Children War Poems

Wounded

Broken and wounded, he lay on the bed.
His children watch silently.
The mortar round had worked.
...

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It caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s...

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No War No Protest!

Colors of red, green, black, and white 
spread on the east side of one campus
On the other a wave of white, and...

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During the Civil War, money came late,
Indians starved, left to their fate.
Two braves came across a white farmer's food.
They were hungry and stressed and in...

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  Night after night, images flicker on the tube
    Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying
      Dying...

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It's hard to fathom that in 2024,
the ugliness of antisemitism has
reared it's head once more..
Campus students  need to
 change their perspective.
It's not the Jewish...

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One day after Earth Day…thinking about what Earth Day is celebrated for…
I’m also thinking about all the children on opposite sides of a war

Thinking of...

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A border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away...

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two children chest-tight
these ties to her life severed
in no man’s land
fruit plucked from family tree
overdose of suffering
...

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It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled.
History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three
When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled.

The seventeen...

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Lethal Thermobaric Bombs
Also known as vacuum bombs
Sucking the oxygen out of the air
For many miles. Nuclear and cluster bombs
And the worst of the sickest bombs
Of...

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The slaughterer came to the market

Dancing and wielding a matchet

He sang songs of sorrow;

And wrote rhymes for his victims of tomorrow.

    ...

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In the land where skies once wept with grace,
Now echoes of war, tears stream down the face.
A family torn in the midst of strife,
Caught in...

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Beasts! Killers!
Soulless beings, devoid of empathy,
Ruthless in your actions,
Inflicting pain without remorse.

What sins have the innocent committed?
Caught in the crossfire of your wars,
Agents of destruction,
Where...

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We are going to dig to bury our dead:
Mother, father, sisters and brothers,
Uncles, aunts, friends and strangers.
We are going to inter our dead:
Archbishop, pastors, Houngans...

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