Best Casualty Poems

L o v e ~ a crippled nightingale
b u r n i n g in bronze tears
of tornadoes,
limping and writhing,
screaming for release,
but
what if I am the mistress
             of glass-cut dreams,
crowned with 
 razor-edged...

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A
person
at times can
feel like they are
a casualty 
of cruelty, at least
in some small way or other.
Some attacked my early writing.
Their scathing reviews I can’t forget,
yet I persisted doing what I do.
Not letting oneself feel defeated is
the only way to continue -   but
your cruelty,...

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Casualty of your cruelty and lack of empathy
Is the beginning of your karma journey
What you tossed into the universe
Comes back full force as blessing or curse

Walking in another's shoes
Feeling for them as you do for you
Empathy a symphony of humanity
Put an end to selfish silver...

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Every veteran is a casualty
Whether it’s in body, mind or spirit.
Because War is the worst obscenity,
Ruining both General and Private.
Until War becomes an anachronism, 
We’ll  feel  always threatened by:  anarchy,
Fundamentalism, imperialism,
Terrorism,  and social entropy.
So we fight because were patriotic,
Or to secure...

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Yesterday was so long ago
In the past I've always been an *******
Should have lived my life differently
Now it's just to late
Should I be dead?
When is the end?
Living now with with these dripping tears
I'm empty here without you
All alone I spend my days
Rolling my head and...

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Screams of doubt, sorrow
Clouds of unrest, anxiety, darkness
Torturing my soul, my dreams
Gone to a place, unknown
In the center of this horror

There were hallucinations
Illusions within the nightmare
Of this shadowed room
In the center of my feelings
War was raging within me

Cries of guilt and grief
Destroying my inner peace
Reminding...

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Thud, skid, shriek... bash!
Subject to a crash,
From audience to casualty,
Paying a futile penalty,  

This unexpected political revolt,
Instantaneously uprises the search for whom to fault,
Alerting of authorities and people through news,
Help on its way as chaos builds-up and fear brews,

Shock and panic spreads, time becomes...

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They found him outside the hospital,
Conveniently.

How he managed to get there
All his brain was blown away now,

There he stood in the emergency room
Pronouncing simply and forevermore 'Uh.'

The heart wrenching lament of
A defeated weekend warrior....

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The officer’s whistle opened the door,
the pain of mortar did greet the damned
and I did nap with death in no man’s land.

In cold of night the stretcher did wake
 from peace to hell and burning pain.
These eyes will see the stars no more,
no comrades smile...

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I fall into unknown reasons
I lay wanting,needing
Convolution,soul sucked dry
Aphasia,alone within
A battered shell,augmental decay
Life slowly passes away
Debilitated to my dismay
An accidental tragedy has
lost the lives of many
Contumaciosly
The musk from last nights indulgence
still lingers and it accuses me
I have debased the family tree
Through my lost cognizance
The pain...

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Casualty of Loss

Drifting in murky waters
shadows lengthening
with sorrow’s darkness blight.
Cobwebbed remembrances
take flight, taking with it 
prism’s life-light

Shades of gloom
mist yonder shores
obscuring vision, while
leeching into the life source
stagnating the living waters.

Cruel fate laps brutally
against the sands of time
while memories smother
and are swept away
on death borne
callus waves

Lifeboat...

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Memorize the motor vehicle my dearest
Dropping me near the trees of your home
When I was about to kiss your lips
And your dad came by
We felt embarrassed
When I drove off

He went with him you
A gift I had gotten in my hands and never to give away
And...

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She was only eighteen. The streets made her mean.
She looked like a bucket of bones.
The street people say she was'nt always this way.
She came from a happy home.

The hump on her back said she did too much crack.
Her brain was melting away.
Wherever she'd been, that...

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Who knows who are the casualties of war? 
Are they the wounded, maimed, and all the dead?
Who counts the orphans, widows, those displaced?
The untold truth, a light on this can shed

I also am a casualty of war
My soul is wounded by the grief I see
The...

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Truth as a bride left beside the altar.
Before things even start, she speaks alone,
“Face your bullies upfront or you are done.
Your words waste breath; they have already won.”

Truth invited friends her future to share,
But Cassandra's seer words coldly spurned,
Friends felt her imagination too dark,
Shaking heads...

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