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Civilians Poems - Poems about Civilians

Premium Member Deafening Silence
... Deafening Silence we live in a world juxtaposed  with apparent contradictions with poverty shining amidst plenty unseemly wealth jee......

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Categories: civilians, feelings, life, peace, poverty,
Form: Free verse
The Grave Silence Over Gaza
...I write not with anger, but with the burden of sorrow that cannot be cleansed by diplomacy nor buried beneath the noise of geopolitics. For in Gaza, the earth drinks the blood of children, and the......

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Categories: civilians, america, conflict, cry, death
Form: Free verse



the Jewish couple
...The Jewish couple I have written about this before, but somehow didn't get it right  My perceived brusqueness made them think of Cracow, they had fled, their relatives lost in the turbulence ......

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Categories: civilians, age, allah, allusion, beauty,
Form: ABC
Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool
...Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool... because you watch and see that democracy will unspool military (intelligent) industrial complex tool at Trump's beck and ca......

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Categories: civilians, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Job Description Board of the Middle East
...Job Description Board of the Middle East The Sniper - not Palestinian The Bomber - not Palestinian The Thief - not Palestinian The Terrorist - not Palestinian The Child Killer - not Pa......

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Categories: civilians, abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member in memoriam
... this is a true if near impossible contest how can you write a poem about mourning and honouring the ones deceased in a war without it being somewhat political you do not have to be a feminist......

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Categories: civilians, war,
Form: Free verse
World War, Overdue
...No prophesy, epiphany or convoluted scheme Forecast it’s not. For sure, no joke. And isn’t a pipe dream But something tells me, instinct chimes, we are so overdue For global war, as tensions build......

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Categories: civilians, war, world, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Boastful Mountain
..."Arrogance, a harmful disease, Never keeps human souls at ease And afflicts men with a false sense ......

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Categories: civilians, extended metaphor, mountains, pride,
Form: Concrete
The Echo Returns Not
...The Echo Returns Not Sponsor : Unseeking the Seeker [ Poet’s note : SOLOMON MAHLANGU was a South African Freedom fighter & cherished leader in revolutionary army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was sen......

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Categories: civilians, adventure, africa, angst, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
Creating a channel of change
...Feeling displaced, misplaced, and suffocating Running low on oxygen  hyperventilating. Debilitating trying to keep pace running the same simple human rat race 1st place But no golden medal is wo......

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Categories: civilians, blessing, change, feelings, mental
Form: Rhyme
Double Tipped Astroids
...Virtue inherited not born with The birth of prophecy created a new poem Knowledge a capers coin Hightower resurected a powerful force Bloodlines are like landmines watch your step Lopez connect......

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Categories: civilians, angel, anti bullying,
Form: Canzone
The Bitterest Pill
... Generations of the entire world.. Once abided by a force fed conditioning, An indoctrination so deep, so vast and yet so hidden.., Reveals a new rekindled conscious bliss, For our obligatory ......

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Categories: civilians, analogy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Old Hags
...Afraid of Moslems because they protest while 2000ibs bombs killing babies signed by American politicians angry they say? ya would you not be? your family slaughtered? how many millions has USA......

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Categories: civilians, america, evil, hate, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'A Thousand More October Sevens'
... Bibi exchanges hundreds of murderers with blood on their hands for a handful of hostage civilians fueling Hamas’ evil plans for ‘a thousand more October sevens’......

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Categories: civilians, jewish, murder, sleep, violence,
Form: Rhyme
I Stand for a Unified People
...There’s no victor and no vanquish, The so-called rising sun of Biafra has been set forever, It would be a disservice for anyone to refer to any eastern state of Nigeria as Biafra, The tragic chapt......

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Categories: civilians, history, poetry, political, war,
Form: Free verse

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