Father World War Ii Poems
These Father World War Ii poems are examples of World War Ii poems about Father. These are the best examples of World War Ii Father poems written by international poets.
Two Veterans
My father, a WW2 vet
My mother too
On Veterans Day they first met
...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, courage, dad, hope, mom,
All This TimeFists so clenched
Face so red
Spit hitting my face
Was it something I said
I shouldn’t have touched your books
You’re worthless
You’re nothing
But I just wanted to look
You’ll never...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, abuse, boy, child abuse,
Fearing FatherThere 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...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
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 ii, emotions, family, father son,
After Their WarAfter Their War
David J Walker
There was only desire and comfort/convenience
Laced with certain frames of entertainment
in between the crap games played with life
Everything OD...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, allegory, world war i,
Chuck JenningsThe bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, america, death, soldier, world
The Last TokenI was five years old when the war was over
August, 1945, and my daddy sent word
He was on his way home from Guadalcanal....
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, father son, memory, remember,
Mein VaterI 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...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, angst, dad, father son,
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
World War 11 Through the Eyes of My Dad Poem No 2 of TrilogyWORLD WAR 11 THROUGH THE EYES OF MY DAD
POEM NO 2 OF TRILOGY
My father was one of six children, whose family
Had no financial reserves, so...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, dad, soldier, world war
Remembrance Forgottenashes to ground ashes
dust to biting dust
birth to surrender
no phoenix
just crumbled trenches
no cross on the grave
blink of...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii,
ParenthesisDresden, it is said, was bombed to an ashen landscape,
A giant burned out match head. Explodable no more.
Small Dresdens found along our driveway no...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, dark, father, image, memory,
Hiroshima Poems IHiroshima Poems I
Let Us Be Midwives!
by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Midnight...
the basement of a shattered building...
atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, child, children, eulogy, father,
Paul Celan Holocaust Poem: O, Little Root of a DreamO, Little Root of a Dream
by Paul Celan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
O, little root of a dream
you enmire me here;
I’m undermined by blood?
made invisible,
death's...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, dream, holocaust, race, racism,
Paul Celan Holocaust Poem: You Were My DeathYou Were My Death
by Paul Celan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You were my death;
I could hold you
when everything abandoned me—
even breath.
Paul Celan (1920-1970) was...
Read More
Categories:
world war ii, absence, abuse, death, holocaust,