The World in AshesThe World in Ashes
A crimson tide floods dawn's first light,
Smoke curls upward, choking sight.
The guns don't sleep, the stars don't shine,
Children search for scraps, not time.
Ash falls where blossoms used to bloom,
Homes are rubble, streets a tomb.
Steel birds shriek, and sirens cry,
Yet none can answer—only die.
Kings draw borders with lines of flame,
But hunger knows no...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, conflict, confusion, fire, heartbroken,
Form: Verse
A FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE OF WAR AND ITS DESTINYA FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE
OF WAR AND ITS DESTINY
Murder is a crime
Unless it’s in war;
Then it’s all legal:
A death penalty
For the innocent:-
Our reality,
Is not of heaven;
Wars have no angels:
Only its demons;
Scavengers of peace:-
Yet, let’s be of faith,
Laboring in love
God is on our side,
And has canvassed hope:
ARMAGEDDON:-
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, allegory, extended metaphor, hope,
Form: Free verse
THE SUPREME LEADER
A gentle man of peace who greatly respects human life
Has faced the difficult decision he must stand and fight,
Well within his Powers to end a terrorist world-wide strife.
He didn’t start the conflicts or wild and fiery contagion
But he finished it quickly, with no reserve or consternation.
An evil regime leader challenged him with threats and lies,
With...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, america, conflict, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WARTHE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR
Sown love reaps world peace,
While sown hate will reap world war:
Power its sower:-
Sharers of love will sow peace:
Profiteers of war, sow hate:-
World peace uprooted,
War’s deforestation plows
World devastation:-
Armageddon coming:
God plowing us a new day:-
Be ever mindful,
War is a power monger’s
Child of destruction;
And will be chastised by God:
Its navel giver uprooted:-
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Thoughts On War QuestionsThoughts On War Questions
When is war righteous?
Isn’t murder a crime?
Does not war murder?
Can’t collateral
Death be a crime too?:
War can’t be righteous;
Murder is a crime:-
Wars do have murders,
Collateral deaths
Can be murders also:-
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, allegory, introspection, murder, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Song That you can Never SingThere are songs that you will never sing
There are lips that will never speak
There are voices that you will never hear
And there are some hearts that you cannot move
For the world don’t know the rhythm
Stay on the path that you are on and destiny
Will compose a new song
The rhythm is bellowing in my ear
But...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, america, business, courage, international,
Form: Prose
Still the Dust Singsafter ‘The waste Land’, by T.S. Eliot
I met a woman on a glitching screen,
her face a whisk of pixels and prayer.
She spoke of shattered systems and survived code,
“The cloud remembers everything,” she said, "but forgets what matters.”
A rat hurried through my feed at dawn,
past memes and headlines, each a kind...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, april, endurance, loss, recovery
Form: Lyric
Pause And RememberFor Jason and his Argonauts, golden wool was theirs to fleece
For the British, Iran's oil was theirs to drill and steal
In '53 the West led Iran's democracy into a tyrant's peace
Now we call the trouble since all part of God's grand will
So many harsh lessons are learned in winter's darkest days
Only to be forgotten as...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, history,
Form: Quatrain
A DropOn June 21, 2025 U.S. military made strikes against three nuclear facilities in Iran called Operation Midnight Hammer.
Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan
No longer places in Iran
And gone at once atomic clamor
It took a drop of "Midnight Hammer"
Jun 22, 2025
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war,
Form: Rhyme
A Crossroads for Iran
When missiles fly
The Mullahs lie
They bide their time
To turn the tide
Their constant bluster
Now short of luster
For why we ask
No God sent task
To build a bomb
With feigned aplomb
Their word to spread
Among the dead
They have their place
To find God's grace
Not trample lives
Like stinging hives
Fear and temerity
No road to prosperity
But that's what they seek
Control of the meek
A proud...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, america, arabic, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
To Coo and to Sing
Meant to coo and to sing
doves now wear war wings
A world that’s up in flames
a coo cannot reclaim
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, bird, peace, song, sound,
Form: Couplet
The Argonauts
Categories:
mythology, war,
Form: Haiku
IN AN AWARENESS CASE OF WARIN AN AWARENESS CASE OF WAR
Murder is a crime,
Unless it’s in war;
Then it’s all legal:
The death penalty
For the innocent:-
Our reality,
Is not of heaven:-
Wars have no angels;
Only its demons:
Scavengers of peace:-
Oh, let’s be of faith,
Laboring in love;
God is on our side,
And has canvassed hope:
Armageddon:-
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
TODAYS CULTIVATED WARS
TODAY’S CULTIVATED WARS
War's rumors are plowed;
War sown seeds germinating:
Fruits of peace rotting:-
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, allegory, hyperbole, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
The Stage of LoveIt is Saturday everybody and I want everyone to be happy
Daylight is drawing near and there are lots of things to share
Putin is fighting the moon and the silent ones will be coming home soon, with tears in their eyes and nothing to show for their
many years of sacrifice.
They all gather on the open...
Continue reading...
Categories:
war, beautiful, community, emotions, environment,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of War Poems
Read wonderful war poetry on the following sub-topics:
anti, biological, brave, children, civil, cold war, cyber, economic, history, kids, nuclear, peace, political, sad, soldier, spanish, time, vietnam, world, ww1, ww2
and more.
Definition | What is War in Poetry?
Poems Related to War
anti war, battle, battleship, bloodshed, civil war, cold war, combat, conflict, fighting, gun, hostility, korean war, peace, peacetime, strife, submarine, vietnam war, wage war, warfare, world war i, world war ii, wwi, wwii