#poems about war

[words-and-coffee]

What else to do when the unspeakable comes. What to burn when it doesn’t. Somewhere in a world that didn’t quite end, a woman like me is foraging for that which failed to kill her.

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On , Upon Learning That Some Korean War Refugees Used Partially Detonated Napalm Canisters as Cooking Fuel

#Franny Choi #The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On #Upon Learning That Some Korean War Refugees Used Partially Detonated Napalm Canisters as Cooking Fuel #quote #quotes #poetry #poetry excerpt #poem excerpt #poem quote #poem quotes #poetry quote #poetry quotes #war #war poetry #poems about war

[solvaaya]

The Migrant's Reply by Indran Amirthanayagam. Text ID under cut.

[Text ID: Our eyes are dry. Our breath needs washing. What next? You are putting up a wall on your Southern flank? What an irony. The country that accepts refugees does not want us. We qualify. We have scars and our host governments hunted

at least some of us. The rest fled in fear. Gangs do not spare even the children. White vans took away our uncles, our cousins. Do you think they have been made into plowshares? Ay, what are you saying? Too easy. Too easy to wear our hearts

in these words, in slings, on our faces, furrowed, perplexed.]

#literature #poetry #poems #quotes #desi poetry #desi poets #indian poets #indian poetry #tamil poetry #tamil poems #indran amirthanayagam #poems about war #war poetry

[thepoetrycurator]

Excerpt from the poem "We'll Not Die in Paris" by Natalka Bilotserkivets, translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky.

From IN THE HOUR OF WAR: POETRY FROM UKRAINE edited by Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky.

#Natalka Bilotserkivets #Dzvinia Orlowsky #Carolyn Forche #Ilya Kaminsky #Ukraine #Ukraine War #War Poetry #war poem #poems about war #Ukrainian Poetry #Ukrainian Poet #Poetry #Poem #Poet

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is #a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good #personal #“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry #that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign #also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg #i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant #parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice #this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah #i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li #i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive #so they have to find temporary housing around the area #last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis #during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences #and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too? #this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either. #this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first #reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!” #newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know. #why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed

[elysianymph]

james is very fascinated by muggle cameras. lily and regulus notice this of course and lily pitches an idea: to get james a camera for his birthday. they save up the money they need for a higher quality camera and wrap it up in a fancy box and present it to him on his birthday. the smile james gives them is worth every penny they spent.

they expected the obsession that came after. james took his camera everywhere, always taking pictures, not just of the the scenery or himself, but of his friends and family and most importantly of lily and regulus. what they didn't expect was that james had all of their photos printed and compiled them into an album, decorated it and drew little hearts and stars and flowers on it and wrote down little notes of what had happened the day the photos were taken. he revealed this album to them on their anniversary as a shared gift.

some of the many pictures james has taken of his lovers:

#regulus paints his lovers #lily writes poems about their beauty and love #and james photographs them #in a world where all three of them die in the first war these pieces are all harry has left #fuck i made it sad #remember the album hagrid gives harry in the first movie? yeah thats the album james made for them #loving someone so much you want to immortalize their beauty and existence <\3 #im gonna go cry now #jegulily #jegulus #jily #regulily #james potter #lily evans #regulus black #marauders #marauders era

[padawansuggest]

Mace: *dragging Kenobi and Vos out of the slam poetry night by their tunic collars and stops Tholme and Jinn from leaving them behind* No, you heard our rules after last week’s incident, they’ve been banned!

Qui-Gon: *ready to argue* What in the galaxy could my sweet baby padawan have done to get kicked out?

Tholme: I must admit, despite Jinn’s willful ignorance, I understand that mine could get banned, but he never mentioned it so I would like to know what he did.

Mace: Obi-Wan wrote a poem about a galaxy wide war that gave seventeen people True Visions and I had a shatterpoint migraine till last night. So for him it’s either me or him in that room and I’m the host so it’s me.

