Children War Poems

Memorial Day 2025

Soon Memorial day will be upon us once more,
And unhappy memories of the past will be excavated again.
My younger Brother was a highly...

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Broken souls and disillusioned dreams.
(Drowning in a sea of dread…)
Broken toys and angels without wings.
(Fragile things…)
Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers.
(No light,...

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God laughs when fools behave like racists
All persecuted individuals are His children
God laughs when a few are obviously chosen
And receive preferential treatment under the basis
That...

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When silence breaks with a siren's cry,
And ash clouds darken the morning sky,
Two nations rise with wrathful might,
Blind to peace, prepared to fight.

Where rivers flowed...

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Never spoke
About the things
I can do or would do 
Always told you
About what I've done
Some right and some wrong.

I never let my flaws 
Weigh me...

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In the cup
Of my hands,
I caught
Cool raindrops;
Blowing breath
Into warm palms,
I watered fields of lilies
And quenched thirsting doves:-

An awakening smile
Quickly frowned
At the sound
Of loud, bursting bombs
And...

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In the summer heat of '47's cry,
A line was drawn beneath the sky.
Not ink, but blood, not words, but flame—
Two nations born, but none the...

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(The Hollow City Cycle include:
The Hollow City
I Remember You -- the city speaks
Last One Left)

You left me when the lights flickered
and the water turned bitter.
When...

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“When the Screens Went Dark”

They said the clocks had stopped at thirteen,
but we remembered twelve.
Somewhere in the cracks between slogans,
truth lingered like a forbidden song.

The...

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children in backyard
play cowboys and indians
learning rules of war



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 7, 2025...

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Have you seen, with no word,
The immense, cold voids
,among the slender, patient buds,
Received hollow seeds?

Have you beheld the earth
Lay the masks of dreams upon itself,
And...

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A Soldiers Dream 
I bow my head down in shame as my tears fall down like drops of rain . 
I couldn't save my fellow...

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In battle little boys frantic
Shared their quotes with the Atlantic
So we can all note
About death they’d gloat
And Signal decay gigantic...

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today, 
thinking time
   flowing…
  no peace,
children dying
    in war…
    victims,
all those dying
    in...

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Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future

You have paid the ultimate price,
And I, made the greatest sacrifice.
When the time came
You answered the call
And gave...

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