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Death Or Glory Poems - Poems about Death Or Glory

Death Or Glory Poems - Examples of all types of poems about death or glory to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for death or glory.
Premium Member A Suicide On Stage
...Leonore was disliked, cast aside and ignored, her rage increased with bizarre behavior: why couldn't she be the eternal and idolized Queen? And envy grew towards the more successful thespians; h......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, allusion, anger, anxiety, character,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Arena of the Elderly
...My last foray into this arena Had me living memories, not wished to share Here I go again, another visit Into the elderly homes, we wish not A sunny day, another gathering Carers working, maki......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time Running Out
...My last foray into this arena Had me living memories not wished to share Here I am again, another visit Into the elderly homes we wish not A sunny day another gathering Nurses working, making ......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, age, bereavement, care, conflict,
Form: Free verse
A Soldier's Destiny
...Nothing marks the day he left this world no pomp, no glory, no flags unfurled no marching parade to fill the streets no tears to run down crimson hued cheeks No one to hold him, no one to care ......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Captain and Cook
...Three times the Master spoke and three times the capstan broke. Decks awash with briny spume, the storm raged in the gathering gloom. 'Pull in that spar or else we're doomed!' Above the roar the......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, adventure, fantasy, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Herstory, Not History
...(for Virginia Woolf) She wanted to buy some flowers but drowned Herself instead, drifting along the ebbing flow of time, with warm water cracking Her slim figure and airless lungs. ‘will I fr......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, art,
Form: Free verse
Oh Passchendaele
...Oh! Passchendaele your story has been told Of endless mud they trudged where their life was sold Thousands left the safety of their trench lines And disappeared into the mud for all time It mak......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, death, war, world war
Form: Ballad
Black,Red and Gold
...BLACK,RED and GOLD Location---SOMEWHERE IN KÖNIGSBERG 1945 APRIL 9 Scene---A Dying German Agent/A Soldier`s thoughts/reflections just before death On this periphery of life Let blue jeans of......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, death, farewell, fire, patriotic,
Form: Vaasokht
Premium Member Small Cog In a Huge Machine
...1914-18 War. Just another small cog In a huge machine Working together Aimed at some foreign foe To give a bloody mortal blow And end a wave of ternary Spreading across Europe Over seas Like a pande......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, history, horror, irony, memorial
Form: Free verse
The Stargazer's Ride For Wild Wild Westcowboy Contest
...THE STARGAZER'S RIDE (or THE LAST SPURRING LICK) Saddle shoulder-tossed like feather light ......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, adventure, animal, cowboy-western, life,
Form: Free verse
Die In Glory
...I might have died with my eyes open wide. Please ! close them so my misery could hide. Give me a bath in rose water. Make my grave stone telling mister. Dress me all up in black. Don't forget to ment......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, death, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Freestyle
...Free style Fire travailing and traveling Lies basking behind Sorrows burrowing my bones Empitiness dueling sleeplessness Vain expectations looming Kith and kins nagging Heaven's gate silence......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Game of Beast and Man
...……….... On act two, my handkerchief dropped down on my weakening feet, escaping the wipe of tears from my sullen lids: by this time children too young to make their own milk burst i......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, angst,
Form: Lyric
The Toast To Battle
...Come drink with me this moment, let"s raise our vessels high and toast tomorrows victory, celebrate who will die. For come the morning sun we shall stand with sword and spear. Swallow down the ......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, history
Form: Rhyme
The airman
...Long lines of vapour split blue skies asunder Fly vengeful raptors, one thousand in number Headlong they go, to brave death or glory Stratosphere flight, part of war's brutal story Last year a ......Read the rest...
Categories: death or glory, history, loss, sad, war,
Form: Rhyme

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