Qui-Gon: *taking a sheepish Obi-Wan into his arms for a pity cuddle cause that poem had led to like four straight days of council sessions and an enslaved Dathomiri child being found in a senator’s house on Naboo* To be fair. Obi-Wan had some good points.

Tholme: I’m scared to ask. What did mine do?

Mace: He didn’t write a poem so he went up to the mic and started licking it. It was the most disgusting noise I ever heard. If he gets near a mic I might have to drop kick him. Safer for him out here.

Tholme: *deep sigh of sadness* Yeah that sounds like something he’d do.

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #incorrect star wars quotes #master tholme #qui gon jinn #quinlan vos #Obi’s cursed poem was about a spider that made his master take a nap :) #yes he also had a five minute seizure after the poem was done

[poemsonmars]

and it always comes back

to your willingness

to destroy yourself

for the slightest chance

that someone might

care enough to stop you.

-mars

#6/22/23 #the ones about mental health #mars.poetry #my poetry #original poem #lgbt poetry #original poetry #sad poetry #poets on tumblr #poetscommunity #spilled ink #spilled poetry #prose poetry #button poetry #perhaps i'm projecting onto fictional d&d characters again. #this one's about karna solara from the ravening war #but also! #alicent hightower

[news4dzhozhar]

Alot happened in the past few days so I'm playing catchup here.

#egypt #rafah #palestine #UK #go fuck yourself #protest for palestine #iof draft #this was NEVER about Hamas #propaganda kills #israeli lies #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸 #genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #weaponizing language #revenge poems? are they serious? #easter in Jerusalem

[simmyfrobby]

Sidnur Crosbur poem if you please

— We Were All Odysseus in Those Days, Amorak Huey

#all my hockey poems are about war #we dont have to talk about it #sidney crosby #hockey poems

[maeo-png]

Simon Petrikov, Healing, Self-love, and a smidge more of Greek mythology if you really squint

“Ulysses” poem excerpt by Alfred Tennyson // Fionna and Cake Episode 10 “Cheers” // “Exitlude” by The Killers // “Cheers” // “Talk To Me” by cavetown // “a poem traveled down my arm” by Alice Walker // “Cheers” // “Ulysses” book by James Joyce

#UGH i love the Ulysses poem specifically #it’s only an excerpt but all of it is totally Simon #it’s about growing old but still feeling that passion for adventure that you did when you strove with gods #and that you aren’t what you were before but that which you are you are. mwah mwah. i love it sm #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #adventure time spoilers #simon petrikov #web weave #anyway ulysses is actually the roman equivalent of Odysseus #a hero renowned for his intelligence and cleverness. but also his love. #his dedicated myth (the odyssey. duh) is all about him on his way home to see his wife after the Trojan war #he also built his own palace. by himself iirc #and was the king of ithaca #what i’m saying is simon has most similar qualities with Odysseus/Ulysses than he does with any other Greek myth figure #(oh wow maeo ur so cool) thank u brackets person omg #txt

[reachthezeneth]

I follow you

#lestappen #charles leclerc #max verstappen #richard siken #war of the foxes #i posted this bc i keep seeing people post it with other rs poems but I'm like !!!! pls !! the poem he's talking about!!!!! #hiding in each otherrrrrr plssss #this whole passage! this whole poem! this whole book!

