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Best Ww2 Poems

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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: ww2, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Memories
Life was harsh for me
very harsh from the beginning, in the little village in Greece.
We hardly had anything to eat because everything was
destroyed by WW2...

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Categories: ww2, courage, god, life, memory,
Form: Bio
Premium Member I Remember When
With just a little coaxing I can remember when
Excitement ruled my early days when you'd come home again.
I was a boy, just seven or eight...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ww2, growing up, people, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Source of Hate
Hate,
You came to me
When I was a child

I don’t want you to
Be near me
Ever again


It was during WW2
Japan ruled
Koreans obeyed

One day 
Mother came home
With tears...

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Categories: ww2, evil, forgiveness, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Preciousness of a Human Life
When we consider all the tragedies
that occurred in WW2 so very terrible
especially the loss of the Jewish people
so many so innocent utterly horrible

It beggars belief...

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Categories: ww2, humanity, jewish, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme



No Angels In Foxholes
There aint any angels in foxholes,
Jock Grey once said to me.
He was looking at a different scene
Than what we could both then see.

Just tension and...

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Categories: ww2, dream, memorial, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
On Being Eighty
On Being Eighty

Do not smile and pat me on the head
Because I’m eighty
Do not treat me as though I were a child
Because I’m eighty
Do not...

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Categories: ww2, angstme, me,
Form: Narrative
There Is No Glory In War
There is no Glory in War


In the far reaches of the Earth
Since the time of Jesus's birth
There have been wars and rumors of wars
And even...

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Categories: ww2, war, war, lost, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loose Magic
Loose Magic

Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose, 
and not your toes. 
Skipping rocks, 
and bubbles in the park. 

Eye contact from across the room, 
notes...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ww2, angel, anniversary, beauty, bible,
Form: Free verse
Age of 55
Coming of Age

Sitting on my front porch
Watching the world go by
I wonder what I’ve learned
At the age of 55?

What were the 60’s all about?
Did we...

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Categories: ww2, appreciation, change, courage, encouraging,
Form: Ballad
The Battles the World Has Seen
the bombs 
the guns 
the blood shed
no humanity done
all is lost
under the strick and pain
of all the bombs 
every day 
WW1 WW2 
the Cold War...

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Categories: ww2, dark, death, death of
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Beautiful Spring Flowers
in my city of Canada ...
   the snowdrop flower ... welcomes Spring
      growing through the melting snow
 ...

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Categories: ww2, flower, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Questions
Questions

What defines... success?
Is it how many people you know. 
Is it where you have been, 
or where you will go? 

Is it who you talk...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ww2, adventure, america, angel, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cat
The Cat

It is late, 
nearly half-past nine. 
You are asleep beside me.
The clock on the wall is too loud. 
I need to buy another. 
This...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ww2, addiction, atheist, christian, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zieg Heil
Who voted for Adolf Hitler? Almost everybody. No matter which party or candidate chosen. It was done with the fascist attitude of the immoral majority....

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Categories: ww2, appreciation,
Form: Blitz

Book: Shattered Sighs