Soldier Addiction Poems

Dare me to diagnose my condition?
 
I'm diagnosed with depression
Or rather does depression have me
Even the sad rain cries for me
Or do I cry because of...

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Breaking the chains-
Required lots of pain, 
Starting from young age.

Mom died when I was 16
Dad passed when I was 23.
Their demons danced together,
over 25 years...

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This soldier of the streets makes me not wanna feel
Emotional joyride of things that aren't even real
Hardcore makes me lose my mind
When feeling anything now...

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Some Pro's and Con's of being Virtually Connected to Reality poetic verses

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
even countless less well...

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He went to war each morn
Armed with thermos and lunch pail
Gearldine wasn’t his firstborn
As a girl – just a tomboy with a pigtail

He knew her...

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I look out there  

With a curious stare 

An informative world conference experience  

Should be attended if serious  

No one can be...

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Uncle soldier Sammie
is too flashback	    far Saigon 
The bad memory withdrawals 
are too ganja gun smoke strong
So he pumps up the blame...

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This is the home of the heartless 
Corporate concrete
Where you become captive 
To the same things you thought set you free
Where solutions to society's problems...

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S'more sprawling poppycock

Chock·a·block discombobulated poem
for your reading pleasure
dashed off ad hoc
my final literary endeavor before
hour hand affixed
to intricately carved cuckoo clock
displaying carved leaves, birds,
deer heads...

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He said he’d leave, so I’d grieve give into his heave
and hoeing for him, like fat to trim; work till dim
the nights. I- so bleak...

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After God's own heart I ran the race 
Focusing on enduring to the end 
With the eyes of my heart opened seeing God high and...

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Forgotten Soldier

Service to my family, 
those I love with my whole heart. 
Service to my country, 
the nation that I hold dear.
Service to my God,...

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Homemade Hero

A length of fabric, 
a skein of yarn, 
a piece of lace, 
a zipper,
a button,
a trace…

Two eyes, a nose, 
a simple happy face…

Here goes!

A...

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When your life is a battlefield
and your mind is full of scars.
When you get knocked down
but still reach for the stars.
When your heart is an...

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The Tadpole,
That Never Became a Frog
Written: By Tom Wright
2006

I have tried putting myself in another man’s shoes,
To experience the pain about their love for brews.

The...

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