Death Veteran Poems

These Death Veteran poems are examples of Veteran poems about Death. These are the best examples of Veteran Death poems written by international poets.

WHAT BEGAN WITH PETER GARGANO TREASURY OF THE KNIGHTS IF COLUMBUS SAN CARLOS BEACH IGNITING A CAR BOMB IN MY FACE HE THEN HIRED JAMAICAN

© Yolanda Joy Nicholsen  

Dear Ma, if this letter finds
Your gentle hands, your quiet eyes,
Knowing I have fallen where silence climbs,
Beneath a blood-rubbed, broken sky.

The wind here howls like

© Madison Power  

Respire

Make of me a banished son
To walk this world alone
With heavy heart and heavy load
The boulder and the stone

Make of me a loyal friend
A soldier

© Daniel Mack  

Deus Volt I scream by my brother's side,
a distinct bell rings measuring 39mm wide,
high stepping over the deconstructed rubble,
klashnikov volley is what's giving us trouble,
our

© Garrett Bass  

Recently I watched a program on the Vietnam war
And I realized even more what these soldiers stood for
They were living in trenches that they called

© Tony Speranza  

I stood my watch into the night
Even though it was cold
Even though it was hot
In countries I could hardly spell

I trained every day to be

© Kenneth Birlin  

A Flock of Startled Birds

He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His

© Brian K. Bilverstone  

The Devil Within

I’ve paid nevermind to the world ending, it has ended for me many times, only to begin again each morning.
For behind these once

© William Vrtis  

My body is a temple,
That is all but an empty shell
of what I use to be.
Only thoughts to myself,
of years gone by,
Sensing another life at

© Shirley Hudson  

His Limbo Soliloquy                      

© Carl Papa Palmer  

Visions unendurable
Thoughts not erasable
Tracers of red
Running through my heard

Yellow smoke for the dust off
Brings tears
Death and destruction
Memories of loss

Haunting images
Ghosts haunting me
Blood on my hands
Unable

© Bobby May  

Farewell, Friend


To heaven went our special friend who took his last full breath.

        A Vet who cared for

© Sandra Haight  

Come on boys' sign your name, train them, and send them out to fight. 
Praise them once a year, let 22 die with a red

© Fabiola Rios   

I AM THE VETERAN

I fought in the trenches of World War I
In the foxholes of World War II
I was in the Korean Conflict
And the rice

© Curtis Moorman  

Draw strength, draw strength from those who died
Make peace with those who lived
For in our memories all survive
Their deeds their times outlive

For peace they went,

© Brian Densham