The Enemy by Bettina Wegner (translated from German by Agnes Stein)

The moon had a courtyard

into which they shoved cannons.

The sun had a light

of which they made torches.

The field was filled with corn

of which they made scrap.

The night had a coat

from which they cut camouflage.

The man had a fist

of which they made bombs.

The woman had a lap

which they named a tavern.

The children had clear vision

they knew their enemy

and made use of everything.

This poem contains two stanzas of six lines each and one of three at the end. There is no rhyme to the poem (which may be because it was translated from another language), but there is a definite structure to the poem. Every second line of the first two stanzas starts with "The ___ had a ___", and then the next line goes on to describe how that particular thing was used. However, it was not used in a a literal sense - the entire poem is comprised of metaphors, which obviously could not be true but get the point across that everything and anything was used to the advantage of whoever the subject of the story is. It sounds to me like the story is talking about soldiers who are occupying a town. There is also personification used, such as in the first lines of the first and second stanzas, where objects are referred to as possessing something. This helps to make the metaphors used understandable to the reader.