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War Iambic Pentameter Poems

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

Echoes for a War Requiem

I think sometimes of the life there once was:
Of a time when birds sang throughout the woods
And insects flitted between the flowers.

But when greedy hands

Categories: death, memory, nature, remember,

Since It's Their Crises, Please Don't Cry Sis

Each of the man-made public disruptions,
Experts say is an unforeseen crisis;
But since they profit from planned destructions,
I am begging you, please don’t go cry sis.

They

Categories: america, cry, hope,

Faux Dough

Blowing up things, unfortunately,
Birth’s the printing of endless money.
By Gov’ments and world money makers,
That overwhelm global undertakers.

Yet we cry out that war is unsound,
That it

Categories: money, peace, war,

Almost Xanadu

Is wished-for peace on Earth our Xanadu?
A golden dream, mirage- our sky of blue?
An aspiration, wishful thinking to
allow us to envision this as true?

If only

Categories: hope, peace, world,

There Stood a Great White Horse

I looked, behold, there stood a great white horse;
Its rider had a lethal, silent bow.
And on his head, a crown, rough-hewn and coarse,
And there he

Categories: death, war,

Now Jericho, Besieged By Israel

Now Jericho, besieged by Israel,
Had shut its doors, and none went in or out.
The LORD told Joshua, “If you’ll believe,
We’re going to bring these walls

Categories: bible,

The Autumn Leaves

The Autumn Leaves fell down and down to Earth,
to feel the gentle touch of our Mother;
The Time, it ticked away,"Seconds" it snatched,
went devastating Life's much

Categories: autumn, cry, earth, nature,

Three Wishes

I summon Genie from Aladdin's lamp
Requesting he fulfill his wishes three -
I think of children (eyes becoming damp),
Wish 1: please Genie, end their poverty.

Then, contemplating

Categories: children, father, mother, poverty,

Average Joe Schmo

there is average Joe Schmo
who seeks no more to know
than he exists 
and he goes with the flow of the show

others tell him there’s much

Categories: grief, life, metaphor, moving

Little Lily

Little lily lost in leisure 
Trying to trace her long lost treasure 
Where to find and where to not 
But ended up finding what she

Categories: care, character, child, dark,

Final Kiss

"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in

Categories: goodbye, love, war,

One Nine and Sixteen - the Attic

The Attic


Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
     in this old attic of dear grandma's home.
So dark, a lighted candle is a

Categories: death, grandparents, memory,

Sad Journeyman of Death

Sad Journeyman of Death

Sad journeyman of life’s unending tests
bides time in loathsome sojourn cross each dawn
respecting naught but future’s numbered breaths
a-weep upon the touch of

Categories: death, family, war,

Sarajevo - Under the Linden Tree

Sarajevo - UNDER A LINDEN TREE
The morning lights and to another day
a pirate's chest you've found but will not stay
for longer than the blinking of

Categories: conflict, tree, war,

Sarajevo Snack

SARAJEVO SNACK
Speak softly to the tune, it plays out in the night,
and never think that Sarajevo hasn't named the song.
Division is the rule, and

Categories: betrayal, hate, world war