Best War Poems

shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ****
shot like a flower in the dance
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To you who'd read my songs of War
And only hear of blood and fame,
I'll say (you've heard it said before)
'War's Hell! ' and if you doubt the same,
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Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover's tallness off to war,
Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess
What I can use an empty heart-cup for.
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My mind says - Leave it and proceed!
My heart says - Stay and believe,
Is it a tug of war between mind and heart?
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War is never over
Thought the treaties may be signed
The memories of the battles
Are forever in our minds
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The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes
Till beauty shines in all that we can see.
War is our scourge; yet war has made us wise,
And, fighting for our freedom, we are free.
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Long ago the Gladiators,
When the call to combat came,
Marching past the massed spectators,
Hailed the Emp'ror with acclaim!
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The story's told
Of long ago
About a statue
With a head of gold
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ADIEU, O soldier!
You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)
The rapid march, the life of the camp,
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How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
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The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The stars appeared as broken remnants of lightning, but now silence prevailed over all, as if Nature's war had never been fought.

At that hour a young woman entered her chamber and knelt by her bed sobbing bitterly. Her heart flamed with agony but she could finally open her lips and say, 'Oh Lord, bring him home safely to me. I have exhausted my tears and can offer no more, oh Lord, full of love and mercy. My patience is drained and calamity is seeking possession of my heart. Save him, oh Lord, from the iron paws of War; deliver him from such unmerciful Death, for he is weak, governed by the strong. Oh Lord, save my beloved, who is Thine own son, from the foe, who is Thy foe. Keep him from the forced pathway to Death's door; let him see me, or come and take me to him.'
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Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
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In the war these heroes have died
Though the war was illegal,
They are martyrs
They have shed their blood in the war
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City of ships!
(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!
O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)
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Guns,
Long, steel guns,
Pointed from the war ships
In the name of the war god.
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Last year we fought by the head-stream of the Sang-kan,
This year we are fighting on the Tsung-ho road.
We have washed our armor in the waves of the Chiao-chi lake,
We have pastured our horses on Tien-shan's snowy slopes.
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War. And war some more.
War. And war some more.
No one knows,
What it's for,
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AS I ponder'd in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful aspect,
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Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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First world war
Resulted 40 million causalities
1914 to 1918
Died men women children teen.
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Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines
From his mountains; an odor of war, like a ripe vineyard, rose from his garments,
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The war of words is done;
The red-lipped cannon speak;
The battle has begun.
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Lately world leaders have consented to some session
May be Herculean task but agreed to reduce tension
Hunger, death and starvation looming over horizon
Atmosphere is also not favourable with depletion of ozone’s
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Ramayana the epic poem of India
The story of a noble kingdom
The story of noble couple
The story of truth, sacrifice
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"It was wrong to do this," said the angel.
"You should live like a flower,
Holding malice like a puppy,
Waging war like a lambkin."
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INFANTRY COLUMNS

We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa --
Foot--foot--foot--foot--sloggin' over Africa --
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You praise my strength,
my fun for the war, ...
the huge wound in
my head yet to heal....
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.
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Fighting for freedom,
Fall of a valiant soldier
Resting in the Lord
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Peace without Justice is a low estate,-
A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,-
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(one)
Love brings war
Love breeds hate
Love births peace
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I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising in front of the newspaper office.
Buttons—red and yellow buttons—blue and black buttons—are shoved back and forth across the map.

A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
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O SUN of real peace! O hastening light!
O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!
O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height--
and you too, O my Ideal, will surely ascend!
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I think forsythia is mellow light,
Beyond the confines of all wrong or right.
That warms war weary eyes against the night.
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Under the crescent moon's faint glow
The washerman's bat resounds afar,
And the autumn breeze sighs tenderly.
But my heart has gone to the Tartar war,
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It's time I stood and spoke of war,
A candid speech display.
To tell you things you used to know;
Forgotten, on the way.
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Said General Clay to General Gore,
'Oh must we fight this silly war?
To kill and die is such a bore.'
'I quite agree,' said General Gore.
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Month which the warring ancients strangely styled
The month of war,--as if in their fierce ways
Were any month of peace!--in thy rough days
I find no war in Nature, though the wild
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Clip after clip
life after life,
man has made guns
who needs a knife?
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A TIME

A time of tribulation great,
Is coming to this world;
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In anguish we uplift
A new unhallowed song:
The race is to the swift;
The battle to the strong.
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GO fetch to me a pint o' wine,
   An' fill it in a silver tassie,
That I may drink, before I go,
   A service to my bonnie lassie.
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[A scene from the hindu epic Mahabharatham
where both duryodhan and arjun come to lord
krishna for favors to sopport them in the war
KURUKSHETRA WAR]
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They say that there is good and evil in everyones heart
With me theres more
It feels like inside my mind is a neverending war
Some are good
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So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb,
Seeing visions "over yonder" of the war I know must come.
In the corner - not a vision - but a sign for coming days
Stand a box of ammunition and a rifle in green baize.
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Let's grub up weapon plants
to grow olive grove
as habitat of human doves
in our mine infested mind
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worlds
worlds
worlds
so many worlds
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The boys come home, come home from war,
With quiet eyes for quiet things --
A child, a lamb, a flower, a star,
A bird that softly sings.
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One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease
From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
We who are great in war be great in peace.
No longer let us plead the cause by might."
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Civil Wars, World Wars
Mass Killings, Killing Fields
Genocide, Terrorism
War is inevitable
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Yes. Why do we áll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless
Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the greater part,
But frail clay, nay but foul clay. Here it is: the heart,
Since, proud, it calls the calling manly, gives a guess
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‘FALL in! Now get a move on.’ (Curse the rain.)
We splash away along the straggling village,
Out to the flat rich country, green with June...
And sunset flares across wet crops and tillage,
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EMILY DICKINSON:

