Short Casualty Poems
Short Casualty Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Casualty by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Casualty by length and keyword.
Time Stops
The days pass yet time stops for another war casualty....
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Categories:
casualty, war,
Form:
Monoku
Casualty
On empty beach
no extemporary friend
just a wandering wind...
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Categories:
casualty, allusion, analogy, appreciation, friend, wind,
Form:
Haiku
Haiku 11516
bloodied in battle
one more casualty falls
dawn renews the fight...
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Categories:
casualty, sun, sunset,
Form:
Haiku
Child of Divorce
a house divided
spawns the greatest casualty
a heartbroken child
Date written: 03/27/2020...
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Categories:
casualty, child, divorce, marriage, relationship, sad,
Form:
Senryu
An Accident
a small train derailed
there was no casualty
a millipede
( Inspired by Basho)...
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Categories:
casualty, death, fear, hyperbole,
Form:
Haiku
Casualty
heavy with time and breath short
light thankfully dims
to hide landscape scarred
and
toys broken....
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Categories:
casualty, angst, death, people, places, sad, sympathy,
Form:
Blank verse
First and Last
Truth…
the first casualty
of war
Love…
the last casualty
of truth
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...
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Categories:
casualty, truth,
Form:
Free verse
First and Last
Truth, the first casualty
of war
Love, the last casualty
of truth
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...
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Categories:
casualty, love, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Van Winkled
I went to sleep at fourteen
and woke up at forty
A prisoner of reluctance
—casualty of time
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...
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Categories:
casualty, time,
Form:
Free verse
Shame For Feign
a kiss on the cheek
is fair as fair can be. a
kiss on the mouth, and
it might become love or just
an endearment casualty....
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Categories:
casualty, introspection, life, love, philosophy,
Form:
Tanka
Be Careful What You Wish For
Victim of his own success…
the treadmill calls,
the hourglass broken
—casualty of what time denies
(The New Room: November, 2020)...
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Categories:
casualty, word play,
Form:
Free verse
A Minor Casualty of Free Speech
"From the River to the Sea
'Palestine' will be free"
Freely articulated ~
Seven million Jews eviscerated...
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Categories:
casualty, death, freedom, hate, meaningful, spoken word,
Form:
Couplet
Alone Again Casualty
Tryst
befriends
a hodgepodge
of too much pangs
leading to unsuspected circumstance
despite light at the end of the tunnel
count on lights out
as miss match
no friend
twist...
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Categories:
casualty, conflict, emotions, friendship, growing up, hurt, missing
Form:
Tetractys
By Degree
If the first casualty of war
is truth
The next casualty of war
is peace
The third casualty of war
is life
Until the last casualty of war…
hope
(Warsaw: March, 2022)...
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Categories:
casualty, truth, war,
Form:
Rhyme
That New Fangled Machine
"Poppycock and hooey indeed,"
Said the man of the new machine ran by steam
"It shall never catch on,
Even after I'm gone."
Sobering words by the first train casualty....
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Categories:
casualty, funny,
Form:
Limerick
That Which Is Lost
Two sisters sit beguiled in common guilt;
all that is left.
That
and denials;
bitterness
turned outwards;
inwards too painful.
Truth, a casualty
like lost children.
Love, just a word....
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Categories:
casualty, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Edges of Truth
a darkness simmers
shading the edges of truth
…..abiding in lies
©3/7/2022
Is Truth The First Casualty of War and Why is That
sponsor - Sotto Poet...
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Categories:
casualty, political, religion, usa,
Form:
Senryu
First and Last
The first casualty of war…
truth
The last casualty of war…
death
Truth fighting death,
beginning to end
Questions unanswered
—gravestones contend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...
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Categories:
casualty, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Sour Ambitions of a Puny Mind
Contrived to be relevant
An extreme subversive
of distorted concoctions
While having his stricken soul bare
And denigrated to a faceless crone
For his vicissitudes are an improbable casualty
Of a broken soul.......
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Categories:
casualty, character, identity, image, life,
Form:
Cinqku
Categories:
casualty, abuse, angst, anxiety, crush, garden,
Form:
Free verse
Battle Cry
When I think of you of you
my heart sings a battle cry,
you and no other my love
I never ask the cosmos why.
I charge forth so sure in my truth
I don't ask if it's just me
who feels the heat
or am I going to be another casualty....
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Categories:
casualty, love,
Form:
Free verse
Daniel
Daniel
Reminds me
That a name
That is not a casualty of war
Is a name that may not adorn
A war memorial gravestone
But is rather living among the walking dead
That came home to live out
The days of thunder
For countless others...
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Categories:
casualty, appreciation, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
The Strong Belief of Senator Hiram Warren Johnson
Johnson believed that
war’s proponents use falsehood
to garner support . . .
this wise man died the same day
the atomic bomb got dropped
April 5, 2022
For Sotto Poet's Is Truth The First Casualty Of War And Why Is That Poetry Contest...
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Categories:
casualty, war,
Form:
Tanka
Timorous Creeds
Dancing to the tune of iniquity,
Deviously artless in their silent retreat,
Elusively lashing out unjustly,
Pelting out timorous creeds;
A casualty in their vapid beliefs,
Brought upon by diligent lunacy,
Primed in erroneous ideologies....
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Categories:
casualty, character, conflict, endurance, humanity, journey, judgement, society,
Form:
Free verse
Casualty of a Chemical Warfare
They found him outside the hospital,
Conveniently.
How he managed to get there
All his brain was blown away now,
There he stood in the emergency room
Pronouncing simply and forevermore 'Uh.'
The heart wrenching lament of
A defeated weekend warrior....
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Categories:
casualty, abuse, city, drink, people, psychological,
Form:
Blank verse