Best Pearl Harbor Poems

P  Propelled into the war after tora, tora, tora.
E  Escalation arrives in Oahu, paradise explodes.
A  Amorous and hula skirts set aflame at once.
R  Reveal of a takeover plan, pot shots extreme.
L  Lucid nightmare lit with oil and screams.

H  Hear...

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Beneath the ash its morals face defeat
as segregation separates is corps.
The scars outline a union incomplete
and wounds define its failure to restore.
Though rally calls have filled a Nation’s heart
and motivation fueled its vast machine,
supremacy held unity apart
and nothing but conceit lay in between.
But still a...

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Just sitting there mighty 
The ships and the people.
Flying American
Flags and the eagle.
Just sitting in harbor
That Sunday morn,
Oblivious to battle
And coming forlorn.

Drinking their coffee
And eating their breakfast
Things were going
Right along with their wishes
When suddenly a soldier
Did speak up and say,
"They're some blips on the radar
And...

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Remembering Pearl Harbor
By Franklin Price
12/7/2015

Remembering Pearl Harbor
It was nineteen forty one
The signs were staring at us
The holocaust begun

Fanatics taking over
From sea to shining sea
The masses were ignoring
The war that was to be

It was early in the morning
The bombers flying in
Sinking ships and killing
The fighting to...

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Bury me not
In an old church plot
Back in my hometown
No, bury me
Beneath the sea
Where my Navy mates went down
Please take me back
To that day of attack
Pearl Harbor in 41
I’d like my remains
With all of those names
When my time is finally done
I fought beside
So many who...

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During the time of our sleep
When not even mice would make sounds
The planes they did creep
Hunting their targets like savage hounds
And when they struck
The ground it rumbled
There was no time to duck
As the ships crumbled
Men and women died that day
Which made many families blue
They had...

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We All Know Pearl Harbor
And the Devastation There.
The Men and Women That We Lost,
Was Very Hard to Bear.

We Were Taken by Surprise,
So Many Things Went Wrong.
But the Memories Will Live,
Even Though It's Been So Long.

There Are Those That Did Survive,
To Live Another Day,
To Wonder How...

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MAY DAY! MAY DAY!
                            They made the call.
          ...

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Pearl Harbor

Bury me not
In an old church plot
Back in my hometown
No, bury me
Beneath the sea
Where my Navy mates went down
Please take me back
To that day of attack
Pearl Harbor in 41
I’d like my remains
With all of those names
When my time is finally done
I fought beside
So many...

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Sunday, December the seventh,
In the year of 1941,
While most of Hawaii still slept, 
Came the planes of the Rising Sun.

Waves of bombers and fighters flew, 
From the decks of the Japanese ships.
While our planes were still on the ground, 
"Banzai" was spoken from their lips.

The...

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A morning surprise,
Many soldiers sadly died.
Through the morning mist,
  The torrents of planes pierce through,
  Attempting to destroy us....

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Remember Pearl Harbor
Seventy-eight Years Ago
By Franklin Price
12/07/2019

Seventy-eight years ago,
At the rising of the sun
Came the day of infamy; 
Our present times begun

The sleeping giant awakened,
To become the greatest power 
Would take four years and many lives
To have our finest hour

A country made for freedom,
For each...

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A heedless world implodes beneath the weight
and all the West lies smoldering in flames.
And nay a soul finds shelter from the hate
as dire evil seeks intended aims.
The despot waves of fire and iron roll
upon whomever lies within his path.
The gravity of war has taken toll
and...

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As solitude neglects the Harbor door
the Heavens fill with vengeance from the sky,
and all below can only watch them soar
for crippled decks were useless to defy.
The devastation rendered from the clouds
destroyed the birds of war that sat below.
They turned to ash beneath the fiery shrouds
thus,...

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    Pearl Harbor Day was today
      feels like it’s gone away

    Emotions it once ignited
      no longer invited  

    Determination it long ago steeled
 ...

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