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Depression World War I Poems

These Depression World War I poems are examples of World War I poems about Depression. These are the best examples of World War I Depression poems written by international poets.


Leningrad
Meandering through
the cracks of a
Baltic horizon
stripped of
its lunary luminance,
streams of darkness slither
their way through
the calloused sieve of a
monochromatic
midnight sunrise
that unfurls its
featherless wings
over Leningrad





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Categories: world war i, depression, sad, war, world



Premium Member FBI FRAUD
As i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11...

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Categories: world war i, anxiety, family, hurt, military,

Fearing Father
There in the corner of the living room 
on a loveseat meant for two 
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant...

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Categories: world war i, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,

Broken Paradise
The world is broken,
So Am I,
Bleeding grief ,
Through cracks of Mosaic.
It wasn't aliens,
Who plunged the sword,
Scouring the substrates,
To excavate their rewards ,
The were my own,
Love...

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Categories: world war i, anxiety, break up, depression,

Beautiful Lies
Lies tempt souls to hate and fight peace
Lies corrupt and tensions increase
Lies strike at the heart
To rip lives apart
Tearing at sane minds, piece by piece...

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Categories: world war i, absence, abuse, addiction, boyfriend,



Woman of the Wasteland III of III
From ruined halls of a corrupt little apartment 
I flee with my children, trailing after me 
No more the hard hand of hate 
On my...

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Categories: world war i, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,

Catatonia, Collapse, Abiding Love
I kneel, bow, and make myself into 
A rock to ask God, 
King of the Universe, 
Give me the amateur. 
Hear my cries, Lord our...

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Categories: world war i, abortion, abuse, addiction, angel,

The Empress of Nothing
All there is
Is the empress of nothing
she is all there is 
Her throne of smoke
Brittle bone
a crown of night 
eyes see nothing in sight
all for...

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Categories: world war i, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel,

Tears On the Iron Rail
Bodies crammed shoulder to shoulder
Packed in wooden cattle cars
Their destination to them unknown;
Men, women, and children,
Old, young, and grown.

Bodies standing crowded and pressed against each...

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Categories: world war i, depression, fear, heartbreak, holocaust,

Premium Member Blue Smoke Dreams
[More paraphrase than translation of a Post WWII Korean jazz ballad by the Kim Sisters, sung mournfully as if for an Asian gangster film noir.]

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Exhaling...

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Categories: world war i, depression, desire, introspection, memory,

Premium Member The Back Door
In our neighborhood during the second world war
At the side of each house were a porch and a door.
And, believe it or not, it was...

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Categories: world war i, childhood, history, house, mother,

Remember Us This Way
REMEMBER US THIS WAY

I look back on the memories we’ve had sometimes ago
When life was free for every one of us, both young and old
When...

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Categories: world war i, child, death, dedication, depression,

Premium Member Oscar-Ku 19 -The Best Years of Our Lives
soldiers return home
youthful innocence and health-
sacrificed to war






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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Categories: world war i, conflict, depression, film, home,

Premium Member A Wartime Childhood
I was seven years old when began World War Two
And eleven became by the time it was through.
I have vague recollections of things when that...

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Categories: world war i, america, history, patriotic, soldier,

Sarah's Key
She was a girl, a Jewish girl, say society
A girl, a girl, who was anything but lonely
Living alongside her family
All sweet and happily
Hardworking father, bold...

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Categories: world war i, angst, depression, family, holocaust,


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