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Farewell World War Ii Poems

These Farewell World War Ii poems are examples of World War Ii poems about Farewell. These are the best examples of World War Ii Farewell poems written by international poets.

Requiem

Standing on this hillside
looking down below
I can see the fields
where all the poppies grow

each flower, a reminder
of where some brave once fell
so that we could...

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Categories: world war ii,

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 ii, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,

For Whom the Bell Tolls

I stumbled across
A stumbling block
Five Stolpersteine
Where a family used to live
Surname Jaffe
Made me think about
Think about those
Those the bells didn’t toll for
Made me think
Think about...

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Categories: world war ii, abuse, death, farewell, funeral,

Summer Haze

Summer Haze
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells...

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Categories: world war ii, farewell, first love, goodbye,

Meeting and Greeting In Airports, Coach and Railway Stations

On arrival we kiss.
On departure we weep.
Lives so different merge.
Lives so similar diverge....

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Categories: world war ii, farewell, kiss, romantic love,

Their Splendor Gone

Their years have slowly slipped away,
Our nation’s heroes with heads of grey
Once strong bodies, now weathered and weak,
‘tis’ the solitude of grave’s-rest, they seek.

Willingly went...

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Categories: world war ii, america, death, dedication, devotion,

Loves Dying Cry - the Winds of War

You stole my heart and lit a fire
You drown my soul with some ease of power

Though fighting them now night and day
The thought of you...

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Categories: world war ii, cry, dark, farewell, for

War

Whence diplomacy fails mankind.
Soldiers amassed with patriotic duties to fulfill.
Some willing, some underaged, some desperate.
Weaponry and vehicular production overdriven.
Military strategies drafted that await execution.
Prayers flood...

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Categories: world war ii, conflict, dark, death, god,

Nineteen Fortytwo

NINETEEN FORTY TWO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


As a young man in Jersey I wanted to be a cop
One sunday morning that dream came to a stop
Our nation...

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Categories: world war ii, america, december, military, patriotic,