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War Poems | Examples of War Poetry

Premium Member 1776-
the smell of smoke a token of a battle a war freedoms war cry ~ war tween states, country they want dire freedom hosted war of seventeen- ~ seventy-six year tea crates thrown in harbor seas fights America 07/14/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025© ...

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Categories: war, adventure, analogy, conflict, corruption,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Bird
Did not the Bird, warn us, by his airs? Fewer by day...more by night – the owls survive longer! Did not rodents warn us? Depleted by owls, they both now suffer. Better men open their eyes to Light – for, even swooping shadows, will not long survive such night…....

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Categories: war, abuse, bird, christian, community,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Pacifist
I do not have the answers you seek...why ask? You know I don’t. Besides, my answers are not for your meek, who grow but do not grow – reap what little you sow!~ and already, deep down, know. Then, why not a firmer hand? Why not more, a committed heart?~ thinking...not God nor the devil would leave one, such as you, even...

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Categories: war, america, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Young
whistles blare gun powder in the air lead pours overhead I can't wait to feel my bed I line up my rifle breathe and squeeze my orders are to strife I run empty so I freeze the quit nights are haunted this conflict was unwanted one more tally added; I can't mask it make sure they spell it right on my casket...

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Categories: war, anxiety, humanity, men, military,
Form: Rhyme
Love is war
--- ## Love is a War I know what happened when the love that couldn't stay away from me for even a moment became distant. In that moment, I didn't break; I felt pain within the pain, and to assert my right over it, I hunted it down. Don't ask today, the game is over, Vaishali Baskaran....

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Categories: war, death,
Form: Narrative



Wartime
Honesty versus Lies Love versus Hate Respect versus Contempt Real versus Fake Peace versus Conflict Compassion versus Heartless Kind versus Cruel Calm versus Violence Why are these wars we're fighting They all shall have the same end Because When it's the Children of the Light Versus The Children of the Darkness The Children of the Light will always win ...

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Categories: war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Lubricant Chance
meant to be... grabbed with both hands. one can only hold on ...

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Categories: war, conflict, meaningful, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fragile Truce
truce fragile; a ceasefire unlikely to hold. ...

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Categories: anxiety, conflict, political, war,
Form: Lanterne
Karma Dogma
If intent and actions are cause and effect and influence the future what you give is what you get and yet what about children caught in the crossfire when very young murdered in man's mire they have not yet begun to live and love is all they have to give so much for karma symbolised by the lotus flower but whereabouts is it in their most needed hour forsaken by fortune they...

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Categories: war, children, death, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member TEXAS FLOODING WARS
TEXAS FLOODING WARS (Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature) The flood waters came, leaving lost lives washed away; eyes flooded with tears: Nature herself, warring with collateral disaster:- So many children won’t be thirsty anymore; flood waters drowned them:- Let us thirst for quenching peace: our human nature flooded:- ...

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Categories: war, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Nuclear War
The alpha males stand at the precipice of power each attempting to prove They are the greatest Resting on the backs of stupidity a nuclear war one percent chance of total annihilation of life on the planet As we destroy our ecological systems ninety-nine percent of the world dying from nuclear radiation and the direct...

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Categories: war, conflict, environment, planet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Face of War, 1941, Salvador Dali
O moon, the blood-rose pearl of my aching soul, the ghostly seer of hourglass woes ~ heed these wistful words ~ forgive the dreadful quivers between cacophonous quiescence, tremors within lungs of lament, spears of piercing p a i n ... Read through...

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Categories: war, angst, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Here Smells Hell
Hell smells on this nice land Land where there is severe killing Killing of innocent people People hating their neighbors Neighbors with grudge Grudge against everything Everything has decayed. Decayed, as morals are in danger Danger of living on this land Land with endless fire Fire from the morning until in the evening Evening, when death squadrons chop and shoot Shoot and set ablaze fellow...

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Categories: war, abuse, conflict, hate, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revised Nursery Rhyme No 3 - Little Miss Tough
Little Miss Tough Sat on her duff whining ‘bout ‘The Amerikan Way’ Along came a missile ...

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Categories: war, america, fear, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Virgin Dead
The seeds of war are planted in the soil of greed within the garden of an unholy trinity. Children of the poor sent off to war to weave the satin feathers of a murder of political crows. The war machine is a stomping beast spitting out bones vomiting over the centuries. The children of the poor taking their last ride to the heart of...

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Categories: war,
Form: Rhyme

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