Diversion
O rat
the plate sat empty
full of air alone
the little prince this day
proclaimed a war
Poems on the topic: war
Poems on the topic “war” on Poets.by.
Birnam Wood
the whole difference
between a wood and an army
is love
they that laugh and do nothing
only respect the grave
razing all the strongholds
giving the land a massacre in the fields
but none of the men I write about
burn like candles
Things fall apart
where rivals play-act a war
and we all give the given talk
where they know things
from the king’s own mouth
I trust an atheistic drunk
to account for hope
Arms dealer
I lose count of all
the late-night finds
a ladder to the heart
a good red tune
a plot to make war appear
greater than money
Fulmination
the received spit
of news in the mouth
War Moon
Life preserver
who is carrying us to war
to ward off news
I have stopped up ears
as the first act of hostility
the land is sunk
only the captain found a finite bed
Harvester
an absence of red in the war
is a white lie
thin as corn
the bodies of the poor
Warmongers: six haiku
a half-moon
over the maps of several
poor countries
that sullen bastard will go at midnight
take the child and dance it
in his arms
guarded by his horse
the soldier is a flying army
in his head
going to be married
so the rape is hushed up
mouths receive the sacrament
whose bread
would pay for a war
blood on the back stairs
not capable of bearing children
Propagandist
I bled ink for this war
people saw me sing and dance
out of key out of night
the fruit of my endeavors
for all for God for the least
wrong king
Outsider
where all discourse of war
where a man can command a committee
I would have my own rose
and an onion to suck
it is strange to see how jealous
of me they are
Sandstone
my stone is well-bred
serves well in any
injury or sport
and will go to bed
pretty as all the news
of war and sand
Following orders
the pen sat hiring ships to go to war
in a pretty hand
and is now very discrete
more than me
I am among other things a man
that history missed
my victory over doubt
was killed and taken
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