You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,
The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks,
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Stock piling of weapons has triggered Arms race!
Arms race is going on since the end of World War II.
In the Cold war period it went on between USA & USSR;
Now the game of balance of power goes between nations!
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The grapes are ready
The wheat stands ripe
Rear end is coming
May be here tonight
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This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak
of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour,
dominion or power,
except War.
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OUT of the noise of tired people working,
Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead,
His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing,
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Patriotism
the biggest mistake ever
divides from within
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Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread
and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches,
repeats old news: arrogance, ignorance, war.
A cinder-block wall shared by two houses
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survival animal at any cost falling from cliff top height
to break broken crushed lost was not humanities destiny
but humanity has applied this hunting technique repeatedly
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'I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe the war is being
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When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War,
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Would that there would be a world
in which our Fathers, Brothers, Sons, and Husbands
would never again have to go to war
against other Fathers, Brothers, Sons, And Husbands.
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Bravest men we hailed them then
England sent her finest men
The war to end all wars to fight
A cause each one believed was right
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Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant,
And leave him stinking in the square.
Torture the chancellor. Leave the ambassador
Strung by his thumbs from the pleasant
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War is fighting brothers,
War is bombs exploding,
War is crying mothers,
War is bodies floating.
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(France, August first, 1914)

Far and near, high and clear,
Hark to the call of War!
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Hello! Say No More To War
July 3, 2023

I told them of war
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We are all cannon fodder
For the beast called 'War'

Wars are constant, on going
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Confessions Of Krishna - 1

Decades back I had to leave you
To pool all my abilities in shrewd responsibilities
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Weißer Tagesanbruch. Stille. Als das Kräuseln begann,
hielt ich es für Seewind, in unser Tal kommend mit Raunen
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Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze and red crag and was amazed;
On the beach where the long push under the endless tide maneuvers, I stood silent;
Under the stars on the prairie watching the Dipper slant over the horizon’s grass, I was full of thoughts.
Great men, pageants of war and labor, soldiers and workers, mothers lifting their children—these all I touched, and felt the solemn thrill of them.
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He's got a Blighty wound. He’s safe; and then
War’s fine and bold and bright.
She can forget the doomed and prisoned men
Who agonize and fight.
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when you look into a soldiers eyes
you see the images locked deep inside
the torture and hate he has seen
the deaths of friends that have been
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I bled for you - would you for me?

I blessed a skin in blazing fuel
Then took a bullet in a duel of
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'It was wrong to do this,' said the angel.
'You should live like a flower,
Holding malice like a puppy,
Waging war like a lambkin.'
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War Means death
War Means destruction
War Means fire
War Means bombing
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.....Let them live....

............SEXUALLY MOLEST
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PUT IN all hate
In the mind
To the waste bin
And end the war
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There is no place like home
that's what people always say
well, what if you don't have a home?
only a house
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(Inspired by "If There Is A Right War" Poem by Yonah Jeong)
It is wrongly said
and wrongly quoted,
repeatedly
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No more war, please
Please no more war
No more bloodthirsty leader, please
Please no more bloodthirsty leader
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O Lord, our refuge and strength
When it's 'in God we trust'
The foe has struck your firstborn
With a great infamous thrust
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For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead,
Who rarely bothered coming home to die
But simply stayed away out there
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Fairfax, whose Name in Arms through Europe rings,
And fills all Mouths with Envy or with Praise,
And all her Jealous Monarchs with Amaze.
And Rumours loud which daunt remotest Kings,
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war memorial
reccuring, late dad's words
that war is a shame
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Said General Clay to General Gore really must we fight this silly war
To kill and die in such a bore I quite agree said General Gore
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Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse,
More ponderous than nimble;
For since grimed War here laid aside
His painted pomp, 'twould ill befit
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To the Lord General Cromwell

On the Proposals of Certain Ministers of the Committee
for the Propagation of the Gospel
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The Civil War
September 28, 2023

Among nation and community war goes
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There is no greater grief
To parents and nations
Than seeing their children's lives
Taken by war and
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In spring I go to war
To sing or to die.
What do I care for my own troubles?
Today I shatter them, laughing in pieces.
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DAyly when I do seeke and sew for peace,
And hostages doe offer for my truth:
she cruell warriour doth her selfe addresse,
to battell, and the weary war renew'th.
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Go fetch to me a pint o wine,
And fill it in a silver tassie;
That I may drink, before I go,
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"Gentle Jane was as good as gold,"
To borrow a line from Mr. Gilbert;
She hated War with a hate untold,
She was a pacifistic filbert.
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His old age fell on years of abundant harvest.
There were no earthquakes, droughts or floods.
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April 22, Earth Day, who cares?
Government's don't,
The politicians don't,
Big business don't,
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