Short Afghanistan Poems

Short Afghanistan Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Afghanistan by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Afghanistan by length and keyword.


Premium Member Afghanistan

Afghanistan Haiku by: Tom 9-10-21 Leave no one behind; an unwritten rule of war not lately followed.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Strategy

To kill all the Taliban clan
We’ll dig up a best in west plan
General Custer’s
Old memory musters
A last stand in Afghanistan
war
Form: Limerick

Super Bowl Abroad

Afghanistan in football fever
Airborne division lose cover
To cheer from abroad
They won't hit the board
A rest for radio receiver
Form: Limerick

Her Return

Time passes along,
Seen by his heart so heavy,
Angst at her return


First ever try at a Senryu.

Written in Afghanistan -3 SEP 2013
Form: Senryu

Rigid and Livid About Being Vivid

not only rigid
about picture being vivid
also am livid

After looking at pictures of Afghanistan
this is the poem that I came up with.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


The Prototype

Any schoolgirl in Afghanistan
Makes a target for the Taliban
God gave Eve a brain
But failed to explain
That a brain will backfire in a man!
Form: Limerick

CANADA 911

GANDER NEWFOUNDLAND

38 PLANES HAD TO LAND

FOLKS GAVE A HELPING HAND

AFGHANISTAN, WHERE

CANADIAN TROOPS SERVED THERE

WE DID OUR FAIR SHARE
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Two Decades In Afghanistan

Two Decades In Afghanistan Haiku By: Miracle Man 8-28-2021 In call to duty, Many gave some, some gave all. Mission accomplished.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
war
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Exit Plan In Their Sand

Jill Biden goes to see Afghanistan
But she forgets to take her exit plan
   No problem, she says
   My husband's the Pres
Taliban draws her a line in their sand
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Leader of the Free Limerick

Mr. Important sat sunk in oval
Kids on each knee, papers for his removal
   "Health care, Afghanistan..."
   "But, Pop, you don't understand!"
"No long-term good comes without upheaval."
Form: Limerick

A Helmand Soldier

Here I am
In Afghanistan
To protect the people from the Taliban
But
The Imam
Laughs at me
Says
Stupid man
This
Is your Vietnam
You’ve been here now
Near 10 Ramadans
And
Still you cower
In your armoured vans
war

Premium Member Pity the Poor Women

Pity the poor women of Afghanistan
In the hands of the ruthless Taliban
Repressed and put down
In a shapeless black gown
At the disposal of any overbearing man.

written August 12, 2021
Form: Quintilla

Yank a Young Yank From Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, understand there was a young yank,
Who from that awful country President tried to yank;
From where we sat,
He is a total dingbat,
And do presume that this is another foolish prank.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

I'M Innocent I Tell Ya

I’m innocent, but they arrested me off the plane
They say my actions were utterly insane
Locked me up in Guantanamo Bay
For five year to this very today
For flying to Afghanistan to deliver a bomb to my brother Hussain
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Tall Glass of Kool-Aid

I'm feeling a bit down, wish I was lying on the sand With a tall glass of Kool-Aid and a young sweetie at hand Not young anymore Can't buy youth at the store If we could, there's be a lineup from here to Afghanistan
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Desertion

There once was a fellow lived in Pakistan Who married a woman from Afghanistan She refused the veil He said "what the hell?" And went off to join up with the Taliban.
written July 28, 2021
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Tall Glass of Kool-Aid

I'm feeling a bit down, wish I was lying on the sand With a tall glass of Kool-Aid and a young sweetie at hand Not young anymore Can't buy youth at the store If we could, there's be a lineup from here to Afghanistan
Form: Limerick

Writers Block

Writer's Block

Hard as Rock 

My Brain seems Covered by a Smock

Wait Up You 

Something's Coming Thru

Hope it's not some Hullabaloo 

Oh Snap's Damn 

How About Uncle Sam

When The Hell is He Getting Out of Afghanistan!
war
Form:

Premium Member For Love of Countrymen

He bites his tongue when they burn the Red, White, and Blue
   When professional athletes take a knee, he doesn't say 'boo'
I asked him how he can take it, how he keeps silent
   Replied he, For them I fought in Afghanistan and Iraq too
Form: Rubai

Afghanistan ~ "dumb Support"?

Maimed support undone,
the battle won ~
is still that tyranny's succumb
mates jeopardy with truth, upon the run!

Prowess protects more than
the "rule of thumb"!
Support not my position's drum,
If I am able . . . and yet still dumb!
Form: Rhyme

Coffins Cheaper By the Dozens

Coffins cheaper by the dozens
The French
Are withdrawing a thousand troops
From Afghanistan
Before the end of the year
But only if they are not killed
Too many coffins
Don’t look good
On the French president’s desk
People can count
Form: ABC

Premium Member Proof Positive

From his mishandling Afghanistan
     to Chinese weather balloons

  From pooh-poohing inflation
     to 'afraid-of-Putin' palpitations...

  Joe Biden has proved for once and for all ~
     Octogenarian presidents need a new pair of balls
Form: Rhyme

Iraq Afghanistan Libya the Next One

They say a man that knows no fear can never be truly brave and the man who points the gun will never be enslaved we set you free from tyranny with tanks and bombs and planes we hope this brings you comfort as you lay down in your graves
Form:

Premium Member Taps

Three Cheers for Afghanistan
  Twenty years since US invaded
  Terrorist strongholds raided
    Al Qaeda eliminated
     
Yet ere we depart, it's fallen apart
  Terrorism's once again strong
  The 'government's' the Taliban
Play taps for Afghanistan
Form: Rhyme

Coffins Cheaper By the Dozens

The French are withdrawing a thousand troops
From Afghanistan
Before the end of the year
But only if they are not killed
Too many coffins
Don’t look good
On the French president’s desk
People can count
Especially the dead
Dumped on foreign ground
Without a body bag
war
Form:

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