Only I can create peace!

I wrote this poem as a challenge for my Creative Writing class. My teacher wanted us to write a poem and include a song. I wrote about the London Blitz, and use the song Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.

A soldier wrote a poem on a postcard to his lover before he was killed in Afghanistan.

War reigns perpetual. I've tried to make this so it's still relevant in decades to come, unfortunately.

Short drabble. Triggers for suicide, PTSD

A young man, wounded on a battlefield.

The promise of a soldier to the land. An acknowledgement of the sacrifices and costs of war.

You can't always see the conflict. A short poetry piece on war.

Is it more cowardly to fight?

A poem about war.

She is kept alive by luck and driven by revenge towards those who took away everything she knew.

Oh dear, our little war machine seems to have developed quite the enormous appetite. Whatever shall we do?

A very small poem about war that may be added to/edited in the future. Also published on under the alias FlameBringerX

Recent ideas put into my head. Why not let the people of fictionpress decide.

Code of a warrior, the way a warrior should live and die by

Dangling from the sky, the American flag resembles a dead human body. Heaven refuses to answer this one simple question, why!

Fading in and out of the spotlight until we perish. Now is the perfect time to go ahead and embrace the night. Our new normal is chaos, a huge heat wave.

A brief poem detailing Boudica's Rebellion against Rome and The Roman Empire, following the rebellion from the Massacre of Camulodunum to the Battle of Watling Street.

A crude retelling of the tragedy in Nice, France

Painless transition, a predestined path. Pandora's box, a black and white issue, this racial divide.

An original found poem taken from an excerpt of "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind, documenting a fictional war.

Never too far gone, one tall hanging tree. Televised crucifixion, haunting dreaded notion. Echoes of pure hatred and discrimination, racism.

Why all this fighting...continue reading

Poem. Darker subject material. Bonus points to those who understand what it's referring to.

This poem is about the world's current bad condition. Eventually, it will be judgment day and Jesus' return.