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Warsaw Poems - Poems about Warsaw


Back To Belfast
Back to Belfast I have been to the Ghetto thrice To Auschwitz twice And to Belfast once And to tell the truth Belfast is the winner of the weirdest places Where I’ve ever been But to be fair That was just before Good Friday- The peak of the peace process Deserted streets Walls dividing roads Flags aggressively hanging from windows Emblems that define their owners’ sympathy Plain buildings...

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Categories: warsaw, christian, city, death, good
Form: Elegy
The Warsaw Uprising
What is freedom? The brief period of anarchy between the last tyranny and the next? Are we free if we cannot see the cage? Or feel the chains? What if our masters lengthen our leashes? Only to tighten their hold at a whim? How can we be free without rule of law? And who can we trust to enforce this law? How long...

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Categories: warsaw, anger, betrayal, death, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Warsaw Pact
Although East Germany is no longer around, there are several other Eastern European countries to be found. Some in the West consider us a competitor to NATO. Only about our daily business we will go. There is Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. We have Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria. These are the members that exist at our core. We have been together...

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Categories: warsaw, history, political, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Warsaw Poland
camped out behind the baltic sea the making of me washes up apon blood soaked stones of cunning tides behind the vacant graves apon our burial ground silence abode all movement abroad...

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Categories: warsaw, sea,
Form: Prose Poetry
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Der Warschauer Ghettoaufstand
Innocent people forced Into an inhumane Ghetto While being Jewish Admiration for the fighters In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ------------------------------------------------- Unschuldige Menschen Gezwungen in ein unmenschliches Ghetto Nur weil sie Juden waren Hochachtung für die Kämpfer Im Warschauer Ghettoaufstand...

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Categories: warsaw, history
Form: Tanka



The Dogs of Warsaw
They slipped their chains and spread their brains On walls of bricks and mortar, Bared their teeth in their belief, Prepared themselves for slaughter. Howled aloud in the smoke and cloud That prowled the streets and alleys, The sounds they made in their parade Echoed down the valleys. They shed their blood in crimson flood, It stained the roads and gutters, And people hid and...

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Categories: warsaw, death, history, loss, people,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things