Best Verdun Poems

Three 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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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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Clarity 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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Eleventh 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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in 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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While 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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My 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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Your 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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Moonscape
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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orchidlike 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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SUMMER 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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If 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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The 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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No 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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