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War Free Verse Poems

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

pelelui

sunlight …

like shards of glass it
shreds the emerald green bamboo trunks
dazzling my eyes like gods -
swaying … whispering
a torrid breeze carries the horror …
what we’ve

Categories: analogy, introspection, war,

forget not king warning

forget not king warning demonic 
danger incremental gradual liberal
nor genocide joey precedent 
nor dispensation donny cleansing
oligarchy authority false choice
g ford greater more effective evil
empire merrikka

Categories: anger, dark, earth, money,

Aisle Constitution

Free formed American letters
Aisled constitution 
Assent
Report
Confer
Signature of alphabet.

Legislation 
Derivative of signatures
Posthaste
Carriage
Distribution of wages
Post War Conference

Numerical Assignments concur
Exchange of freedom 
Mandated registration for return


Postmaster
Post mastered
Door frame
Hearth

Circulation

Categories: america,

The Dangers of Mankind is Man

Mara’s hair colour touched by time, her voice hedged—struggling to find its way to me
She had once tried to kill herself.
My flippant thought: Did you

Categories: grandmother, grief, holocaust, irony,

Poverty of Ideas

If we are the sheep,
then leaders must be shepherds,
guiding us to rest, to water, to fulfillment.
But if they fail—
what is the need to follow them

Categories: betrayal, evil, farewell, hurt,

Happenstance

War time department 
Will not accept defection back in doors
Parody of film available 
Dow Jones industrial 
Cannot re accept bottom value

Lady lucks paying up the

Categories: america,

Scene, While Away, 2

Background B.B King it

You'll get home alone

A Quartering as Jazz
As quart and liter
As meter and mile 
Footage and reconcile

Irish Quartermasters Gaurd

Kevin J. O'Meadhra

Trace as feather
Low

Categories: betrayal,

A Soldier's Prayer

I was at war,
fighting for my nation.
Blood stained the ground,
the sounds of guns and bombs
pierced our ears—
like ominous words carved in the air.

When I lifted

Categories: family, heart, heartbreak, heartbroken,

Prince of the Power of the Air

                 (Woe to Ariel: Nuclear Armageddon)
 Amos 9:1-10, Mat.

Categories: bible, christian, death, god,

Kill By The Sword, Die By The Bullet

Inspired by Bruce Dickinson song Darkside of Aquarius 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the wings of the first hellrider were venoms ~
so prodigious they were shrouded in veils of

Categories: conflict, dark, political, power,

blanket

I wish upon sweetest breathe,
Cracks egg  who knew death
with a hammer & choice to make
a war within a house by the lake....

Candid are toffee

Categories: introspection,

Tears of Venezuela

America enters not as shepherd,
but as wolf cloaked in justice.

You called Chávez tyrant,
you brand Maduro a trafficker—
yet your own markets drink the poison
you pretend to

Categories: abuse, america, bullying, confusion,

Irish Reconnaissance

Is done with world war 2
We may begin writing 
Western Civilizational

Categories: america,

LIKE CIGARETTE PAPER

My poor mother "La Daniela"
As they called her at the Casa de los Picos
In the capital of Segovia
Where mothers and children took refuge
In the fratricidal

Categories: allusion,

APROPOS OF DING DONG DITCH AND PALS

APROPOS OF DING DONG DITCH AND PALS

Literally, AI pranks
Have caused suicides:-
One while on the computer;
The other by a back shot:-
This may sound funny,
But death is

Categories: allegory,