Military Poems | Examples of Military Poetry

It's time to depart from the clamorous harbor as the crowd waves... wearing faces of sorrow; ah, dearest friend of my happiest years, leaving the somber shore, remember my affectioned hug hoping not to be the last... may my presence be there: in...Read More

SOLDIERS IN AN AIRPORT Soldiers on a bench in the camouflage fatigues of the Eighty-Second Airborne the Seventy-Fifth Rangers, or the most-deployed Tenth Mountain Known only to each other, they are adolescent eagles, their hooded eyes everywhere and every face a mask...Read More

Idyllic color photographs of my family, my mother's golden beehive elegantly arranged on her head, I was a kid in the shredded, bleeding 60's, black and white newspaper photos, newsreels of the Vietnam War, too young American soldiers, losing life brothers, then, many,...Read More

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What happened is certainly enough to appall. I'm in the Army and I was forced to go AWOL. I am disgusted by what happened and it's hard to believe. Even though my brother was dying, they wouldn't give...Read More

Asleep on the bed your new arms and legs placed neatly on the chair by your side. I see your eyes moving rapidly testifying to the horrors that are still alive in your head. How can I tell you that all that...Read More

God, in the gloaming, splits the horizon with lightning, assembly of angels of every nation and tongue ~ lifting coffins of great numbers of war dead, military, and civilian men, women, children, over dusky rolling fields of scarlet poppies, nations...Read More

Many of our U.S. military and their families experience hunger, our guardians deserve bread besides bullets for their guns that defend us, for their voluntary bravery, they merit banquets. The organization Military Family Advisory Network gratefully accepts donations for military hunger relief....Read More

If I were S/He I would look downstream for a power so high this mythic enlightenment feels sacredly deep and widely therapeutic mystical in feeling, practical in application. If I were She I would declare a new Wisdom: National superpowers corrupt toward fundamentally polarizing...Read More

“Dear Mom,” was how it started, like so many I’d received from Paul while he was stationed in Iraq. But this one was the letter that he’d sent to break the news that, as it...Read More

Why would a great, strong nation, symbolized by the dignified and regal Bald eagle, send its sons and daughters of the oath into the lion's mouth ~ some fallen in a courageous soldier youth's death, returning home beneath the American...Read More

angels' amity amidst angry assembled archenemies, armistice achieved, armaments acquiesce, archangel's amazing announcement, ardent applause, averted an armed and armoured armies' animus and annihilation...Read More

kids impressed, wave from trees. father, mother, siblings, pet - on high. the neighbors salute. while, in a red bow, girl’s waiting, breathless. does he want her…? how heavy is his bag? 2/6/2021 Double Tetractys 7 Sponsor:Eve Roper HMS Photo #3 ...Read More

Mystic mystical seas Wayward soldier it's not yet over over yourself is just being gone over on the rising raging seas your voyages just begun Binding me and in raging seas high at nautical pace your journey's Journey course...Read More

AMPUTATED CANDY DREAM (DADDY IS HOME) Service to your country's breastplate, Honour to a nation is your fate Hero of the state, Weapon of the government, Legend of the battlefield sent to thrive tirelessly in war, Not mindful of what might befall... You...Read More