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Best Warfare Poems

Below are the all-time best Warfare poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of warfare poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Psychological Warfare
Sometimes, we expect 
the sun to rise and smile,
through hazy hellish clouds
carrying vindictive 
verdicts of venomous vultures, 
surmising hues of 
ink to pierce through 
pores...

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Categories: warfare, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Viking Warfare
I left my home, the world to roam
it’s been now twelve years gone.
From a boy to a man
was a dreadful short span,
as I journeyed to...

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Categories: warfare, conflict, courage, hero, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Brave
The brave are more than ones who battle on
in fields of warfare, showing valor true
The brave are more than those that wars have won
There is...

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Categories: warfare, truth,
Form: Sonnet
The Battle
The menace of war in the chaos of life
The peril of ocean when tempests are rife;
The danger of jungle where feral beasts hide
The terror that...

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Categories: warfare, love, woman, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mundane Matters of Mortals
Alas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease 
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes - 
the sickly buzz is everywhere..

the dirge of the drudge 
nowadays damn near everyone in...

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Categories: warfare, dark, death, loss, planet,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The New Poet
~Life Support~

Welcome New Poet To Poetry Soup, 
I offer you a warm smile, in hopes you come back another day.
From the moment I spot your...

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Categories: warfare, addiction, beautiful, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought Police
I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police

Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping...

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Categories: warfare, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandoned Cities
FUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY





"Abandoned Cities"


Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently...

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Categories: warfare, holocaust, humanity, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...

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Categories: warfare, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Befriending Fear
To release me from hellish nights
let's talk now, Fear...
I leave, yet your shadow follows me;
a darkened grime blowing on my mind 
like an uninvited guest...

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Categories: warfare, courage, fear,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Your Country Needs You
I've read many accounts on that horrific war that was WWI ,it was supposed to end all wars.
It was trench warfare and men fought and...

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Categories: warfare, death, soldier, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Helter Skelter
"I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles 

apocalyptic revelations spinning 'round inside my head/have me tossing keep me turning wide awake upon my...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: warfare, confusion, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inflictions of addiction
Two Sedoka's on addiction.
I think we all know someone who suffers from addiction, be it alcohol, drugs, pills or gambling..  Sadly too many judge...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: warfare, addiction,
Form: Sedoka
The Rabbit and the Fox 20 Line Ballad
~~ The  Rabbit and the Fox   ~~  20 line Ballad
The Rabbit and the Fox
The Rabbit and the Fox are here
go down...

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Categories: warfare, adventure
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In a Perfect World
If we lived in a perfect world,
love would naturally abound.
And in this utopic dreamworld,
there would be no hurt to be found.

Peace and brotherhood would nourish
hope...

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Categories: warfare, angst, bangla, dream, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things