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Thanksgiving War Poems

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

Cenotaph Memories

Cenotaph Memories

And silence fell around the stone buildings,
As thousands gathered to remember
And some to forget, friends and family lost,
No longer there to support,
Every heartbeat, a

Categories: war, anniversary, christian, death, emotions,

Alice

Alice

I got my draft notice in 1971
Nam was winding down 
I didn’t wanna go.
So, I started hummin a song,
just a few bars mind you
about Alice,

Categories: war, humor,

Is This A Way To Live

“ 
Is This a Way to Live”

“The Innocent” 
As warplanes thunder overhead
We rise from our beds
And wonder, 
Is this a way to live?

“The Soldier”
As he

Categories: war, emotions, sad, thanksgiving day,

Awaits What

Darkness we had
Light awaits
Life we celebrate
Death awaits
Manhood we had
Oldage awaits
Strength we had
Weakness awaits
Crowds we had 
Lonliness awaits
Friendships we celebrate 
Envy awaits
Love we had
Hatred awaits
Downfalls we

Categories: war, emotions, sweet love, thanksgiving,

Chuck Jennings


The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure

Categories: war, america, death, soldier, world

The Need of Closing Ranks

you ask me
what was this year
i say i'm thankful
blessed
grateful to be happy and alive

while others are dying
diseases
hunger
war
pandemics

is this just the start 
does our world fall

Categories: family, hope, thanksgiving, war,

Pondering the Power of God

Pondering God’s Power

Here on this much  less 
than a millimeter speck of space, 
I imagine 
the shape and size
of my soul, the depth
of my

Categories: war, 8th grade, christian, devotion,

D Day Freedom Recovered

D DAY June 6 a repost remembered

 Lost in France,
Resting 'neath a simple cross,
Just name,nationality and rank;
Giving of life,was his loss.

At home,
A breaking,aching heart;
A sweetheart's

Categories: war, america, anniversary, freedom, thanksgiving,

List of Tributes To Veterans

TO:  My fellow Veterans and all my fellow Soupers 

Listed below are the titles to poems I have written over the years that pay

Categories: war, death, death of a

Epilog To Reconnaissance

EPILOG TO
RECONNAISSANCE PATROL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Survived again, back to CP, a successful patrol
Brought back some intel, lost nary a soul
Exhausted, safe, suddenly my hands are shaking
Continued

Categories: war, angst, courage, emotions, fear,

Reconnaissance Patrol

RECONNAISSANCE PATROL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Scheduled for patrol tonight, damn I got the point
We must secure at least one exiting point
I hate night patrols, transiting from cover

Categories: angst, anxiety, military, war,

Fifa V the Poppy

FIFA V The Poppy
by Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& a poetry soup honourably mentioned poet

I wrote the following poem, when I heard FIFA were

Categories: war, bereavement, remembrance day, thanksgiving,

Handle It

Handle It!


and thus the dirty hands crept ever close
searching for neither penny nor for pound
kept down by those of class who never rose
above the station

Categories: peace, power, thanksgiving, war,

Rat-A-Tat-Tat

The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless

Categories: society, violence, war,

The Spitfire

>I must be honest, being new to this poetry, I do not understand half the terms describing types of poems, hence you will see a

Categories: war, appreciation, beach, cool, courage,