Loud and Wild

The power of the written word…
  the spoken word supreme

Ink to recommission,
  what only breath can glean

Soldiers line up back to back,
  letters ranked and filed

The command to march just given once
   —its war chant loud and wild

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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