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Foxhole Poems - Poems about Foxhole

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Letters from the front 1915
... I am writing these letters to someone who no longer exists for me and if she ever did, she is lost somewhere in a past I can no longer visit. I write them for myself. I do n......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Compliment by Max Burchett
...by Max Burchett Lots of flattery and L.A. handshakes given, But once upon a time, actually just last year, A seemingly casual compliment was for me heaven, One I will always rem......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, appreciation, dream, encouraging, identity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Burbs Are Not Scary At All
...I wrote this one after watching the miniseries “The Pacific.” THE BURBS AREN’T SCARY AT ALL Scarier the skeletons sitting in the suburbs or the ones being dug out of graves… t......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How
...(1.) The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins Just as earth's flocks of beautiful s......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, art, life, love, magic,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Prayers That Count
...Many pray every day, or so they say Others claim to pray five-six times a day I think the majority never pray But 'in a foxhole' know what to say......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, fear, people, prayer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Slava Ukrani
...Slava Ukrani The day dawns in thunder, As always. The night creeps forward New fires over all the landscape Like fallen stars burning their last, As always. We comfort the wounded See to ......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, anger, dark, patriotic, war,
Form: Free verse
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 maybe boredom And expectation among the boy......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, dream, memorial, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tail Between His Legs
...He starts out with arrogance that could kill a dinosaur. His pompous attitude blowing up his head like a rooster’s comb. But when the rest go after him, he slips and slides down on his back. Land......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Peek Out the Foxhole
...“I am going to peek out the foxhole!” The squirrel told his troop. “Don’t call it that!” screeched Finicky Farlane, spilling his soup. Seriously, it is called that for real, Finicky, said Sergeant ......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Wartime
...Walking this path Once populous Now desolate Ambushed An unspeakable ambush Now I'm travailing Just inhaling and exhaling Breathing The precious breath of life Spiritual bombs soon colluded ......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, betrayal, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears of a Vailant Soldier
...THE TEARS OF A VALIANT SOLDIER The man coming home, used to wear a military suit. Man’s little older, wiser now, not innocent … recruit. ‘Soldier his duty,” back then told, same told, othe......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, bible, courage, feelings, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Memorial Days
...The local girls are Asian, South Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese. A few runaway Muslim chicks. War is a man-shaped demon. War is booze and guns, fistfights, Humvees and frying, flying li......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Soldiers Cross To Bear
...Out of foxhole field and bunkered platoon a patriot leads the clarion’s blare - answers his country’s call to arms but soon duty and honour rise a toll I fear. Let not councils of God and......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, soldier, war,
Form: Sonnet
Bobby Bandwidth In Dogs Humping Act 2
...both sides use conscience for a hook it's a con artist's suitcase fill your cup in the Ocean of Tears there's enough of everything in there toasters glowing blenders humming dogs humping on lawn......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Den
...I tripped into a foxhole down down down shiny black button eyes beamed a dime a dozen for your doe-eyed sins can you call your mother’s name? Sleek and shining you see me bleed ma......Read the rest...
Categories: foxhole, absence, allegory, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

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