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Battle Poems - Poems about Battle

Battle Poems - Examples of all types of poems about battle to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for battle.
Premium Member Battle of the sky
There was not a cloud that downcast darkened day, where the sky was ablaze with the deafening roar of the engines- each man in his entitlement, but no one a winner-with each man a guilty...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, world war ii,
Form: Free verse
Would you believe
Would you believe it if I say I'm not me anymore Would you believe it if i said I died once leaving my throne Like that one song feeling like my home ain't my...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, anxiety, blessing, deep, fate,
Form: Free verse



Battles as Old as Time
Before there was time/ As we know it/ Before there was you and me/ There is, was and will be/ A great battle/ Between two brothers, friends, foes/ Who knew each other well/ Both want to be heard/ To be loved, to be...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, angel, best friend, character,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Brutal trench battle
Brutal trench battle I am only 18, a young yearning lad In battle I killed a man today, bashful does that make me lawfully bad Now living day to day, guilt-ridden and far from being gay Over the trench,...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, world war i,
Form: Rhyme
The Cry
In disbelief the battle was lost, what chicanary ,or spells were used, The Tyrant with a smug smile,decalred what he would now do, Slavery and possible death now has raised head, Fear not my peole who survive this onslaught, though...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, america, anger, betrayal, cry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Untitled
Revelation, To reveal, to uncover As the blind man having his sight healed Can finally see through the fog of confusion A dense fog blown away by the Ru^ach, Hebrew for Spirit, pneuma, in the Greek, Meaning, breath or wind,...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, bible, christian, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
Beneath The Storm and Sun
Without struggle, there is no progress No tasting sweet without the sour, No warmth of the sun, no radiant light, Without the weight of a storm and shower. Love bears its scars, and joy its pain Each breath we take,...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, beautiful, character, deep, fire,
Form: Elegy
The battle of a day along the railway
It was not early in the morning, Didn't turn off the headlights even then, All night long, piloting the freight train, Both crews are on the verge of strain. Eyes now blinking like a low-battery cellphone. Shedding the micro-sleep That came...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, grandparents, metaphor, mother, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Battle of the Bulge
A vaulter, reportedly French, thought earning a medal a cinch. Though they won’t divulge the size of his bulge, he lost by much more than an inch....Read the rest...
Categories: battle, humorous, sports,
Form: Limerick
My War With Myself
I can feel the life, That flows through my viens, But each beat of my heart, Just brings me pains, There's nothing wrong, as far as you can see, But I can't stop the want, To claw the...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, depression, mental illness, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End of September
Settled in the sighs, like a still cool Who remembers, at the end of September’s Final thoughts… Raging, wild as the wind, rain in furious drenching, Pouring over the mountains, the trees bent The stillness of Appalachia, warring with...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, storm, war, weather,
Form: Free verse
A Child's Battle
Everything I do with this child it turns out into a big fight Everything I say to this child, I struggle with him until broad daylight It’s a fight to get him in bed, it’s a fight...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, age, america, autumn, baby,
Form: Narrative
Brave your own battle, O Draupadi - 3
Take to arms, who will come ye to save? What hope from face-less faces ye have? Never plead, nor for them ever rave, From shameless what succour can ye crave? Take to arms, none will come ye to save....Read the rest...
Categories: battle, women, world,
Form: Epigram
Battle ground
If any nation will follow suit that means we have a long journey to go or ways to follow and something like blue or black or yellow or...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Life is a battle
Held tight to the asagai as I penetrated beastly jungles of Africa, for I knew my vow worthed every torturing and conscious idleling enccounterings... Eternal and fatal squashing of flesh and bones with the thought that...Read the rest...
Categories: battle, allegory, allusion, courage, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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