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War Verse Poems

These War Verse poems are examples of Verse poems about War. These are the best examples of Verse War poems written by international poets.


The spiritual horror of psychological torture
When the mind slowly decays
It doesn’t just affect the mind 
It affects the body, the spirit, the soul
The spiritual horror of psychological torture 
Is how...

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Categories: verse, discrimination, horror, prejudice, psychological,



White Lace Cascades
White lace cascades,
string beads of light
fall from a quiet sky.

There’s a soulful eye-gaze—
not quite seen,
but deeply felt—
as if the night itself is watching,
studying the stars,
navigating...

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Categories: verse, appreciation, beauty, blessing,

Life is a battlefield
This life is a fierce battlefield,
Little did I know before my birth,
My weapons should have been better honed,
So no earthly force could conquer me.

Friends I...

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Categories: verse, extended metaphor, life, metaphor,

When I Depart, Remember Me Softly
I did not come to win the world—
I came to feel it bleed.
To taste the silence in the hungry mouth,
To weep where no one dared...

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Categories: verse, absence, death, death of

Writer for eternity
Writer for eternity by Adejola Joseph Author of Cracks On The Walls (poetry) 2022. An award winning poet from Osun State Nigeria. 
Writer for eternity
To...

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Categories: verse, celebration,



The CIA
I wore no uniform—
just silence and suits.
A ghost in global rooms,
a whisper behind the curtain.
I was a civilian,
but my job was war.

They called it "analysis,"
but...

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Categories: verse, abuse, betrayal, conflict, corruption,

Nurturing Black
?Black soil 'n' seeds
?Black waters
?Black axe
?Black trees
?All grew the girl into a woman
?
?Black house
?Black home
?Black hue
?Black terrain
?All grew the boy into a man
?
?Black weather
?Black wind
?Black...

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Categories: verse, black love, uplifting,

The War on Russia
This war was not born in the fields of Ukraine,
But in boardrooms, treaties, and promises betrayed.
In 1990, beneath quiet lamps and whispered words,
The West told...

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Categories: verse, betrayal, conflict, war,

Dragon Tongue
Dragon tongue

Ill be your dragon
I see your smile
Through your alien face
I didn't mean to abandon you
In time when the army needs us most
Without the mass...

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Categories: verse, abuse, chocolate, sky, words,

Anuruedoahu
In Biafra, when we drank from the tilting
cusps of dank leaves and washed with the spittle
of cassava,
the sun scorched like hell.

Añuruedoahu*, the oasis of war,...

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Categories: verse, eulogy, nostalgia,

Premium Member War
A cloud bursts,
and the earth drinks -- 
the sun shines,
and the earth ripens;
the moon, sanctuary
of werewolves and Love,
keeps alive our fictions. 
...

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Categories: verse, character, environment, humanity, introspection,

Premium Member Black Hole Love
Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what...

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Categories: verse, husband, relationship,

Ash Tree Gospel
They buried my name in a saltless grave
and left my voice in the bark of an ash tree.
I was born breathless,
wrapped in the skin of...

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Categories: verse, 10th grade, 11th grade,

Gone Are the Days
I look back to the halcyon days
When Mrs Johnson,
A comely widow, ran fruitful
Errands for the new railway, and for
Our undeveloped district.
A frail, little maid in...

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Categories: verse, death, depression, mother, mother

thoughts of a teenager
what's that?
who's this?
what am i doing?
why am i here?

i have so many questions
about, well, everything.
i'm expected to know so much
but i feel like i don't...

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Categories: verse, depression, emotions, grief, lonely,


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