Categories:
conflict, humanity, pain, war,
Form: Lanterne
When Holy Hands Drop BombsWhat makes it okay to bomb a nation?
Kill so many who don’t have a station?
Destroy a country, cities and families?
Women, babies, children and men—all tragedies—
Who never chose this war… suffer again and again.
Across the globe, a catch twenty-two
Do what I say, not as I do.
What happened to the Fifth Commandment?,
In a world where religion is...
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Categories:
war, allah, angel, bible, conflict,
Form: Free verse
CEASEFIRE
Categories:
war, death, imagery, poetry, political,
Form: Lanterne
Mushroom In Bloom
Categories:
war,
Form: Haiku
CHILDREN OF WARThe night came with horrors
Children of Palestine, those whose youth came to an end at bomb blast.
Names forgotten on a trigger of a gun,
WHOSE sons will never see the sun?
Children of Gaza who ran after drones thinking they are toys
Sounds of terror leaving limbs scattered like graffiti on burnt walls.
children of Yemen, whose smiles faced...
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Categories:
war, children, death, funeral,
Form: Ballad
SYRIANS MADE A MISTAKEPeacefully they had marched on
Voices raised, not fists
Pleading for freedom,
For a chance to breathe without fear.
But what truly is freedom?
Is it worth twelve million displaced souls
Cities leveled into dust
And dreams buried beneath rubble?
What began as peaceful
Became a wound the world blinked past
Sores etched into memory
Scars broadcast, then forgotten.
The headlines have moved on
But the grief remains
Mothers...
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Categories:
12th grade, evil, war,
Form: Free verse
Armageddon
A battle set for a place and time
Millions gather armed and ready
Angels look on for the end times chime
Victory is assured already
The ground will get a crimson hue
As prophecy comes into view
The world shall know
Whose kingdom has Gloryto show
The battle's over, victory divine
As people...
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Categories:
war,
Form: Rhyme
ceasefire
Categories:
peace, war,
Form: Lanterne
ceasefire
Categories:
angst, peace, war,
Form: Lanterne
Imbeciles
Have you seen what's going on
in Afghanistan
and all that's gone wrong
caused by the Taliban
driving the country
into rack and ruin
with impunity
is what they're doing
it's what they've done
it would be good
to put them on the run
better yet eliminate
those Barbarians at the gate
yes it would be best
to dress each one
in a suicide vest
then blow their tiny minds
up the...
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Categories:
war, how i feel, violence,
Form: Rhyme
CEASEFIREFor “Light up the Lanterne" contest, Nette Onlad, sponsor 6/17/2025
CEASEFIRE
peace
hearts mend
shadows fade
hope blooms softly
grace
...
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Categories:
peace, war,
Form: Lanterne
MAKE POWER LOVE AND IT CAN BE SHAREDWhat truly is power
Is it control or the silence that follows it?
Is it born from bullets and broken promises
Or from the love we dismiss as weakness?
Can power ever be shared
like bread split between hungry Sudanese hands
as if leadership were a meal
the poor can taste in equal halves?
Or is power what poisons the soil
the reason Sudanese...
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Categories:
war, 12th grade, africa, poverty,
Form: Free verse
MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD
We are all poems in motion
our beauty shaped by the choices we make
the words we speak
the paths we take.
So let’s write something beautiful.
Let’s choose peace instead of war
kindness instead of cruelty
love that doesn’t ask to be earned.
Be a sonnet not a dirge
carry hope in your lines
leave room for others in your verses
and rhythm that heals...
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Categories:
war, 12th grade, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
Stop This warStop the War
Stop the war — we cry to every sky,
Where smoke replaces stars and children die.
From Gaza’s grief to Iran’s silent screams,
The world is choking on abandoned dreams.
O Israel, lay down your wrathful hand,
No justice blooms in blood-soaked sand.
No future rises on a shattered wall,
When vengeance is the only call.
And you, O powers...
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Categories:
war, humanity, peace, truth, violence,
Form: Free verse
MemorialOne day a year to mark a sacrifice profound
One day a year to visit the ground
One day a year for the bugle to sound
One day a year a nation’s memory is found
Hardly enough for the terrible cost
Hardly enough for the lives that were lost
One day a year for the flags to adorn
One day a year...
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Categories:
war, death, memorial, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of War Poems
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anti, biological, brave, children, civil, cold war, cyber, economic, history, kids, nuclear, peace, political, sad, soldier, spanish, time, vietnam, world, ww1, ww2
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Poems Related to War
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