Within the framework of current discourse studies and narrative theory , the paper explores the representation of the Six-Day War 1967 and its tragic developments in postcolonial Arabic poetry to underline the response of a generation of poets who challenge the hegemonic discourses advocated by tyrannical Arab regimes presenting a tale of defeat and humiliation the Arab people seem reluctant to hear. Repudiating the war and its political motives and resisting the dehistoricizing process which attempts to obscure the war and its ramifications, Arab poets such as Nizar Qabbani , Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and others promote a discourse of disclosure which aims to keep the painful memory of the defeat alive in the Arab collective consciousness. In an attempt to confront a structure of political myths and cultural superstitions deployed by the official state media about the superiority of the Arab armies and the possibility of obliterating the enemy, these poets introduce counter- discourses interrogating narratives perpetuated by the regimes and the establishments which sustained the war. Charged with the need to bear witness and responsibility for war, the poetic discourse, studied in this paper, constitutes the first extensive narratives of trauma and defeat in modern Arabic literature. As a suppressed tradition of poetic texts production representing the consciousness of the Arab intellectual, this discourse defends the individual against the tyranny and coercion practiced by the regimes. Due to its challenge of the hegemonic narratives deployed by the defeated regimes, this poetic discourse was censored and excluded from school curricula and Arab press. Denouncing narratives which enhance the rationale of amnesia and political systems which conspire to obscure the defeat, this poetic discourse underlines the crippling impact of the 1967 war on the collective memory of a nation shattered by recurrent defeats and cursed by dictatorial regimes.