Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - Activities [category]

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Airstrike:
airstrikes littering the litanies of my existence - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

Ambush.

Armistice:
The grateful armistice of sleep - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Assail.

Assassin/Assassination.

Assault.

Attack.

Battle.

Beset.

Blockade:
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Bombard:
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

The bombardments and aftermath - Mike Allen "Space War"

Brawl:
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Better to clear keep of ev'ry brawl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

Breach:
A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Camouflage.

Cease Fire:
A cease fire for even the wilder kingdom - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"

Civil War: See Civil/Civil War.

Combat.

Command.

Commandeer:
Commandeering sight like caravans - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"

Conflict.

Conquer/Conquest.

Conscript:
Conscripted to say what I shouldn't - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Conscripted to their shadows' glow - Hart Crane “The Wine Menagerie”

you're a conscript to this battlefield - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

Crusade:
The end of the crusade - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

Crusaders from hallucinatory citadels - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"

Shattered in the last crusade - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

The betrayal of the following crusade - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Defuse:
The undefused bombs our bodies hide - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Detonate:
Acid imbalances that detonate - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"

Set to detonate into an unknown future - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"

The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Duel:
In life's darkening duel - Gavin Ewart "To Margo"

Mind and will fought the cold duel - H.J. Hope "The Patrol"

Would await them at the duelling ground - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"

The duel of the wounded night - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)

Enlist:
Mysteriously enlisted in a V formation of Canadian geese - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Enlists a fresh haunting - Luther Hughes "My Mother, My Mother"

Feint:
The oracular feint of a joke - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

Feud.

Fight/Fought.

Flank.

Foment:
Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"

Fortify:
Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Fortified by wisdom's splendid armor - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

And fortify your self in your decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

To outgrow a fortified spiral - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"

Fray.

Genocide:
My genocides folded into my wallet - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

Grapple.

Harry:
Now but a memory to bless and harry me - John Freeman "The Chair"

Hijack:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"

Hijacked the Doppler radar screen - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"

Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"

Hit.

Insurrection:
The insurrection of a flea - Maxwell Bodenheim "Inevitable"

Full of hot surges of insurrection - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"

Sorrows quell our insurrection - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

Invade/Invasion.

Kick:
The ribs of March are kicking through - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

When he kicks at the sunbeams - Furnley Maurice "Whom the Gods Love"

Kicking stones across the temple yard - Keith Taylor "Aegina: After School"

Kicked through seas of woe - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Maraud:
Marauding mouse and rebellious rat - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

March.

Marshal:
Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Martial:
No queen of martial might - Shaemas OSheel "Roma Mater Sempaeterna"

Melee:
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Mission.

Muster:
Truth's bands will be mustered - Rev. J.G. Adams "The Young Soldier" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

Mustered from the fevered sky - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

A muster of pale stars - Lucie Brock-Broido "Basic Poem in a Basic Tongue"

Mutiny:
Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Or thy lips in mutiny - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Chastening"

The mutiny of Memory's gloom - "The Ocean Wanderer"

Onslaught:
Lashed by an onslaught of echoes - Mary Jo Bang "Part of a Larger Picture"

Pacify:
So many attempts at pacifying this planet - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

Parry:
That no mortal hand can parry - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"

Patrol.

Punch.

Raid:
The treasure trove she raided while we dreamed - Duane Ackerson "Driving Across Idaho"

A raid on the inarticulate - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Meets the demons on their raid - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Reconnaissance:
Genetic reconnaissance at birth - fahima ife "our general banality"

Recruit:
Must recruit exhausted power - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"

Limitless recruits from Fancy's pack - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"

Recruited into the legions of evil - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"

Rout.

Sabotage:
Mixing kindness and sabotage - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

Their favorite verb is sabotage - Monica de la Torre "The Script"

Sally:
Swift with satire as with sally - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

My world too has its sallies and withdrawals - Mei Yao-ch'en "Shih-hou Pointed Out to Me That From Ancient Times There Had Never Been a Poem on the Subject of Lice, and Urged Me to Try Writing One" transl. by Burton Watson

Make brave sallies at the stars - Lola Ridge "Amy Lowell"

Salute.

Scout:
While the rat is on the scout - William Cowper "The Cricket"

Scrimmage:
Scrimmaging the hordes of Hell - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"

Shoot/Shot.

Siege/Besiege.

Skirmish:
The muffled skirmish of the rain - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"

Slash.

Smite.

Spar:
Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Stab.

Strafe:
Strafed by the Milky Way - Leonard Cohen "The Lists"

Ducks strafing the unfrozen pools - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Surrender.

Surveillance:
Surveillance feeds on death - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Convert surveillance into invasion - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"

Tournament:
All the achieving of their tournament - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"

Tourney:
Self with self in secret tourney - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Clash in tourney on the least of points - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Truce.

Violence/Violent.

Volley:
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"

Wallop:
Crops walloped in their places of birth - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

War.


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