Beachhead
the navy captain
brought some shells
to be with him in the desert
he deserves a little ring of life
and how convenient to have
a road to elsewhere leave him here
Poems on the topic: war
Poems on the topic “war” on Poets.by.
Planetary news
I look about to see
if I could hope
we live still
in a boreal poem
but now like a sudden letter
coming from a soldier
Anger junkie
angry at being here
like a child of war
after my floor fell on me
after a quiet doubt will not do
my new-strung self
angry at this one good wing
Securing the border
war and the state
begin with a fence
proceed to condemn
a man unheard
we fell from one word
such as trouble or shame
bring an aster to trial
and have a rose bled
War-time
in war-time the master of money
must give the poor
some other stomach
but the new contrivance
of king and sandwich
broke down into sand
our sin matters little
fear is the only wife now
with whom I lie
Civvies
a night vision
of things after the war
other places call
out of uniform
First blood
blood in the night
they say nothing about it to her
take dinner in a room beset
with delicate pictures
where horses painted
like shelves for war
pass with great calmness
into the devil’s wheat
Taking the field
with nothing else
we give the general a field
for the soldiers to lie in
like played cards
Warmonger
In bed, the war and I
agree to wed—
a different drink for my wick.
I gain entertainment, a trench,
and some talk of head fanatic,
no honor—a hat
pulled down.
War correspondence
I found a war
every morning,
a falling out, a field
men killed
friends and brothers for,
stopped like a seal
in a well.
Peace plan
We rose early for bullets;
one flew off.
The mouth of the gun
should beg to eat
and learn all languages,
not smoke
and be so illiterate
as to welcome absence.
Post-traumatic
The war
found a root
at my supper table—
no manners but
a cruel music.
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