Iraq Poems - Poems about Iraq

Some camels have spiders that assault their riders, or so come the tales from Iraq. They’re known to eat horses in multiple courses and carry them home on their backs. They’ll chase down a Humvee while screaming like banshees, with armor resistant to...Read the rest...

FOB Echo Iraq was a forward operation base near the Babylon site in the city of Diwaniya, in fact the US military put security hesco and fencing around the ruins for protection from all of...Read the rest...

Our Soldier Son 2007 We sat together in the front row At airport gate number five (his father and I), Watching as he paced Toward the exiting corridor. Then at the opening of...Read the rest...

The Devil Within I’ve paid nevermind to the world ending, it has ended for me many times, only to begin again each morning. For behind these once innocent eyes, a true darkness there lies. Hidden in the absence...Read the rest...

Merciless! they died~ blood, bodies on ground, fired our machine guns with rat a tat sound! some whimpered and cried calling out loved ones, it mattered not to us, our hearts were stones! our soldiers died too in similar...Read the rest...

Oldest museum was built in Iraq Built by Babylonian princess – fact. No one knows her name. She was just a dame. If she’d been male, they’d have kept track....Read the rest...

The Things Never Said The terror… The only things ever said about my daddy’s WWII service were that he’d been to New Guinea where he’d ridden on a truck full of soldiers by a river without a...Read the rest...

I The historical record shows many intimate connections between Arabs, Muslims, Hebrews and Jews, and Babylon. The nation we equate with Israel began as tribes in the deserts of Arabia. Some of them were allies, some...Read the rest...

I forgot he was White I met a man on the train A hundred miles from Tennessee I studied him meticulously Hoping he wouldn’t sit next to me So I judged him Prejudicially He was white, about 24 In Military...Read the rest...

Dear Mom, Hey Mom, I hope you are well. Not feeling much pain. I guess, when you get this letter I’ll be long gone. It’s my goddamn birthday what a coincidence. See I took a direct hit...Read the rest...

The French word for ‘cockroach’ is ‘le cafard’. In some contexts it can mean ‘depression’. But for the soldiers always standing guard, ‘Avoir le cafard’ refers to boredom. I’ve heard war has been described as follows: “Ninety percent boredom,...Read the rest...

“I have seen what cannot be unseen.” Confessed the little boy To a uniformed interrogator From a small chair In Iraq, The boy’s lips dried and crumbled Around his mouth Like chalk Outlining the final place and time Of his terrible crime. Dust is glued...Read the rest...

you enter into my innermost calmness chafed naught a crawling grapevine and speared mustered seeds I'd beckoned your tenderness your infamous timely sorted kisses morbidly missed over time driving over gravel searching for hidden scents of...Read the rest...

letter to Iraq beneath your skin lies terror, your sons and daughters die young i have seen their limbs tread on bombs , play grounds for dead bodies. death comes by night to orphan children by morning. for what purpose does...Read the rest...

>Afghanistan, England, Iran, France, Iraq, Belgium. Sorry if your country. I missed. I guess I need a longer list. Of where those IS terrorists, have now struck. And someone has, had such bad luck. With explosions sounding in the...Read the rest...