Short Soldier Poems

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


Premium Member War Memorial

field of red poppies
shrine-like aura of petals
salute the fallen













Composed: January 24, 2021
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Of People and Cows

When a human soldier's slain in battle
like so many cattle,
he's called a hero in defeat
while cattle are called meat.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Namesake

My grandfather's name
Was given to me at birth
To honor the man
That my father never knew
Having died in World War Two
Form: Tanka

Premium Member A Kinder War

My parents said their vows
        on Veterans Day

     Soldiers enlisting for marriage
        A kinder war in a way
Form: Rhyme

Over and Out

His daily conflicts are over,
Missed by his young lover.

This soldier's battles cease,
Death came and now is at peace.
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Charlie Sheen - Clerihew

Charlie Sheen
 Once played a soldier on the big screen
 But he turned to booze and women
Living large on Two and a Half Men
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Just a Thought

Thinker,
failure,
soldier,
sailor,
airman,
dead man,
grief.
Politician,
preacher,
blind man,
teacher,
banker,
usurer,
thief.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Time To Rejoice

Her face bathed in tears of mirth; her soldier father back from deployment. 



Date written: 03/22/2020
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Clerihew Wilson

For Dennis Bruce Wilson of Thame
as a hobby poetry was hid game
Famed for his WWIi elegy
'A Common Soldier' for all to see
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member country living

an actor he was typecast

a soldier hit by a blast

but as of today

he's out mowing hay

farming a dramatic past.
Form: Limerick

Soldier of Christ

S-oldier
U-pholds
G-od's
O-rder

Topic: 134th Birthday of Bro. Felix Y. Manalo (May 10,2020) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Army Rangers Rescue Ufo Abductee

Up on  mountain top.
Just don't know how I got here.
Army Rangers  rescued me.
Says UFO kidnapped me.
Sure lucky I was let go.
Form: Tanka

Hope

holding on to this
the one thing that i have
is this one picture
of my number one soldier
in hopes that I'll see him again
Form: Tanka

Soldier

amazing
how a man can stand so proud
amongst the rubble
and the snow
with eyes so pained
in boots that won't shine anymore
Form:

Premium Member Gold Star

When a soldier falls, they fall also
Who loved him. And we, who so
Serve in kind, must see they, too,
Are never left
Behind
Form: Rhyme

Paul Edicts

A soldier of the Viet Cong
Decided to visit Hong Kong
He wanted to see
Xi strangle the free
Because compromise is SO wrong!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Last Rites

angry clouds crying over freshly-prepared grave soldier is home now
written July 8, 2021
Form: Haiku

Hands of Stone

he could hop
and boxes
in that game he had fame
had punch
made you hunch
it would break bones
the call him
HANDS OF STONE

The Smartest Cavaliers

The smartest cavaliers at the command 'To horse!' 
contrive to be in time for both a horse and whores.

Volodymyr Knyr 
2014
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Conflict

I did not know hate
till I was told to kill him,
it is so normal
I universal soldier
guilty as the enemy.

© Harry J Horsman 2013
war
Form: Tanka

Dead Ringer of a Folk Singer, Humdinger of a Gunslinger

Fairly
Squarely
Rarely
Barely
Shot from the hip fairly, squarely true
Loaded clip but, rarely, barely drew




1-19-2018
Form: Tyburn

Premium Member Bet the Farm on It

  As sure as scientists ask why 
    and winged creatures fly

  Politicians will lie ~
             and soldiers will die
Form: Couplet

Inhuman War

THE soldier nvades
foreign land...
Dead or alive
he laughs and cries...
alive or dead
nature withers
and humanity suffers...!

Premium Member On the March

Soldiers, rucksacks in place, marching, calling cadence: "Sound off, one two. Sound off, three four." "Hooah" 6/4/15
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Lorraine Cemetery

Near Saint Avold, France,
More than ten thousand heroes
Whisper from the soil.
Form: Haiku

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