Get Your Premium Membership

Verdun Poems - Poems about Verdun

Verdun Poems - Examples of all types of poems about verdun to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for verdun.

No Supper
...No Supper Round as a planet, dark as the galaxy the interior looked like the last battle in Verdun the early spring of 1914. It had been a healthy preparation of carrots, beans turnips, potato......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, best friend, fun,
Form: Blitz



Premium Member Ekphrasis On Morning On the Siene Near Giverny
...Your smile shines~ as the new morn breaks upon wisteria water reflecting sunlight kisses on sleepy teal trees. Your laughters echo~ upon the verdun leaves that radiate a lilac shade as......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Unknown Warrior Comes Home
...The Unknown Warrior Comes Home by Robert J (Bob) Moore © Nov.2018 From the battlefields on the Western front four warriors, are going home plain coffins covered by the flag these warriors were......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If the Day Dawns, At Last - Yuliya
...If the day dawns at last that your heart bows to service, acknowledges, longs to ‘pay forward’ past debts, I’ll praise God. If you live Life of Grace (shown to people around you), to mentors, your......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, appreciation, blessing, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Irises
...orchidlike delicate petals ~ oozing in shades of teal and admiral are like dancing ballerinas hailing for the first kiss of rain whilst flaxen and golden grasses are softly cascading honey fl......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis



Summer In the Sun
...SUMMER IN THE SUN There was a young man from Verdun Who lazed in the hot summer sun. He reclined, all revealing, Till his skin started peeling, Then he said, “I reckon I’m don......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, summer, sun,
Form: Limerick
The Living Dead
...My mind wanders to the stillness of a field where wild asters used to stud the grass with blue I seem to hear the echo of a voice Lamenting over the vast stretches where my thoughts cling H......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, adventure, beach, beauty, best
Form: Free verse
Armistice
...Eleventh hour— young men perished, their hopes and dreams all lost: Ypres, The Marne, Verdun of the Eleventh day— silent, fell guns, and stillness took the front: Argonne, Belleau Woo......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, war, world war i,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, the Ubiquity of Perception: a Collaboration With Jonathon Durno
... Man makes this reality It's up to you test Clarity comes well born to dawn...Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, adventure, community,
Form: Lanterne
The Ubiquity of Perception
...Clarity comes well born to dawn With an undying, insatiable rage, Gone are the times when love was ours That permitted a wit to gauge Free men once said that time based lies Do marketh and str......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, history, leadership, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Moonscape
...Moonscape In the cemetery there are twelve thousand dead. They fought and died for Paschendale. Such slaughter took place. One hundred and forty thousand Allies are missing. Fighting and dying i......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, anger, death, history, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Three Cousins Played
...Three cousins played a “game’ of war A map of Europe spread across the floor No adults there to keep the score As each of them wanted more and more Three of four empires lay upon that map As t......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, war,
Form: Verse
The Tommie's Lot
...While general’s drink their claret wine, In taverns far behind the lines The English tommy spills another wine On Flanders table, made from mothers pride In front of guns in faltered stride The swee......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, war,
Form: Free verse
Tactics
...in a rut no, a trench. pulled under like Ypres or Verdun walls held up by bodies of dearly departed. we gather here today because we have to. so chew the dirt from fingernails, swim this mud s......Read the rest...
Categories: verdun, death, history, political, war
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things