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Sad World War I Poems

These Sad World War I poems are examples of World War I poems about Sad. These are the best examples of World War I Sad 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

Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914

In 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...

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Categories: world war i, christmas, friendship, hope, love,

A World of Liars and Cowards

Fancy jets and drones are flying
Bombs are falling and raining
Killing innocent civilians
Burning and destroying homes
Hotels, churches and tombs
People are starving and suffering
While dictators and cheaters...

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Categories: world war i, child abuse, dark, death,

World War Iii

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

It’s a darkness so sad and grim,
Dreams destroyed by the bleakest...

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Categories: world war i, war,

World War Some More

Hate watching the news ,
Gives me the blues
Every channel says the same
Each one passing the blame
What I see
In all that be
Dark days ahead
All the hate...

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Categories: world war i, allusion, anger, history, symbolism,

The Nuke

The wandering clouds, over the Japanese sky
With mirth and joy passing by
Unknown of the upcoming crisis
laugh of folks in merry bliss
The birds chirping, blessing good
never...

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Categories: world war i, anger, death, recovery from,

World War

Sat around watch as time passed me on by.
The days were long, my eyes never dry 
As I watched people went about doing their own...

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Categories: world war i, april,

Soldier of Fortune 1919

I’m a soldier of fortune 
Just home from the War
Begging for food from
The woman at this door.
She took me to her kitchen 
Fed me cold...

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Categories: world war i, sad love, soldier, world

A Glorious General

"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honour of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and...

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Categories: world war i, fate, hero, history, leadership,

Gasps of Witnessed Horrors

I'm shivering, naked, I'm amidst bodies on a cart
All I remember is looking up awaiting the water
Entangled I am seeing grimaced pinked faces
And a solumn...

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Categories: world war i, cry, death, family, hero,

Mein Vater

I heard them come long before they came,
Repetitious stomps heard from far away.
Their steady beat mimicked my heart,
As dread conceived to pull me apart.
This wasn't...

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Categories: world war i, angst, dad, father son,

World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi

World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi

Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable houses, 
who...

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Categories: world war i, evil, holocaust, race, racism,

World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos Radnoti

World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti

Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died...

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Categories: world war i, holocaust, murder, race, racism,

Tynecot : Gods Acre

Tynecot. God's acre.

   Here..
   A quiet churchyard on the Kentish Weald
   Finches flit from holly to yew
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Categories: world war i, remembrance day, sad, world

Pulling Out

The train left the platform amid trails of smoke
That blew across faces
Waving away worn smiles.
The grey sky leaned into the horizon
Forming a broken arc,
Rain moved...

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Categories: world war ii,