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Dad War Poems

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


Premium Member MOM DAD WAR AND GRACE

Just the very thought of him, like an artist’s stroke of his
Paintbrush, sealed a promise of a lifetime of tomorrows.
I finally had found myself and,...

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Categories: animal, world war ii,



The Aviators' Alphabet
A is for Airspeed who graduated from Oxford
   B is for Bristol with their whispering giants
C is for Convair and Canadair also
 ...

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Categories: war, conflict, flying, history, howl,

Boy Soldiers
On the day that my family died,
They didn't give me a chance to dry.
I WAS 12

They told me that I was now on their side,
That...

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© Mark West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war, africa, age, child abuse,

Premium Member BEFORE THE WAR
There are countless reasons to end a war…before that war’s begun…
If you’ll permit me this moment…I’d like to add another one:

Everyone has a story we...

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

Premium Member WHAT MY DAD WOULD HAVE WANTED
The teacher, long retired, ran across a copy of the only poem she ever saved
which immediately caused her to reminisce….
For in all her years of...

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



Premium Member Day After 'Infamy': The 8th
So this be the day after
  nineteen forty-one
    Be December the eighth, the
      nightmare has begun.
...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war, allusion, analogy, dark, death,

Premium Member Two Veterans
   My father, a WW2 vet
   My mother too
     On Veterans Day they first met

  ...

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Categories: war, courage, dad, hope, mom,

Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder -
Mine dad in the 1940’s was an organ grinder huh!,  in the high seas in the Navy. In the 1940’s
 Lo, the clanging, bopping,...

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Categories: war, analogy, appreciation, engagement, food,

Premium Member Forever War
He took me to the altar
His metals all alight
We made ourselves a home
Our future looked so bright

There was that time
Brass bugles they did roar
The music...

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© Bean Pole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war, dad, devotion, in memoriam,

Premium Member Chapter 95 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Just Summertime Birthday Celebrations
The kid who often was lost in 
The sauce Joshua! His 
 birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with 
The youngest kids....

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Categories: war, birth, black love, children,

Surprise Attack
I’m sure no army prays for it:
It’s a soldier’s safe throat slit!
From behind a troop Rat-Tat-Tat,
A soldier would slump plus his hat…

Popularly, a batch’s ambush
Against...

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Categories: war, cry, death, fear, violence,

Supporters of Hate Slogans
Please, stop describing as classic
What is in reality slick,
Something I’d go for as “the sick,”
At home Dad to beat me with stick…

Indeed, an idea men...

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Categories: analogy, death, violence, war,

Premium Member Norwich
Back during World War 11 -
written on the backs of envelopes
NORWICH
reveals our parent’s were quite, naughty too.
In a roundabout way, saying,“Get ready to screw”-
I never...

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Categories: war, funny, husband, word play,

Premium Member Strike Back At Terror
His grandfather attacked mine
    to remove him from land that grandpa had bought
  Oozing hatred from deep in his gut
 ...

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Categories: international, myth, political, war,

Purple Heart: In Honor of My Father
I was a young man at the age of nineteen
When I was sent to a country on the other side of the world that I...

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Categories: war, courage, dad, dedication, father,


Book: Shattered Sighs