Best World War II Poems
Below are the all-time best World War II poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of world war ii poems written by PoetrySoup members
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:
world war ii, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
SophieSophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...
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Categories:
world war ii, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form:
Narrative
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:
world war ii, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form:
Narrative
The Last Train To AuschwitzIn nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...
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Categories:
world war ii, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form:
Narrative
Onslaught#One should be cautious in starting a war, but
once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly#
#Quote by Hirohito circa...
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Categories:
world war ii, allusion, america, world war
Form:
Rhyme
A Rose By Any Other Name ---Through the hushed whisper of the breeze
Flowing through the majestic circling pine trees
I sense that I have stepped
Into a sacred hallowed space
A GARDEN OF ROSES
A...
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Categories:
world war ii, beauty, humanity, love, peace,
Form:
Ode
Pearls Beneath the HarborOur bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward...
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Categories:
world war ii, people, places, world war
Form:
Haibun
Little Toy SoldiersLittle Toy Soldiers going off to war
None will ever live to see age twenty four
None of them even know what they're fighting for
Little...
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Categories:
world war ii, boy, goodbye, peace, soldier,
Form:
Rhyme
Lili MarleneLili Marlene
In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...
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Categories:
world war ii, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form:
Verse
At DunkirkAt
Dunkirk,
where thousands
of stranded men
lined a bloody beach,
hope was draining with each
air strike delivered by the
unrelenting Germans’ aircraft.
Cold, starved, and injured men watched from shore -
their...
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Categories:
courage, world war ii,
Form:
Etheree
Where White Crosses GrowRows and rows and rows of white crosses,
Like sentinels -stone-fixed to the ground.
The wind like a shroud wraps around them,
Enshrining each space where they're found.
Stone...
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Categories:
world war ii, death, hero, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
D DayA place where peace should reign, yet terror grows.
A paradise where blood and children lie.
A beach where young boys played and now men die,
with liquid...
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Categories:
world war ii,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Color and DiversityThe world's grey. Slowly, methodically,
Feathers from colorful birds have been burned.
Sheep in a fog on a snowy mountain.
One man thought uniformity equaled
Superiority, ugly furor.
Their ashes...
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Categories:
world war ii, color, discrimination, violence, world
Form:
Free verse
ThousandsThousands living in fear
For they knew Hitler was growing near
In Poland her career would soon to be
As she helped scared persecuted to flee
Gas chambers were...
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Categories:
world war ii, history, obituary, tribute, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
war, world war ii,
Form:
Haiku