Poems on the topic: war

Poems on the topic “war” on Poets.by.

CheerfulDave Bonta

How the war ended

The war I mourn died yesterday of spotted fever. We sat late disputing at the burial.
AnxiousDave Bonta

War correspondent

War is a dizziness, desire is business. My ink will be water till night.
SadDave Bonta

Dispatch from the front

This day is ash. The war continues, and the sea takes a body that was a person in the land. The shore sang, a messenger from tomorrow.
AngryDave Bonta

Apparatchik

At war with my kind in the office— he who is a hat, who is a tooth.
AngryDave Bonta

Mercantilism

The war, the exchange and the hangman, constituting a commonwealth, make a profit on a cheap piece of star.
SadDave Bonta

Old soldier

I miss the war. All the officers and friends of my past sang songs and then went away. And night came to wash me clean.
AngryDave Bonta

Conscript

To go to war is to muster and shut up, to exchange cheer for a cell. I stay drunk, a thing for finishing. (No hope is to go.)
AnxiousDave Bonta

Against nature

Unseasonable light: war, arson, a city.
SadDave Bonta

Armistice

Twenty-five ships, and we could not make an end of Monday. On land, we met with castles. Our rest was troubled. I mourn the death of my bed.
AnxiousDave Bonta

Sic Transit

All alone, the table— a plain thing of perfect service— fell into neglect. Ignorant how things go, I fear war, not time.
CheerfulDave Bonta

Peacenik

I commission the navy: get a dolphin drunk and marry her in place of war. Resolve again to see home and bed.
ContemplativeDave Bonta

Self-Reflection

Me: my extreme business. I see my father, that wit, the war with chance. My lord Me, we turn.

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