Short Troops Poems

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


Premium Member Troops Deployed

The coffee quickly gets cold
in the time it takes to part.

Words start then stop
on this last morning,

or is it the first?
war


Premium Member Quiet At the Boarder Tonight

So imagine
A death ray
That turns
Troops to paste
Or makes the
Atoms in their
Body explode
Hmm dissonance
And quiet at 
The border tonight
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Peace and War

peace
hopeful, loving
writing, singing, chanting
protest, demonstration, troops, politics
marching, training, killing
dangerous, frightening
war
Form: Diamante

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

Stories

I read the stories
About dogs saving people 

And see other stories
About the president signing
Bills to put more troops 
To go where they don't want to go


Sons and Daughters Our Troops

Sons and Daughters
Over there
Sons and Daughters
Dying there
Sons and Daughters
We want them here
Sons and Daughters
They are all our 
Sons and Daughters
Form: Ode

Tit 4 Tat

The Captain's new wife was "true blue"
Whilst he stayed The Wives Club main screw
But rather than pout
When the Captain was out
She serviced his troops two by two
Form: Limerick

War

Mothers cry for fallen sons
The war is over they say
If Congress sent their young ones
Our troops would be home today

Third place in Chastushka Form contest (Gwendolen Rix)

Premium Member An Ode to my Belly Button

On Summer days an outie like a flirtatious poutie. My doc snipped just right. Button pops; it’s out of sight. Take a look-see; oops - closed to troops.
Form: Ode

Premium Member General George S Patton

High ranking General George S. Patton.
His mission the enemy to flatten.
To his troops he exclaimed without blinking,
If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.
Form: Clerihew

Call Home

Russian snipers can't hit Turkish drones
So Putin's troops call home on their phones
And every one says,
"Please send me a fes
Whilst there is still some meat on my bones!"
Form: Limerick

Peace Accord

How I wish troops were  withdrawn from the  battlefield;
And peace talks were honoured and  respected.
How I wish there was a time when guns were silent;
To end one of the bloodiest wars on earth !
Form: Imagism

Premium Member BEFORE THE CHARGE

BEFORE THE CHARGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the sun’s advance troops line the ridge like Indians in an old Western poised on the bright brim of day a moment before the charge
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Night Train Screams

Night train screaming down The hill, grinder for Metal rails in Earth’s dust. Painful reminder of war Carrying troops to battle. Her screams echo those of the dying soldiers.
Form: Sijo

Xylophones

Able bodied children dead! 
Even fate grieves hopelessly 
In justified keening, lamentation, mourning.
Not one pacifier! 
Queens royally sejant...
Troops under vultures' wings,
Xylophones yack zealously...
Form: ABC

We the Unwilling

"We the unwilling 
Led by the unqualified 
To kill the unfortunate
Die for the ungrateful"

A motto of the troops
Who served in Vietnam
And wrote it on the back
Of a chrome Zippo lighter.

© Paul Warren Poetry
war
Form: Ballad

Haiku of Random Thoughts

Clutching golden rings
The divorcees sign the end
Of a bad divorce

The stranger arrives
Grasping the death sentences
The locals refuse

Troops converge with drums
Signaling to the vultures
That prey has arrived
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Persecution

In the land of Armenia, Christians face death each day
The Land of Azerbajan, encroaches and causes affray
A line of troops however hold, the opposing sides at bay
It suprised  my mind to know (they are not from un or USA.'
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Life in the Trenches

    Disgruntled troops fall in line
      when the head honcho appears
    Long-time rebels go soft in the mouth

    Seems they now value their paychecks
      as they retreat to the womb
    of a company experiencing a boom
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

Civil War Marker: Vanderbilt Campus

History’s unpopular these days,
No one cares where Blues shot Greys,
Or where the tons of cannonballs were kept.
Union marker stands aloof, alone,
Monument of bronze and chisled stone,
And students giggle where the Northern troops once swept.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Our War

They call it war
Others say it is much more
People risking thier lives
Too protect thier husbands or wives
They took down two of ours
So we take down all of their buildings and cars
Its a war that will never end
So more and more troops we send
Form:

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:

Premium Member Dear Ant

I know your fastest movement
You're social; you live in groups
In hard work your time you spend
In Concord, you move in troops...!

I cannot, yet, fully grasp
Why do you wriggle under
My feet within my short gasp
And soon get torn asunder...!!

21 March 2023
Form: Rhyme

Razz Putin

God blitzed Sodom & Gomorrah
Including fauna & flora
Putin says, "Me, too!
I am just like you
Blasting that Box of Pandora!"  

n.b.  after blowing up their home
and family, Russian troops
tell survivors that they have
been liberated from the Nazis! 
Form: Limerick

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