Christmas World War I Poems
These Christmas World War I poems are examples of World War I poems about Christmas. These are the best examples of World War I Christmas poems written by international poets.
Border-lieA border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, extended metaphor, planet, space,
Rural Pastrual Idle Feild And Meadow Warning!In a foreign lush green sprawling land
A patchwork carpet stitched together
In shades of tawny browns yellows and green
Rugged rock forest and wind-swept moor
Is a awe-inspiring...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, conflict, creation, environment, mother,
Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, christmas, friendship, hope, love,
The Seeds of YearningWith World War II finally over, the soldier returned home to Tennessee.
To his previous life and his young, loving wife
But what once was two now...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, emotions, family, father son,
1915 Hardtack MessageOne of the scarce things on Gallipoli
Was writing paper for letters you see
And so the AIF was obliged to send home
Letters written on anything...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, christmas, war, world war
Meghan Was the Bold NurseThe ill woman lying silent in the steel wheelchair
was a lady if elegance living in exuberant riches,
who vividly remembers her as happy, generous, and fair?
Somebody...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, celebration, character, courage, emotions,
War - Ww2 - Kokoda ChristmasIt was 1942 on the Kokoda Track
And the Diggers were holding the Japanese back
Keith Irwin of the 2/2 nd battalion was in a slit trench
With...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii,
Lest We ForgetWars has been declared fighting in foreign lands,
1914 men and boys join the fight for king and country,
"Over by christmas" it was said,
Off they went...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, christmas, conflict, courage, freedom,
Operation BarbarossaOperation Barbarossa
the panzers start to roll,
Breaking out from Poland’s Baltic,
towards Sevastopol,
Ten million soldiers strong,
go goose-stepping east,
The Fuhrer’s Wehrmacht,
alongside his waffen SS elite.
No...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, allegory, allusion, america, world
no heroes - WWI -
heroes?
there are none here, now ... ever ...
don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier,
Christmas Spent In Warsnow
stained red
frightened eyes
tears scorch and burn
gas-filled bombs on Christmas in our trenches
Far from home dying and dead lay scattered
where bombs explode
on Christmas
with gifts
death
screams
anguished
silent graves
frozen in...
Read More
Categories:
christmas, world war i,
ArizonaJapanese??
Here ... in Pearl Harbor?!? This must be a nightmare ...
It can't be real - I can't have seen that, yet here I am,
In my...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, adventure, remembrance day, violence,
Silent NightThe air was brittle with the cold
mud made life so very hard to bare.
Came to mind that maybe xmas is soon
Remembers roaring fires and christmas...
Read More
Categories:
world war i,
World War Iii On Christmas DayChristmas is supposed to be a day of great joy.
But in less than one hour we'll all be destroyed.
Nuclear missiles are being launched and all...
Read More
Categories:
world war i, deathday, world, family, day,