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War Sonnet Poems

These War Sonnet poems are examples of Sonnet poems about War. These are the best examples of Sonnet War poems written by international poets.


Premium Member INSECTS
We see them as an enemy to kill
Cos they eat crops and spread disease galore.
But soon their numbers we’ll reduce to nil.
Using new pesticides we’ll...

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Categories: nature,



Gethsemane Experience
Like a pearl falling into the Pacific, he felt lost.
His human nature shrank and shattered like an autumn leaf.
Blood poured into sweat. Into his core,...

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Categories: jesus,

America, what time is love?
I looked at my watch and stared at my phone,
checking Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific,
but coast to coast, it's just a combat zone,
they've got me down,...

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Categories: america, love, time, war,

Premium Member What Beauty Is
What beauty is (to the geometrist),
     is the shape of the Golden Ratio!
Beauty is courage, the defiant fist
   ...

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Categories: beauty, forgiveness, mythology, paris,

Premium Member Though London Burns
And, never cede shall be the battle cry
as London braces ‘neath a screaming tide.
Though flames from hell kept falling from the sky, 
tenacity was not...

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Categories: world war ii,



Premium Member Dunkirk
 ~ When allies falter from his Blitzkrieg force,
the blood of British sons infuse the sand.
They pray their brothers front the Channel’s course
for they have...

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Categories: world war ii,

What Are These Words
What are these words that rage with hate and war
That scream with bullets’ searing, lethal roar
That slash with livid flames the midnight sky
And with a...

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Categories: anger, conflict, confusion, death,

Existential Crisis
I thought, like a net unknotted, puzzles would be solved.
With the question, 'Who am I? What's the purpose of my life?
I was wrong. Like the...

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Categories: conflict, confusion, death, life,

Premium Member Wake Up
Thus, from the ashes, vile regimes evolve
to fill a void and seed a hungry wave.
A pulpit rage lets common sense dissolve 
as propaganda feeds us...

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Categories: confusion, corruption, world war

a sonnet
A sonnet 

In Gaza, Hamas has tunnels under Gaza 
in New York, the Jews have built tunnels deep underground for a reason many find eccentric
I...

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Categories: sonnet, 7th grade, abuse, allusion,

free palestine
israel america playing soccer 
with beheaded palestinian face
back to stone age
world is on stand
arab military parliament to nuke attacking nations
such is israel palestine war
free palestine

israel...

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Categories: conflict, evil, freedom, grave,

Why wars are fought
Some wars are fought for wealth and some are fought for greed, in both cases the innocent shall bleed

Some wars are fought out of hatred,...

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Categories: anger, conflict, courage, death,

Premium Member A Sheltering Light at Ironwood
The sun sets leaping in fierce golden shafts
As days shift shorter with Winter’s warning
We seek emblazoned fires from the chilled drafts
That glaze windows from iced...

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Categories: beauty, earth, imagery, introspection,

The Thirteen Folds of Old Glory
Each fold recalls our first thirteen territories—
   The first for the soldier’s life and those they defend.
The second for their hopes of heavenly...

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Categories: freedom, memorial, patriotic, political,

Premium Member War - a Dead Loss
How many soldiers lie silent and dead
How many mothers and wives live in dread
How many daughters and sons cry in bed
How many fathers have tears...

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Categories: war,


Book: Shattered Sighs