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Premium MemberThe Story of My Life

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My life’s story is a lonely tale only my faith enabled strung. 
I moved too much to belong anywhere or keep a friendship knit.
The hurts as an army brat continued when grown to render me stung.
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Categories: army brat, faith, family, friendship, loneliness,
Form: Quintain (English)

Army Brat

...Son of a soldier lost his friendship ties
From thousands of miles for crunchy fries

Gun toys replaced the ones that he had lost
Talking twister of blended foreign frost

In the arms of almight...
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Categories: army brat, memorial,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



We the Army Brat

...We the army Brat
Two year here ,
 three years there,
 We the army kids have to go everywhere. 

We always have to leave & 
make new friend ,
But that make us stronger 
In the end .
Our life ...
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Categories: army brat, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCold Springs

...I was an army-brat town boy
of ten when we moved to the country.
I recall arriving in a village
called Cold Springs.
My dad bought
a century-old house
with five and a half acres.
But i...
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Categories: army brat, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Oh Brother Jim

...Oh brother
You are my caring brother by the way
So near and dear
So good to have you back close again
After all these years
I can rely on you for sound advice
Now I finally think you are smarte...
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Categories: army brat, appreciation, brother, career,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMy Nineteen-Seventies

...I was newly thirteen when the seventies took me underwing,
then married and grown when they creased inside time’s fold.

I was not attracted to those scholastic or athletic,
but to those ...
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Categories: army brat, emotions, growing up, music,
Form: Bio

Friendships Do Sink

...Drowning in labels
not Aesop Fables
not normal retard
like being slapped hard
born an army brat
Lady was the cat
without hardly any hair
they would laugh they would stare
they called me hippi...
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Categories: army brat, childhood, military,
Form: Couplet

From Germany

...Pennsylvania
is my home for now
born in Germany
an army brat than
and traveled a lot

Dad drank too much
and Mom left him
up the East Coast
he followed her

Mom raised us
on her own
work...
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Categories: army brat, birth, childhood,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Its Just Who I Am

...Im not your normal girl
I so ain't perfect
I can be complicated
And here let me tell you....

I might cuddle here or there
I even might just not want to be touched
Read a book while you watch ...
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Categories: army brat, self,
Form: Blank verse

Army Barmy

...Our Jack was a soldier of cavalry fame,
a squaddie then took our Beryl to tame.
Albie's good sense kept him from this game
while David, though Sapper, gave admin some pain.

Now me in the mi...
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Categories: army brat, career, family,
Form: Rhyme

Son of a Gun

...I’ve never been to war
or claimed the old kings shilling.
Though born and bred to Army life
I knew the need for killing.

The civi’ kids thought those like me,
were gypsies in their town,
but ...
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Categories: army brat, growing up, identity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Army Brat

...An army brat, a pain indeed,
never destined to succeed,
from place to place,
from camp to camp,
with soldier family I did tramp.

Two years at each, and every school,
how could I know the gold...
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Categories: army brat, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Drifter

...Now Jack was a man who had seen much
as an army brat he travelled the world
never really making friends at each stop
he slipped into the role of soldier

Soon was made up to major in the Mps
be...
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Categories: army brat, adventure,
Form: Verse

Friends For Life

...A cat, snoozing on my bed, black as night.
Curled around, his tale in his face. 
Eyes flicker open, revealing eyes like brilliant beryl.
A soft meow issues from him, implying that he want's a scratch...
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Categories: army brat, animals, friendship, growing up,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things