World War Poems
These World War poems are examples of War poems about World. These are the best examples of War World poems written by international poets.
He Gave Her A Book
As a child I had a big old red trunk, ...
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Categories:
war, books, dad, love, red,
Never Ever
Was ever this grim world peaceful and calm,
Could it ever be said to be tranquil?
Have people always wished each other harm,
Has warfare always been the...
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Categories:
dream, heaven, hope, war,
The Worst Go LastA life short-lived, but a life lived regardless
A cavalcade of those once loved marching backwards
Black light glinting through the eyes of the ephemeral
A shining, black...
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Categories:
war, africa, baptism, black african
Virus
Very few could predict
virus would spread so fast,
verily cast on world
vicious shadow of death.
Virtual war is fought,
victory will come with
viable new normal.
May 5, 2021
Syllable...
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Categories:
death, fear, war,
ValorValor
Valiant Danish women –
Village of Helsingor –
Virtue's vital vanguard
Veiled in the Sewing Club
Violence victims freed
Via Oresund’s strait -
Victory of valor
In 1943 after the Nazi...
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Categories:
courage, women, world war
A World Meant to Grow
My great-grandfather was a farmer,
He yielded crops by the harvest moon
When spring came to bloom
He had a son,
My grandfather was a military-man
He disappeared...
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Categories:
war, change, culture, environment, family,
Avoid The Pain, Dare To Change
Oh how troubling to hear the scary sounds of hopelessness!
Even more so from aged ones leaving many questions; no answers.
A 97 year old man speaks...
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Categories:
peace, war,
Categories:
war, conflict, courage, emotions, england,
Loos, France, Fall 1915Slaughter amongst the slag heaps
Bodies bowed over barb wire
Screeching, screaming
artillery arching above
soon to descend
amputating limbs
shattering skulls
blood and brains
splattering stains on
comrades too close
mixing with the mud
Grappling...
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Categories:
death, history, war, world
Categories:
conflict, death, war, youth,
When A Man Dies For FreedomWhen a man dies for freedom,
we don’t know what we’ve lost,
since most of us can’t tell
the shining from the dross.
We live in the safety
these braver...
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Categories:
war, america, courage, death, freedom,
TYNEWALDTYNEWALD
This IS the darkest time,
This IS the darkest day,
When men fell,
When women pray;
THIS is the darkest time,
THIS is the darkest day,
When unlived eyes close,
When ...
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Categories:
hero, history, world war
Illusion that War Could Not Touch Us
Spring of 1971, happy laughter
Multi-colored flowers and happy faces
we drive painted vans our parents can afford
We pile in, meeting new friends, some potential lovers
Peppermint breath...
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Categories:
war, nostalgia,
The Last Train to AuschwitzAuschwitz
1.3 million people sent there
1.1 million...
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Categories:
war, death, holocaust, jewish, world
The Bullecourt DiggerI stopped looking up at him standing so tall
And I wondered how they stood to the end of it all
When it was mud and blood...
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Categories:
remembrance day, world war