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War Haiku Poems

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

Many Gave All

Freedom isn’t free
today, honor those who served
and those who gave all
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Categories: freedom, war,

memorial day

blitzed blackened skies 
hail of bullets ricochet ~
crimson fills trenches 

screams of the fallen
reverberate through scorched earth ~  
laid waste to ruin 

dog tags...

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Categories: america, death, memorial day,

Echo of the bombs


  Echo of the bombs …
dark shadows are falling   
   upon the ruins       ...

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Categories: war,

Dark Hai-Ku

Carry me home boys,
for the war is over and I...
cannot feel my legs!

Dark phantom figures,
play dice games on people's heads...
to see who is next!

Stands a...

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Categories: life,

Hope nailed to the cross

"After Auschwitz, there is no poetry" - Theodor W. Adorno

hope nailed to the cross
mankind at its darkest hour
there's no forgetting



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April...

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Categories: abuse, evil, hope, men,

Echo Chamber

     whispers faint traverse

     cobblestones… a continent... 
      
   ...

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Categories: red, sound, war,

War


Steel screams, earth bleeds red, 
Silent souls on broken winds, 
Seeds of sorrow sown.

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Categories: war,

GARDENING PEACE

In plowing God's love,
let us sow seeds of His peace;
raking away war:-...

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Categories: allegory,

ART



       


         Every form of art
     dignifies...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, art, extended

as the last petal falls

            as the last petal falls 

       ...

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Categories: nature, perspective, war,

Brotherhood

As blood and death flow,
Men stand United. Brothers.
Honorable. Fearless....

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Categories: best friend, brother, character,

Wind

So cold and breezy
Whisper at my ears
Secrets of beyond...

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Categories: nature, world war ii,

Advice

Don't
poke the bear
he has nukes...

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Categories: allegory, war,

Naufrage

Always hope swimming 
We feel that we are swinging 
But we keep the coursing
...

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Categories: art, heart, love, time,

The Fallout from Dyslexia and Nuclear War

for my entire life
I've always been on the brink
of annihilation

under a wooden desk
covering porcelain neck
the unforgiving sirens

a nuclear child
petrified of being exposed
to the fallout

seven years...

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Categories: school, war,