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Khmer Poems - Poems about Khmer

Khmer Poems - Examples of all types of poems about khmer to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for khmer.

Under Our Father's Sun
...Under our Father's sun, the sorrows of our captive soul of sin serve us. The blood of the world's second son (of the first mortal father) cries out from the earth to our heavenly Father and hencefort......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse



Universal Soldier
...Lay me to rest in marbled halls with angels at my head, not lying here in the mud of Ypres with khaki turning red. Let me die a noble death, one that's worth fighting for, not to avenge a nobleman......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, anger, humanity, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Respite, Khe Sanh
...Long day ... Trudging jungle mud of the Da Krong On the dirty heels of Charlie ... At least eight skirmishes and a tunnel rout Our platoon weaned of three more The luck of the unlucky......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, appreciation, life, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Just As Bad As Nazis, Part I
...You never hear a person say: “True fascism has never been tried!” But when it comes to Socialists you hear that nonsense all the time. From Venezuela to Russia, from China to Europe’s east, I s......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, corruption, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1984
...What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high While Band Ai......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, conflict,
Form: Free verse



When Reason Goes Out the Window
...I find it curious that people will debate the nature of God, with one side saying it is irrelevant as He doesn't exist and the other sure they can pin down the nature, the complexity, of a Being so f......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, angst, atheist, god, humanity,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Khmer Rouge
...Cambodia Prison camp S-21 Angkar kills but does not explain your blood bleeds into my veins so I can feel your pains whatever god you pray to beg for deliverance. in the good old USA we are ......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Year Zero
...Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge movement, the leader Pol Pot, Killed twenty-five percent of the population, a fact most people forgot. To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss, That was the ......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, conflict, history, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Genocidal Politics
...Genocide is a method discussed in Sun Tsu's writings, The art of war through the use of internal fighting. Divided and conquered by powerful political people, We have been compartmentalized for......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, death, evil, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Overarching Genocide
...Overarching Genocide Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and ......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Face of the Buddha
...( This poem is about the ' Killing Fields' of Cambodia, 1975-79, where as many as 2 million people were murdered by the communist Khmer Rouge. I taught in Phnom-Penh from '73-74, and never met a peo......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, angst, bereavement, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Cambodian Cote D'Azur
...“Cambodia is Cambodia but not really Cambodia.” That’s what some say As the years roll on Forty years or so since Pol Pot and his pals posted ‘Year 0”, Sent the whole thing to the wash, And......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, travel
Form: Free verse
It's a Miracle
...It’s a Miracle And if by chance you should survive And turn your eyes And see the great sky Of heaven And think to yourself I am alive ! God must have a purpose For everyone Inclu......Read the rest...
Categories: khmer, faith, lifeworld,
Form: Free verse

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