Best Verdun Poems
Below are the all-time best Verdun poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of verdun poems written by PoetrySoup members
Cain's Exile of Inherent BeingnessMark
The earth turns its face from you
as if ashamed. You
who tilled the soil, now marked
by what the soil received.
Your brother's blood—
how it murmurs, how it...
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Categories:
verdun, fate, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
When Three Cousins PlayedThree cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more...
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Categories:
verdun, war,
Form:
Verse
Oh, the Ubiquity of Perception: a Collaboration With Jonathon Durno
Man
makes this
reality
It's up to you
test
Clarity comes well born to dawn
With an undying, insatiable rage,
Gone are the times when love was ours
That permitted a...
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Categories:
verdun, adventure, community,
Form:
Lanterne
The Ubiquity of PerceptionClarity comes well born to dawn
With an undying, insatiable rage,
Gone are the times when love was ours
That permitted a wit to gauge
Free men...
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Categories:
verdun, history, leadership, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
ArmisticeEleventh hour—
young men perished,
their hopes and dreams all lost:
Ypres, The Marne, Verdun
of the
Eleventh day—
silent, fell guns,
and stillness took the front:
Argonne, Belleau Wood, Amiens
of the
Eleventh month—
the...
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Categories:
verdun, war, world war i,
Form:
Free verse
Tacticsin a rut
no, a trench.
pulled under like Ypres or Verdun
walls held up by bodies of dearly departed.
we gather here today because we have to.
so chew...
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Categories:
verdun, death, history, political, war
Form:
Free verse
The Tommie's LotWhile general’s drink their claret wine,
In taverns far behind the lines
The English tommy spills another wine
On Flanders table, made from mothers pride
In front of guns...
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Categories:
verdun, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Living DeadMy mind wanders to the stillness of a field
where wild asters used to stud the grass with blue
I seem to hear the echo...
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Categories:
verdun, adventure, beach, beauty, best
Form:
Free verse
Ekphrasis On Morning On the Siene Near GivernyYour smile shines~
as the new morn breaks
upon wisteria water
reflecting sunlight kisses
on sleepy teal trees.
Your laughters echo~
upon the verdun leaves
that radiate a...
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Categories:
verdun, appreciation, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
MoonscapeMoonscape
In the cemetery there are twelve thousand dead.
They fought and died for Paschendale.
Such slaughter took place.
One hundred and forty thousand Allies are missing.
Fighting and dying...
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Categories:
verdun, anger, death, history, military,
Form:
Free verse
Ekphrasis On Irisesorchidlike delicate petals ~
oozing in shades of teal and admiral
are like dancing ballerinas
hailing for the first kiss of rain
whilst flaxen and golden grasses
are...
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Categories:
verdun, appreciation, art, nature,
Form:
Ekphrasis
If the Day Dawns, At Last - YuliyaIf the day dawns at last that your heart bows to service,
acknowledges, longs to ‘pay forward’ past debts, I’ll praise God.
If you live Life of...
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Categories:
verdun, appreciation, blessing, faith, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer In the SunSUMMER IN THE SUN
There was a young man from Verdun
Who lazed in the hot summer sun.
He reclined, all revealing,
Till his skin started peeling,
Then he said,...
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Categories:
verdun, summer, sun,
Form:
Limerick
The Unknown Warrior Comes HomeThe Unknown Warrior Comes Home
by Robert J (Bob) Moore © Nov.2018
From the battlefields on the Western front
four warriors, are going home
plain coffins covered by the...
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Categories:
verdun, soldier, war,
Form:
Free verse
No SupperNo Supper
Round as a planet, dark as the galaxy
the interior looked like the last battle in Verdun
the early spring of 1914.
It had been a healthy...
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Categories:
verdun, best friend, fun,
Form:
Blitz