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War Poems | Examples of War Poetry

The World in Ashes
The 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...

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Categories: war, conflict, confusion, fire, heartbroken,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE OF WAR AND ITS DESTINY
A 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:- ...

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Categories: war, allegory, extended metaphor, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: war, america, conflict, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR
THE 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:- ...

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Categories: war, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Thoughts On War Questions
Thoughts 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:- ...

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Categories: war, allegory, introspection, murder, perspective,
Form: Free verse



The Song That you can Never Sing
There 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...

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Categories: war, america, business, courage, international,
Form: Prose
Still the Dust Sings
after ‘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...

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Categories: war, april, endurance, loss, recovery
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Pause And Remember
For 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...

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Categories: war, history,
Form: Quatrain
A Drop
On 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 ...

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Categories: war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: war, america, arabic, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ...

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Categories: war, bird, peace, song, sound,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Argonauts
winged ram golden pelt t e ...

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Categories: mythology, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member IN AN AWARENESS CASE OF WAR
IN 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:- ...

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Categories: war, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member TODAYS CULTIVATED WARS
TODAY’S CULTIVATED WARS War's rumors are plowed; War sown seeds germinating: Fruits of peace rotting:- ...

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Categories: war, allegory, hyperbole, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
The Stage of Love
It 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...

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Categories: war, beautiful, community, emotions, environment,
Form: Narrative

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