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War Children Poems

These War Children poems are examples of Children poems about War. These are the best examples of Children War poems written by international poets.


Premium Member HOLY WAR FOR A HOLY LAND
One day after Earth Day…thinking about what Earth Day is celebrated for…
I’m also thinking about all the children on opposite sides of a war

Thinking of...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, war,



Premium Member GUARDIANS OF ANGELS
The older I grow…the longer I’m on this spot 
I think our understanding about guardian angels needs to be re-thought.

We tend to think of our...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angel, children,

PLEA FOR PEACE
Beasts! Killers!
Soulless beings, devoid of empathy,
Ruthless in your actions,
Inflicting pain without remorse.

What sins have the innocent committed?
Caught in the crossfire of your wars,
Agents of destruction,
Where...

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© Pius Seda  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, conflict, cry, dark,

Premium Member BLACK AND WHITE
Children will  hear children will be told
Of the stories of once, in colors so bold
Only black and white are left in this world
The rest...

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Categories: children, war,

Premium Member COMPARING STORIES
It’s early morning…I’m looking into empty bedrooms…
when I smile…stop…and stare…
Although our children have all grown…I can see them sleeping there.

We’ve read them a bedtime story…they’ve...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children,



A call for peace now
This is the news, a dream of peace,
an echo from the Middle East,
where children cannot understand,
the broken bones of broken lands, 
their only hope, for...

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Categories: children, dream, parents, peace,

Premium Member The Bitter Soil, Gaza 2024
The Bitter Soil, Gaza 2024

Earth, Gaia, mother of us all
wars defile her sacred gifts
we sow the dead like seeds
reap a harvest from our guns

in this...

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Categories: children, earth, grief, war,

Premium Member The world watches and waits
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,"
Israel's war crimes, a brutal truth..
The statistics are glaring and growing more bleak.
One thousand Gaze an...

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Categories: bereavement, children, death, war,

What the situation in Gaza has confirmed for me
Faults on both sides,
That outsiders have widened,
With money for tunnels provided,
No due diligence accounted for,
Rocked me to the core,
With no one held to account,
For any...

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Categories: age, analogy, appreciation, children,

Biden Continuing The Tradition of US Interventionism
It makes me wonder if we have learned anything from our War on Terror in the Middle East. Biden gave the impression he understood that....

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Categories: america, children, war,

Froxy War
The children suffer
The foolishness of adults
As war goes tougher....

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Categories: children, meaningful, violence, war,

Premium Member Sunday by Necessity
Rainy day today
Rainy day Sunday
Sunday on par
Sunday too far
Far better now
Far to go
Go with wind
Go with breeze
Breeze dries clothes
Breeze dries hair
Hair curls softly 
Hair curls...

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Categories: children, games,

Premium Member Sipping Coffee
Remember playtime moments shared.
When as two children, nicely paired,
with clinking spoons or tiny cups
pretended coffee like grown-ups.

And, then you said, I am old enough.
I need...

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Categories: children, drink, growing up,

Premium Member WARS WITHIN AND WITHOUT
Wars within and without with unimaginable ends.
My imagination crawls through the network of tunnels.
Minor hostages bound to their mother’s terrified heart.
...

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Categories: children, fear, mother, war,

Premium Member Children of the Planets
We are children of the planets,
We are children made of stars.
We once believed in a magic old man
Riding in an airborne sled.
With a bounty of...

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Categories: childhood, children, christmas, giving,


Book: Shattered Sighs