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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


Premium Member Disposable Wisdom
Each 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



Premium Member Sophie
Sophie 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
Premium Member Cora's Clothesline
What 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
Premium Member The Last Train To Auschwitz
In 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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member Pearls Beneath the Harbor
Our 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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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world war ii, people, places, world war
Form: Haibun
Little Toy Soldiers
Little 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
Premium Member Lili Marlene
Lili 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
Premium Member At Dunkirk
At
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
Premium Member Where White Crosses Grow
Rows 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
Premium Member D Day
A 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
Premium Member Color and Diversity
The 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
Premium Member Thousands
Thousands 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
Berlin 1945
Wild galloping horse
Berlin nineteen forty-five
Hoof pounding the Earth

10/01/17...

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© Jamie Pan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war, world war ii,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Last Token
I was five years old when the war was over 
August, 1945, and my daddy sent word 
He was on his way home from Guadalcanal....

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Categories: world war ii, father son, memory, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Why the Rose Bled
Parents so proud four sons they raised
From the Highlands of Scotland in the pre-war days
On their crofts they worked morning till night
Unknown to them then...

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Categories: world war ii, africa, angst, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stranger Than Fiction Part 4
I  continued down the driveway and then came to a stop, damn, I thought I’ve come down the wrong driveway it must be further...

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Categories: world war ii, death, religious, world war
Form: Prose
Act Iii, Final Scene
Act III, final scene, psychodrama script-
the world is ushered off into history's crypt.
All the super heroes lie slaughtered on the floor
while apocalyptic addicts are screaming...

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Categories: world war ii, death, fear, funeral, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chuck Jennings
The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure...

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Categories: world war ii, america, death, soldier, world
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Never Forget
From Poland hailed your Uncle Max, who in matters of manners was a bit lax,
While from France came Aunt Belle, whom I thought was really...

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Categories: world war ii, death, family, memorial, world
Form: Rhyme
Madelyn Blonskey
I was Second Lieutenant of the Army Nurse Corps, 
At Pearl Harbour when it was attacked and bombed;
I was in my room at the nurses’...

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Categories: world war ii, death, dedication, devotion, health,
Form: Quatrain
Symbols In Flight: 1941
I'd have loved to see the bluebirds fly
above the white chalk-cliffs of Dover--
and as they were blithely soaring over,
immersed in thought I'd lie
in calm repose...

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© Jim Dunlap  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world war ii,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Old Warrior
“The Old Warrior”

They look at me and shake their heads
That non-compliant taking up this bed
They whisper in a tone that says it all
And hurry to...

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© Deb Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world war ii, age, courage, independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Guerre
France, fascinating place of beauty and grace overwhelmed by a master and fascist race
 with a dagger in one hand and the other, a mace
...

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Categories: war, world war ii,
Form: Free verse