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Sarajevo Poems - Poems about Sarajevo

Sarajevo Poems - Examples of all types of poems about sarajevo 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 sarajevo.
old Europe
...What is missing in this city? What is missing in Stockholm, in Paris, In London and Copenhagen, The sun. What is missing in this city? What is missing in Paris, in Brussels, In Honfleur and Gen......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, appreciation, culture, youth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Other Side of Vrbanya Bridge
...Their story haunts my memory, I'll tell it to you plain.. in the city of Sarajevo, a place war could never touch, and hope it never will again. Already thousands remain so silent under rock and ......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, heartbroken, love, parents, prejudice,
Form: Prose
For Heather Heyer: Loving Painful Truths In Unity
...Your pain is my pain, because human suffering was never an individual matter The wisdom of every culture, the founder of every faith, made that clear We cannot separate suffering into cubes......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, america, animal, anti bullying,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Sarajevo Dream
...SARAJEVO DREAM Hang it up or throw it out it's what the world is all about, there's nothing in tomorrow that has not been dreamt about. All things will stay all the same it's only what's be......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, allusion, hate, war,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 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 your eye from troubled sleep to wake wherein y......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, conflict, tree, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Sarajevo Dream
...SARAJEVO DREAM Hang it up or throw it out it's what the world is all about, there's nothing in tomorrow that has not been dreamt about. All things will stay all the same it's only what's be......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, abuse, conflict, hate, war,
Form: Lyric
The Legend of the Sandwich
...Gavrilo Princip wanted to kill the Arch-duke Franz Ferninand To integrate Bosnian-born Serbians into the Greater Serbia So with bombs and pistols supplied by the Serbian military With another seve......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, world war i,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member 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 fools will make our way, our fear has brought i......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, betrayal, hate, world war
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Sarajevo Cage
...CAGE Deep in the death, the vastness of your eyes that reaches into times eternity, I go, a vagrant, soon to realize you are beginning and the end of me. The fear of born again brings me to te......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, anger, hate,
Form: Sonnet
Global Dystopia
... Mogadishu ... Black Hawk helicopter down Caracas ... Riots burning everything to the ground New Orleans ... Katrina tears has gotten many more drowned Manila ... ......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, death, pain, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Sniper
...SARAJEVO 1994-95 - the sniper He hides behind the dirty window pane with eyes all cold and void of any care in blinding heat or through a drizzle rain his thoughts are only what has brought him ......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, abuse, anger, conflict, hate,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sarajevo - the Bombers and the Butchers
...BOMBERS AND BUTCHERS Don't worry little girl, you need not cry, we know your tears, and feel them every one and all too well, though many more will die, you will go home again, it is not gone, ......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, change, conflict, death, racism,
Form: Sonnet
How It Strikes a Contemporary
...(On 28 June 1914, in the Balkan town of Sarajevo, an attempt to assassinate a royal Austrian duke failed miserably ... or did it? Gabriel Princips, one of the plotters, stopped for a coffee and b......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, history,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sheltered In Alone - Sarajevo 41
...Sarajevo - SHELTERED IN ALONE Between the silence whispered in your head and what you cannot see in front of you; each morning of each day you know, but dread, as if a curse is all this life will......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, anger, hate, political, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sarajevo 1995 - Another Cease Fire
...SARAJEVO-1995 Another Cease Fire As old as death and cold as nevermore all set to stone, by those who've died before; the acts of love, though viewed a falacy reveal the truth of what has come t......Read the rest...
Categories: sarajevo, abuse, hate, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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