Sometimes in SrebrenicaIt might be a city of paradise in Bosnia,
Its memories are as fragile as a vase
The horrors and tears stained on the canvas of time
And it's something that no one forgets.
With a child snatched from his mother,
Begging her to pray for his soul
As fear ascends like a dark cloud
Standing in line and awaitng the...
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Categories:
death, history, war,
Form: Free verse
Newtonian Remnants of The MindWords Not For The Faint Of Heart
Commemoration for those gone before
Affectation of all you continue to adore
Altercation at the start of a burgeoning world war
Annihilation of the injured, innocent and poor
Commensurate collusion of the parliamentary debate
Irreverent confusion at the celebration of the state
Degenerate delusion as they refuse to integrate...
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Categories:
war, life,
Form: Rhyme
The jeers, are all on you'Most so called world leaders have been abused.' Than eases the task of making
Them of use.' War is always the main ploy
The shop window , that can be employed.'
The display arranged, to entice.' Never a light
On the backdrop of velvety vice.' Its mostly
About (freedom and choice) and the medium
With strident voice.' With the marrow of...
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Categories:
voice, war,
Form: Rhyme
For Comparison CompetitionHappy Mother’s Day!
Hooray, should I say?
Nay! ‘Tis naught but disarray you fool
I dodge ducks – their beluga-toned feathers at least–
and the platinum pillows from whence they came
Whizzing by like my long four years of fame,
Eggs of pikachu hue, toast of darkest sinew
Oh no, I must go
She’s as happy as a blobfishy
How was I to...
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Categories:
war, abortion, childhood, funny, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Of Planet and PlagueAs if these lands were separate,
As if our minds weren't one,
As if land and sea were dichotomy, of darkness and the sun.
Pangea's cleavage tells the tale,
To fail here as but one.
All secedes from sense of we, on a planet's pedigree.
Family's but a split from those,
Whose own claim to be the same.
Round about in...
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Categories:
war, america, earth, life, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Geranium
When the pungent dust
and smoke settles
on empty streets
and on the rubble strewn,
bombed out blocks -
when all colour
has been bled out
of the land
leaving a shroud
of deathly grey,
what can we do
but weep
and let our tears
trickle down onto
that red geranium
clinging to life
in a battered pot
balanced
on the last windowsill
left standing
in our homeland.
...
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Categories:
war, children, hope, loss, people,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Wounded Warrior Oh, Wounded Warrior.
Battle lines and battle scars
hidden in plain sight.
Many of us now asking
was it really worth the fight?
Some of us wear uniforms.
Some of us wear shame.
It doesn’t really matter.
The outcome’s still the same.
Missing limbs, missing minds.
Broken, tossed about.
Whipped by winds of chaos.
So often left in doubt.
It’s in the heart, it’s in the eyes.
You’ll...
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Categories:
war, anger, conflict, courage, family,
Form: Rhyme
Cyber WarfareUpon my graduation from MIT,
they didn’t hand me a diploma.
They handed me a mask—
and a seat at the table of shadows.
They called me Director,
but in truth, I became a ghost in the wires—
a puppeteer of perception,
twisting public minds like wind turns leaves.
We didn’t drop bombs.
We dropped whispers—
tweets, headlines, a viral meme.
We knew the frequency of...
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Categories:
war, america, betrayal, conflict, evil,
Form: Free verse
Life is a battlefieldThis life is a fierce battlefield,
Little did I know before my birth,
My weapons should have been better honed,
So no earthly force could conquer me.
Friends I made while I was nobody,
Turned to foes when I sought to be somebody,
Those I loved with all my heart and soul
Blew pepper in my eyes when vision blurred.
Deceit...
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Categories:
war, extended metaphor, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
War
Scattered around is destruction and debris blast-
Things rendered shapeless and futile ,but to ooze
Disgust and infinitely depressing misery profuse;
What was a pleasure and intact heaven, is lost !
Paralysed life and sickly breath is just a doom;
What came up in the spirit and sprouts of affinity,
And the blooming faith finds its end to...
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Categories:
war,
Form: Lyric
The CIAI wore no uniform—
just silence and suits.
A ghost in global rooms,
a whisper behind the curtain.
I was a civilian,
but my job was war.
They called it "analysis,"
but what I did was study souls.
The psychology of power—
Presidents, rebels, kings.
We knew their childhoods,
their fears,
their fault lines.
I was trained to see through smiles.
To know,
from a handshake,
what could break a man.
Africa.
We...
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Categories:
war, abuse, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The War on RussiaThis war was not born in the fields of Ukraine,
But in boardrooms, treaties, and promises betrayed.
In 1990, beneath quiet lamps and whispered words,
The West told Russia,
“No inch eastward.”
History remembers. Power forgets.
Then came the boots of NATO,
Not with bombs, but with intent—
Expanding silently,
Like shadows stretching across time.
Each step east, each vow broken,
Tightened the circle until it...
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Categories:
betrayal, conflict, war,
Form: Free verse
Dragon TongueDragon tongue
Ill be your dragon
I see your smile
Through your alien face
I didn't mean to abandon you
In time when the army needs us most
Without the mass graves
How can we take this land
Just leave em for dead
But don't kill them
That beautiful spot
On the hill with the flowers in bloom
Now could be someone's tomb
Forfeit the blue...
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Categories:
war, abuse, chocolate, sky, words,
Form: Free verse
Gunner
Gunner
What has woken you, Gunner? What is it you hear?
Can you sense the beat of heavy engines drawing near?
There’s been no alert, Gunner, the lads are all at ease.
But you know something’s up, don’t you? Won’t you tell us please?
I heard that little growl, Gunner, low and in your chest.
Is the time right now, Gunner?...
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Categories:
dog, war,
Form: Rhyme
'STEM' means Stagnation
The most popular educational trend
Courses labeled as ‘STEM’
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Offerings that lead to destruction and wrath
Nuclear fusion and fission they...
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Categories:
war, education, irony, science, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of War Poems
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