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Short World War I Poems

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


The Art of War
Dhoka dhoka dhoka,
Moqa Chaka Choka.....

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Categories: world war i, betrayal, fire, games, pain, war, world war
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Caution Advised
in the hammock of summer
across the Channel
bees are buzzing...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world war i, summer,
Form: Haiku
Haiku For Alphabet Soup
My alphabet soup,
it is getting very cold,
my microwave broke....

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Categories: world war i, beautiful, hate, humor, metaphor, political, sweet, world
Form: Haiku
The Man Who Lies Here
The man who lies here loved and hated humankind
In equal measures...

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Categories: memorial day, power, world war ii,
Form: Epitaph
Happy
Happy

Being happy not
True and is false or
Is a mist of clouds...

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Categories: world war i, best friend, trust, war, winter, wisdom, world,
Form: Haiku



Eastern Front
he was sent eastward
the carnage was horrifying
it was unbearable...

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Categories: world war ii,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mercury Marquis
mercury marquis
built like a world war two tank
terrific first car...

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Categories: world war i, car,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Wwiii
Will the final chapter of the book "World War III" be titled "OOPS!!"...

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Categories: world war i, satire, war,
Form: Monoku
P-51
Rolls Royce Merlin purrs. 
Local owned P-51 
World War II long past...

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Categories: world war i, remember
Form: Haiku
Optimistic Leaders
World war at the door
nations wait a little more
for death to ignore...

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Categories: world war i, history, war
Form: Haiku
The Unconventional Conflict
The brew in Mid East
Is a high back that trigger,
Another World War....

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Categories: world war i, conflict, culture, identity, racism,
Form: Haiku
An Ocean of Loneliness
It would take something like a world war to convince me I wasn';t alone....

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Categories: world war i, depression
Form: I do not know?
The Queen At the Cenotaph
Is there no blacker shade of black,
For my suit, in order to look back?...

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Categories: world war i, bereavement, courage, death, history, remembrance day, world
Form: Couplet
Fear
World War III beckons
with every toddler tweet 
and stupid grandstand....

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world war i, political,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Armagedden
world war, one, two, three? 
cocky president's finger 
armageddon, yikes...

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Categories: world war i, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Oscar-Ku 43 -Patton
both loved and disliked
General "Old Blood and Guts"—
triumph and ordeal...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world war i, conflict, courage, leadership, usa, violence, world war
Form: Haiku
Renenga Prac
rat
desoultion renagde parrot
pig
resolution separation pay
Tyrannosaurus...

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Categories: world war ii, write, writing,
Form: Rengay
Premium Member Vase With Red Poppies- Van Gogh
Red poppies in hearts do fill- connected by war in conflict still. 

19.7.23....

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Categories: emotions, world war i,
Form: Monoku
Casualties of the Last World War
The vultures gather
For the great feast of the Lord.
Buzzards are circling......

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Categories: world war i, animals, death, faith, happiness, loss, people, sad,
Form: Haiku
The Sunken City
Afar in gusty plains,

Moved a massive silhouette

of the sunken city.

-Ism...

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Categories: adventure, city, nature, world war i, world
Form: Haiku
Berlin 1945
Wild galloping horse
Berlin nineteen forty-five
Hoof pounding the Earth

10/01/17...

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© Jamie Pan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war, world war ii,
Form: Haiku
Thank You Goodyear
Airships flew the skies
World War One the Goodyear war
Their blimp still flies high...

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Categories: world war i, america, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Die Truppen
Wer sind diese truppen?
Das sind die Einsatzgruppen.
Woher kommen sie?
Hölle… Hölle....

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Categories: history, holocaust, jewish, society, world war ii,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Our Soldiers In World War Ii
Our soldiers in world War II fought in Italy
till now we narrate with glory their history...

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Categories: world war i, allegory, allusion, blessing, metaphor, soldier, tribute, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Meeting and Greeting In Airports, Coach and Railway Stations
On arrival we kiss.
On departure we weep.
Lives so different merge.
Lives so similar diverge....

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Categories: world war i, farewell, kiss, romantic love, travel, voyage, war,
Form: Romanticism