[navysealt4t]

first official day of napowrimo!!! april 1st prompt is: poem that recounts the plot of a novel you haven't read in a while. (warning for themes of war, bombing, & past abuse)

overnight in a bomb shelter

if the world ends this week  please brush my hair  i won’t ask you to be gentle  let me walk barefoot  farther away than the eye can see  in weather cold or warm  i may bite you  sting and curse you  don’t come too close  feed me and bathe me  that’s all i ask   but bombs scream overhead  planes shriek with their engines  sirens blare from the streets  in a murky shelter  buried beneath the mud  of your childhood home  your calloused hands are soft  dropping a blanket ‘round my shoulders  reading a book in the dark  my ears ring and my hands shake  you shield me with your palms  you promise to teach me to sew  to read and write  to run and climb  in moments in the dark  where the world might end  where all i smell is mold  you treat me like a child  who has never known love  i treat you like a woman  who has never known love  and for a moment  the world feels right  as the bombs scream overhead  ‘cause the world might end tonight

#napowrimo #napowrimo 2024 #blue’s writing #poetry #poem #tw war mention #tw bomb mention #tw past abuse #just for tw warnings <3 #the book this is based off is 'the war that saved my life' by kimberly bradley :] #first introduction to found family trope that i like. actually processed was found family #hence the 'child woman' not 'daughter mother' #<333 oh man ada and susan <3 #i love this book sm i needed to write about it #highly rec u read it. rlly good and complex #also ada is disabled and still living her life fuck yeah. god i love ada sm. just like me fr #also yes im posting this 3 am on april 1st. early bird gets the worm or whatever

[poetsofthestars]

*fall*

a rush of wind moving past

empty space

where *he* should be

where he always was

but never will be again

because he fell

and he has no wings to rise back up

he may be my angel but God denied him his wings

and he *fell*

and i am alone

empty space i never felt before

quite i never used to mind

a hole in my heart to never be filled

and yet

they all say to move on

how can i just pass over the pain

maybe i learn to push it down

but not yet

because i still see him fall

every night he falls

and i can never catch him

#poets of the stars #original poetry #poetry #original poem #poet alioth 🌙 #original poetry 🌙 #acd johnlock #johnlock angst #tfp #except op doesnt know what that is #or anything about sherlock actually #you can blame this on a 5am angst war #with #poet nakshi 🌠

[i-spilled-my-soup]

hello!!! idk if this might be too late but pls could you share your will and nico asklepious au plot......?... very interested with morally grey will.... thank you for your service

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asklepios au is basically just ancient greece au, somewhat historical fiction?., set post greek-roman war, will and nico become friends and then nico dies and then will brings him back to life and then will dies and then becomes immortal is the basic plot

morally grey will is that he attempts to cheat death and basically commits blasphemy, also that he may be willing to bring people back to life for his personal gain, not out of benevolence

nico's issue is that he internalizes that his character is unnecessary and his sole use is as a tool for war

so its good-at-everything-but-fighting x good-at-nothing-but-fighting

#my guy has no piety #all these ancient greek poems are about war #and all the pjo books are about war #so i think thats the only thing i can write a #bout it #asklepios au #soup ask

[battlinghurricanes]

Hektor is irreplaceable to Troy, he is their greatest warrior and last defense, he’s the hinge on which Troy’s survival hangs, and he hates this. He is invaluable when, in truth, he wants nothing more than to be replaceable. Hektor holds bitterness and resentment for how heavily his city relies on him. Yes, he will stop at nothing to defend them, yes, he is unyielding and relentless at the cost of his own health, but he doesn’t want it to be that way. Even as he overextends himself time and time again, Hektor is aware that it takes a heavy toll on him, after all, he feels the cost more sharply than anyone. He knows it’s unsustainable, but every time, he finds it more important to sustain Troy than to sustain himself. Even so, his earnest desires are elsewhere. Hektor would rather stay in bed with Andromache when he wakes up exhausted, he’d rather take some time to let his wounds heal and not fight through blistering pain, he’d rather stay in the stay inside the city and look after Scamandrius, guiding him as he grows, than anything else.

When Hektor returns to Troy to ask Hecuba to make an offering to Athena, he refuses to remain- three times. Clearly, Hektor will not let himself rest because he leaves Troy, but clearly, he still longs to rest because he pauses. He takes a moment with Andromache and Scamandrius because he wants to, so desperately, and when he sees his baby, Hektor beams. He stops to comfort his beloved Andromache in her grief, and he takes his helmet off to bounce Scamandrius in his arms. For a moment he sets aside those things he needs to fight so he can be with them. What he believes he must do is not the same as what he wants to do. Hektor leaves, but Hektor lingers.

