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War poems dealing with military training, battle, battlefield realities, death in battle, the Trojan War, the Iraq war, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and civilian suffering.
This war poetry / military poetry is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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• CAMOUFLAGE • A MANTRA: rifle range, shooting, target practice. • THIS IS A PISTOL: military training, training for war, memories of war, remembering war. • THE DRAFTING OF ODYSSEUS: draftee. • THE DEATH OF PATROCLUS: Patroclus, death in battle. • THE DEATH OF ACHILLES: Achilles, dying in battle, death experience (how it feels to die). • WOUNDED, NOT YET DEAD: battlefield casualties, graphic battlefield horror, horror of battlefield, wounded warrior. • WAVES: war is over. • THE DEATH OF NESTOR: death of a veteran, Nestor. • HIROSHIMA: Hiroshima (annual ceremony of remembrance). • NAGASAKI: Nagasaki (destruction of). • LUMBERJACKED CITIES: Second World War, World War Two, Dresden (destruction of), Tokyo (firebombing of), Hiroshima (destruction of), Nagasaki (destruction of). • SEX METAL: , anti-war poem, Iraq war, war casualty (burnt child). • A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A WAR: America brings democracy to Iraq, anti-war poem, cherry blossom season Japan, Iraq war, Japan cherry blossom season, spring (cherry blossom season in Japan). |
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