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Peace War Poems

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

Chaotic War


Flinging silence to the shore, the sea rises
Painting the sand with shells galore,
Faded on the skies above, the warmth of light
Softly calling, revealing the wonders...

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Categories: war, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,

After reading Luigi Pirandello’s War

I believe that in paradise
everything is perfect, everything is nice.
Hell, there, even souls from Russia and the Ukraine
can celebrate newfound friendship over a glass of...

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Categories: war, 12th grade, dark, death,

Where is the Peace?

Where is Peace?

When will the world learn?
When?
When will the humanity learn?
When?
Blood ocean everywhere
Blood, everywhere
West and East
East and West
Don’t find peace and love
Why?
There is a murderous...

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Categories: fate, humanity, war,

Ode to the Vietnam Warrior

In verdant jungles thick with fate,
Where shadows danced at war’s cruel gate,
They marched, they soared, they held the line,
With courage fierce and hearts divine.

The call...

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Categories: war, death, endurance, history, remember,

Denmark's war

Denmark’s war


When the Germans occupied Denmark during World War 2 the old king was not dethroned 
Every morning, he was seen riding in the park
Once,...

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Categories: war, absence, appreciation, art,

A Winter Night's Poem

Sitting by a fire on a winter night –
longing to see daylight –
shivering, freezing, in the icy cold –
how long can my patience hold?

“We’ll be...

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Categories: war, child, dark, death, fire,

Deity of Warfare

What great menace pulls us to destruction
What warmonger! What hatred loving beast!
Who savages the innocence of children
The miracle of flowers and serenity of peace

Earth’s wonders...

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Categories: allegory, conflict, earth, war,

Dichotomy

Dichotomy

humans are strange creatures
we want peace but can’t
avoid war
...

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Categories: war,

Fire, Fires, Ceasefire

Fire, fire, countless fires
Fire of hate that nobody admires
Fire that hurts, maims and kills and innocent victims
Fire that burns, cremates and destroys many buildings
Fire that...

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Categories: war, betrayal, color, fire, power,

The Planners' Peace

Smoke curls where laughter once lived,
a street of bricks turned brittle dust,
where a child once dreamed of growing wings.

The air carries a silence loud with...

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Categories: war, angst, grave, grief, happiness,

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hrothulf and Hrothgar, uncle and nephew,
for a long time kept a careful peace together
after...

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Categories: war, music, peace, poetry, poets,

The sorrow of war

Intoxicated by the joy of peace,

His mood was lifted to the fragrant cloud.

Half running, he returned to the home street.

His burdened feet could barely touch...

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Categories: war, betrayal, sad love, sorrow,

consecration

In the world we live in,
Where humanity's power reigns supreme,
Adam's plight often goes unseen.
Men, women, and children caught in the web of strife,
Oppressed by those...

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Categories: war, 9th grade,

Vellupillai Prabahakaran: The True Tamil Tiger

Beneath the trees, a tale of a Tamil revolutionary,
As in history of tamils, the people viewed him as a legendary luminary.
'Thalaivar' the title he was...

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Categories: dedication, history, tamil, war,

A New Years Wish for East the Beast and the West Unblessed

  Whether whiskey or water
    What should it matter

  The point is we oughta
    be toasting each...

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Categories: war, hope, new year, peace,