Best War Poems
Below are the all-time best War poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of war poems written by PoetrySoup members
The wounds of warDear Mother, should my footsteps never tread
The pathway which would lead to your embrace,
Know this, though many words were left unsaid,
Your love has pierced the...
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Categories:
fear, love, mother, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
death, war,
Form:
Elegy
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
war, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
war, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
war, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
war, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
Streets of blood
Streets of blood
She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow
With swine and pearls running...
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Categories:
hate, love, peace, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, Part TwoAchilles, The Journey To Troy,
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)
Achilles, The Journey To Troy
Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...
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Categories:
war, art, death, hero, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
Thoughts from the Battlefield
In sandy dunes on my back I lie
Dreaming of warm beaches, blue sky
And a girl named Lorelei
On memories I fly
War seen from on high
I...
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Categories:
memory, war,
Form:
Nonet
September 1945red rooftops appear to glow in rainy-day haze
lost in memories of pre-war bliss
she looks up to watch them bleed
pain is...
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Categories:
longing, war,
Form:
Free verse
God Bless AmericaIn the courts of sport and entertainment
They have forgotten the scales of justice
Lacking honor for those who gave life and limb
Sacrificing blood, and buried with...
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Categories:
war, america, basketball, death, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
When Heaven and Earth WeptIn camps, they’d slaved and starved; cold nights, they’d slept -
Each woman, man, and little girl and boy.
Relentless horror had around them crept.
In camps, they’d...
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Categories:
angel, war,
Form:
Triolet
SoldThere is no difference,
the saints whisper and every enemy and ally
wake to forever’s difference,
that neither knee nor tongue will deny.
Doubt bit into Innocence and sold
the...
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Categories:
war, bible, christian, corruption, god,
Form:
Didactic
HopeYou see hope when two kids share marbles between a volatile border.
Date: 16/06/2017...
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Categories:
war, children, conflict, future, humanity,
Form:
Monoku
Cora's clotheslineWhat softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...
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Categories:
war, heart, innocence, june, marriage,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
society, war,
Form:
Ballad
When the Flowers of Youth FellWhen the Flowers of Youth Fell
Winter stayed late that year
courting Spring with a fury.
Beautiful gifts of snow
and dazzling ice, he gave her.
It was during such...
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Categories:
seasons, time, war,
Form:
Free verse
Why He FoughtSoldier stashed a silver locket
Safe inside his jacket pocket
When the war would numb his senses
He’d break down and drop pretenses
Open up the only token
That recalled...
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Categories:
love, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Digger's ChildrenI paced between the old and new
along the rows where gray stones grow,
so careful not to tread upon
the freshly filled and seeded few.
Soft shadows slid...
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Categories:
life, war,
Form:
Rhyme
CivilityRed hair protruding from the soldier’s cap
Bright sun and heat, his freckles clearly seen
How peacefully the lad appears to nap
Mae Caulfield moans while searching for...
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Categories:
loss, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Shadows of Sacrifice
Such horrid forfeit wars yet thresh
A scree of youth in blood and flesh
...
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Categories:
war, absence, death, lonely, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
In Remembrance of Veterans Day 8x8
...
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Categories:
conflict, hero, war,
Form:
Rhyme
GraceOliver and Grace were planning to wed
At a church in Dublin on Easter day
They put on hold and chose to fight instead
For the fight for...
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Categories:
ireland, love, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Rain over Vietnam
There is the calm before the rain
It’s almost silent all around
The clouds expectant in the sky
Foreboding birds are homeward bound.
The soldiers stare at looming clouds
There...
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Categories:
rain, war,
Form:
Quatern
That Was a HumanAllow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:
Did he just splatter?
And allow me...
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Categories:
war, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue