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History War Poems

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

India and Pakistan: Divided by History, Bound by Blood

Brothers once, beneath the same monsoon sky,
Before foreign flags touched your soil,
You drank from the same rivers,
Laughed beneath the same banyan trees,
Shared gods, grain, and...

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Categories: war, allusion, conflict, discrimination, family,

Anne Frank : verse

   Anne Frank
sweet
                    ...

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Categories: war, allusion, character, courage, emotions,

Blood Stained and Bleeding World

What's happened to world serenity?
It been trampled on and has run amuck,
burned and wounded, ravaged by hate 
while people look on as though they're dumbstruck.
The...

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Categories: conflict, death, war, world,

Warriors

Mothers don't let your children
grow up to be soldiers
and march off to battle
without remorse or of course
a thought of regret
to get in the way
boys playing...

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Categories: war, how i feel, mother,

The Grave Silence Over Gaza

I write not with anger, but with the burden of sorrow
that cannot be cleansed by diplomacy nor buried beneath the noise of geopolitics.
For in Gaza,...

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Categories: war, america, conflict, cry, death

A Nuclear Future

  
   The specter of nuclear war haunts the world again
      not long after we all thought...

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Categories: fear, history, war,

PEEK INTO NEW YEAR’S EVE 2199


For dinner we are going to the popular ‘Stars’
Restaurant, we have booked some years ago,
We also booked to see the famous show,
We don’t know if...

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Categories: war, grandmother,

Pause And Remember

For Jason and his Argonauts, golden wool was theirs to fleece
For the British, Iran's oil was theirs to drill and steal
In '53 the West led...

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Categories: war, history,

A Crossroads for Iran

When missiles fly
The Mullahs lie
They bide their time
To turn the tide

Their constant bluster
Now short of luster
For why we ask
No God sent task

To build a bomb
With...

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Categories: war, america, arabic, bullying, conflict,

Back in the USSR

June 21, 2025

For the Beatles 'Lay it to Me' song Contest by Charles Messina


The old iron curtain came down
But soon a clown reclaimed the crown
Ruthless...

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Categories: war, conflict, history, international, pain,

Lord of the Western Sea

Christian daimyo, Yukinaga Konishi
Born a merchant, became Commander of the Sea
Granted favour by God and man
Defended faith throughout the land

The youth once granted his father's...

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Categories: christian, conflict, history, war,

No More War

No More War

Marching boots echo
no birds sing in the  
shattered valleys.

Children’s toys buried
beneath the smoking ruins
where  are they ?

Flags wave in triumph,
but mothers...

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Categories: war, anger, death, fire, soldier,

When Holy Hands Drop Bombs

What makes it okay to bomb a nation?
Kill so many who don’t have a station?
Destroy a country, cities and families?
Women, babies, children and men—all tragedies—
Who...

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Categories: war, allah, angel, bible, conflict,

Nothing Is What It Seems

The world shows us one thing,
but behind it, something darker lives.
We’re told stories shaped by power,
not truth.
They write history to fit their plans.
They call it...

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Categories: war, blessing, change, corruption, perspective,

The Art of War

Hit them where it hurts

President Trump said “Ukraine has no cards to play to end war with Russia”. Yet deep inside Russia, Ukraine masterfully destroys...

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Categories: war,