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World War I Poems | Examples of World War I Poetry

Dragon Tongue
Dragon tongue Ill be your dragon I see your smile Through your alien face I didn't mean to abandon you In time when the army needs us most Without the mass graves How can we take this land Just leave em for dead But don't kill them That beautiful spot On the hill with the flowers in bloom Now could be someone's tomb Forfeit the blue...

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Categories: world war i, abuse, chocolate, sky, words,
Form: Free verse
Anne Frank : verse
Anne Frank sweet s ...

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Categories: world war i, allusion, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Verse



The Lord’s Cry to His People
Behold the time is no longer near; It is now. I have shouted, I have whispered, And still, you do not hear. Let the one with ears listen For when I and My grace depart, There will be no more delay, And salvation shall be bought with blood. Return to Me, O Israel My chosen, My delight. Who is Israel? Not those born of...

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Categories: world war i, 12th grade, fate, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Oh Liza, dear Liza
Oh Liza, dear Liza. My plane’s going down. I’m somewhere over the Pacific, but there's nobody around. Nobody to watch as this hunk of metal falls No one to weep as these blaring alarms stall. Dear Liza, my Liza. Now I’m going down. It’s not valiant or brave like you hear of in town. There was no gunfire, I’m just...

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Categories: world war i, flying, freedom, independence day,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member ceasefire
lay aside their arms .. for ~ just one silent night ----- Light up the Lanterne Sponsor: Nette Onclaud 19/05/25 ----- The Christmas Armistice of 1914: World War I on the Western Front had settled into stalemate. On Christmas Eve, soldiers from both sides spontaneously began singing carols - mainly...

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Categories: world war i, blessing, music, war, world
Form: Lanterne



Premium Member ceasefire
why fight when we can say no more fighting Now written by dad...

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Categories: world war i, dad, violence, war, world
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member Cloud Watching
When I was younger, I thought that in retirement I would take pictures of or paint beautiful clouds situated so vividly above us. Clouds more often appear as wonderous displays in the canopy. Clouds sometime seems so ominous and threatening. Clouds often hover above us like a band of darkness and at other times, they are white and crystal...

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Categories: world war i, poetess, weather, world war
Form: Free verse
Underneath that Grand old Flag
Natives interrupted Guns pointed to their chests Blown away like beautiful dandelions Into that sweltering sun Americans lollygag In their newly claimed land Under that grand old flag Slaving away, picking cotton Under the South’s heat of injustice Scarred with inhumane treatment Sweating tears and pain Burdens heavier than sandbags Yes, they’re slaving away Under that southern flag Stripped away from homes and work And terrorized prior still No voice spoke...

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Categories: world war i, america, discrimination, prejudice, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Poppy Fields
Flying over the front lines with the French Escadrille Lafayette a brown and barren belt below a strip of murdered nature and yet during the warm months of spring and summer seeds in the shattered ground would grow delicate vibrant crimson flowers in row after row after row and in those poppy fields that's how we remember them all the fallen soldiers those unforgotten gallant men tho'...

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Categories: world war i, death, flower, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature's Art
"The clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire," opening to a dazzling glow of molten fire, as rays reflect to cover rippling waves below, and like a fairyland, the colors blend their flow. Dear Nature is the painter of the finest art that marks its motion as it spreads and morphs apart just like a lovely watercolor's subtle smear captures a...

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Categories: world war i, art, sunset, tribute, world
Form: Couplet
The Greatest American Generation
They came with dust on their boots and a morning star, Shadows of boyhood still clinging to their shoulders— They were sons of the land, faces bright with the dew, Carrying small, cherished photographs in their breast pockets. They rose with the sun’s trumpet call at dawn, A summons to arms, to fear, to death— Yet they did not tremble, They carried...

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Categories: world war i, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
our heros went to war
our heroes went to war also know what there fighting for, to give there life's to keep us safe to fight along to save human race. in our hearts we remember you know one knows what they really went through, to stand and fight and brother in arms, to pray to god as know its bad, remember the day...

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Categories: world war i, brother, death, sad, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May 8, 1945
Monuments went up commemorating the end of World War II It wasn't so long ago in Europe, their scars still show ~ A long and vicious war with horrific consequences So much to rebuild but it was the dawn of a new day Surely mankind had learned its lessons...

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Categories: world war i, men, war, wisdom, world
Form: Free verse
For the love of a lieutenant
Tell me that story again, The tale of love and self-sabotage, Of doubt and valour, Of hearts and corruption, Where the days are adventure and the nights are a dream, The danger is adrenaline and the work is never done, We stand together on the brightest days, On the coldest nights, On your side I stood, though times changed Tell me those...

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Categories: world war i, for him, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Armageddon, Lyrics
Broken souls and disillusioned dreams. (Drowning in a sea of dread…) Broken toys and angels without wings. (Fragile things…) Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers. (No light, hopes where broken…) Pained tears encompass the empyreal rays. (No more days…) Pompous worlds painted in a destitute haze. (Where are we now?) Transmogrified in the iron flood. (Wash me clean…) Transmogrified in the spilled blood. (Still we...

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Categories: world war i, death, war, world war
Form: Lyric

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