Karl Shapiro War Poems

  • 1.
    It stops the town we come through. Workers raise
    Their oily arms in good salute and grin.
    Kids scream as at a circus. Business men
    Glance hopefully and go their measured way.
    ...
  • 2.
    The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers,
    The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn,
    From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs,
    Each to his kind of service comes to worship Him.
    ...
  • 3.
    Your landscape sickens with a dry disease
    Even in May, Virginia, and your sweet pines
    Like Frenchmen runted in a hundred wars
    Are of a childâ??s height in these battlefields.
    ...
  • 4.
    Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets
    The bundles of letters are dumped on the docks and beaches,
    And all that is dear to the personal conscious reaches
    Around us again like filings around iron magnets,
    ...
  • 5.
    O hideous little bat, the size of snot,
    With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,
    To populate the stinking cat you walk
    The promontory of the dead manâ??s nose,
    ...
Total 5 War Poems by Karl Shapiro

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We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
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With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
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