But he leaves because he is needed and deep in his heart he begrudges that. His own insistent drive to push himself to his limits would be difficult enough to temper on its own, but Troy’s desperate dependence on him on top of that is damning. How could they rely on him so heavily and yet have no one that might take his place if he can’t go on? And he’s never allowed to forget. Repeatedly they call him the lone defense of Troy, so much that he feels the weight of it, so much that they call his infant son ‘Astyanax’- Lord of the City- because of it and how dare they, how dare they, how dare they?

How dare they do that to him when he’s still so young? How dare they do that to Hektor, who already can’t help but relentlessly expend himself at every turn for them, and then they reward him by hitching their anxious hopes and expectations on his precious little son...?

And it makes such an elegant contrast with Achilles. Achilles, the Achaeans’ greatest warrior, irreplaceable on the battlefield, who adores and thrives on that fact. Achilles who, by his nature, is so proud and entitled that he’ll stop fighting and let them die to remind the Achaeans just how desperately they need him. As opposed to Hektor, who loathes being irreplaceable, but by his nature, is so stubborn and dogged that he will never stop fighting, at the cost of everything.

#he'd rather be taming horses #hektor #hector of troy #the iliad #trojan war #my writing #i feel a lot of things about my headcanon that hektor hates the name astyanax #the way the iliad Directly states they call him that bc hektor is troys lone defense. and that hektor Never calls him that. #'lord of the city'. something about its so sad and grim #of course this is just my interpretation #i just preferred writing this w/o a ton of caveats #this is kinda a poem #and kinda from his pov #so i dont mean to excuse his own mistakes and flaws. but i think he feels this way about it #every day i skirt closer to the themes i want to address in my full on hektor character analysis essay

[martianbugsbunny]

I love Wayne Visser for accidentally writing the most Kalluzeb-coded poems I've ever seen:

It's really giving Bahryn to me. Gentle embraces in the midst of pain especially; there are so many moments in the Honorable Ones (besides the obvious life-sparing one) when Zeb is clearly putting the fact that Kallus is injured ahead of the fact that he's an enemy, and he's not so rough with him as you might expect. And of course it was a night of anguish for both of them, as they recounted the most scarring moments of their lives side-by-side with their enemy, in the freezing cold, but there was the contrast of hope, of understanding, just like the contrasts in the poem.

This is giving post-Zero Hour. A whole lot. Courage blossoms in the midst of fear—I mean come on, Kallus just turned his back on his entire life up to this point to join a rebellion that may or may not succeed, but he still did it. And now he and Zeb are no longer mortal rivals, but friends and compatriots, and whatever healing either of them has yet to do can be done together, as two wounded warriors fighting for a better future.

This is just...very Kalluzeb. This is them. Their lives during the Rebellion, when they're not always together on the same missions; their lives after the Rebellion, when they've found peace and they have to adjust to not being at war anymore; their lives together at all knowing they used to be enemies, but also that they were somehow pulled together by the Ashla for better things.

The poem is called Kismet. And how could they believe that it took anything less than an act of fate to bring them together, with all the history they had? How much more blessed could their union be, if destiny itself worked on their behalf?

#kalluzeb #garazeb orrelios #zeb #alexsandr kallus #star wars #Star Wars rebels #Wayne visser #kismet #this guy just writes poems that give kalluzeb so hard #I mean his love poetry as a whole really gets me #but the stuff that gives kalluzeb is in an entire other realm of me loving it #also there are lines in a lot of his work that make for really good fic titles in case any of you all were looking for inspiration #poetry #please guys I'm begging you be as obsessed with this as I am #be insane about it with me #martianbugsbunny ships