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Childhood War Poems

These Childhood War poems are examples of War poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of War Childhood poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Forgotten Field of Forever
Forgotten field of forever
I knew you once . . .
in daffodil days
when I wandered in wisteria ways.
Sprightly I skipped and rarely tripped.
Hope really did spring...

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Categories: childhood, war,



BLACK AND WHITE DAYS
BLACK AND WHITE DAYS

When I think of my childhood back at home,
I remember it mostly in monochrome.
In the second world war, when times were austere,
I...

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Categories: childhood, color, memory, war,

Premium Member FBI FRAUD
As i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11...

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Categories: war, anxiety, family, hurt, military,

Premium Member Coming of Age
Dangerous Fools and Evil Idiots
They agree to disagree
Always spitefully fastidious
About each other’s pedigree
Always at the war, that goes
With no hope to prove who’s right
There’s no...

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Categories: war, philosophy,

Premium Member Children of the Planets
We are children of the planets,
We are children made of stars.
We once believed in a magic old man
Riding in an airborne sled.
With a bounty of...

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Categories: war, childhood, children, christmas, giving,



Premium Member After the War
The old man…who has lived long…who has seen this a hundred times before
was asked, “What he thinks is the saddest part of war?”

“The tragedy of...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, dream, war,

Blood Nights
(It's really hard to ignore the videos of the injured kids... It really is heart wrenching) 

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And then the night turned red
And screams were...

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Categories: war, child abuse, childhood, dark,

Premium Member A World of Wonder?
Sitting in the beauty and wonder of the mountains makes me wonder…

How can a world filled with so much beauty…not be beautiful?
How can a world...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war,

All This Time
Fists so clenched
Face so red
Spit hitting my face
Was it something I said

I shouldn’t have touched your books
You’re worthless
You’re nothing
But I just wanted to look
You’ll never...

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Categories: war, abuse, boy, child abuse,

Premium Member Usa Memorial Day
To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of...

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Categories: america, childhood, freedom, war,

Premium Member Little Collateral Damage
Children's lives lost to war - a grave mistake, 
Sad unforgiving abnormality.
Damage, collateral, for no one's sake,
Spurns norms of humankind's morality. 

Failure to survive beyond...

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Categories: children, death, war,

Premium Member Please Come To My House
please come to my house 
I have a pretty blue pool
bicycles and rabbits
there's a lot that we can do
we can climb in the high trees
we...

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Categories: war, anxiety, child abuse, childhood,

Premium Member Frozen Solid
w I n d
      swinging heavy with flakes
winter's underbelly chilling fingers and toes

on a Kyiv hill
in wounded wisps of snow
two...

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Categories: war, allusion, angst, childhood, children,

Premium Member Thoughts On the Children of War
I wish we adults would think of our children more…
before we decide to fight…before we go to war.

I wish we could remember our words are...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, war,

Nationalism, Not God, Is Behind War
FROM A COMMENT TO ONE OF MY GOOD READERS/ Soupers:

"It's a blessing to have known Jesus through one's parents. I was 30 when I began...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war, africa, childhood, community, history,


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