Best Enlistment Poems

Cotton Bootie Enlistment
             by Odin Roark

How innocent the booties of birth
If only their cast remembrance
Might remain but nostalgia
 
Instead

Their bronze symbolism
Merely encases a once simple smile
A semblance of purity
Lost ever so soon

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The Enlistment
David J Walker

 As if a brave character in
A sad play he marched
In heavy boots to the old bus station
Feigning courage in the face of
Every uncertainty

Counting on the five fears
a soldier tries to hide
from anyone who asks why

His life is not his own
Maybe he'll...

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