Ypres Poems - Poems about Ypres

...The Cloud of Abyss It was a perfect day, cobalt sky and azure, glittering sea when the stygian clouds from the east came the lord of war had spat phlegm, spraying us with horror Inside this mon......Read the rest...

...They visit now, where once men fought, heads bowed in silence, and yet still, no lesson learned from what was taught. The trenches, ground, where carnage wrought; fields in Ypres to Bunker Hill......Read the rest...

...We are the soldiers who have no voice In war or peace, we have no choice Yet we toil and fight alongside men We do all we do, the best way we can We bleed and we die, we bark neigh and cry Our......Read the rest...

...The Unknown Warrior Comes Home by Robert J (Bob) Moore © Nov.2018 From the battlefields on the Western front four warriors, are going home plain coffins covered by the flag these warriors were......Read the rest...

...A DETOUR TO YPRES, (on returning from a holiday in France 2013) WHAT A WASTE A DIM TARRY SUN CLOSES, THE ERRODED SCRAGGY DAY, IN HIDDEN CORNERS OF SOURED BOGS BROKEN MEN, AND MEMORIES SIT MY DR......Read the rest...

...October 25th, 2020 Belgium All Star Festival Variety of languages are being spoken Church of Our Lady of Laeken smiles as she sees them gather Across from her boats are being decorated for the fe......Read the rest...

...Lay me to rest in marbled halls with angels at my head, not lying here in the mud of Ypres with khaki turning red. Let me die a noble death, one that's worth fighting for, not to avenge a nobleman......Read the rest...

...House for house wall for wall and crumb for broken crumb We fight like Stalingrad with nothing left to salvage For honour glory power and some ‘god’ or other Ypres Gallipoli Aleppo Damascu......Read the rest...

...AND THE MOTHERS WEEP by JOHN M. ARRIBAS A young lanky sod buster with no place to go Thought things would be better in San Antonio Jo......Read the rest...

...A generation gone too soon, each tank, batallion or platoon; They went with glory on their mind, and left the ones they loved behind; A slaughter on a massive scale, at Flanders, Ypres and Passchen......Read the rest...

...Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field (A Tribute) Tough as nails young man with a red right hand red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood. Courageous seed of vast and cold hard land q......Read the rest...

...The 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 fayre was so cold in the trenches enemy not so ......Read the rest...

...In 1917 the British and Commonwealth forces attacked In the Ypres Salient in the corner of Belgium they hacked Through the Third Battle of Ypres that had been raging away With the battlefield turn......Read the rest...

...He spoke to his major sitting in judgement His crime was absence and to jail he'd be sent Across the battalion colour patch on his shoulder Was a brass metal A which showed him as bolder He ha......Read the rest...

...100 years ago at Passchendaele this day, Young men prayed their fear would go away. They waited, knee deep in mud, in trenches, For the whistle to sound amid their defences. They prayed for coura......Read the rest...