleak cold and wintry night.
On Christmas Eve amidst the throes of war
the blast of battle bruised the earth no more
and carols filled the air on either side
as harmony abridged the great divide.
A perfect peace...

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When fiery language rages
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This rose will surely die
Just as surely
my love for you never will

Sad and dry
this occasional bloom

But I can still smile
knowing petrified love
is still absolute beauty...

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Silent the guns and call your enemy
to say hello, as long as there is life in you
and empathy in mutual suffering by
the massacring virus invading us
like a shrewd salesman of death.
Senseless arms buildup and proxy wars
keep fuel on its fire burning us alive.
Its catastrophe knows...

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talked a lot of trash
up and coming ogden nash
hit on Broadway big smash

rode in a cute coach
which is where she lost her broach
eaten by big roach

what we did deduce
did want to declare a truce
instead hung in a noose

we have God to blame
In God's eyes we...

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In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn.

They heeded not the cries of pain,
Nor smelled the putrid stench of death’s domain,
They bore the scourge...

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