Civvy Poems - Poems about Civvy

...NOT A VETERAN I’m not an Army veteran, it’s a cap that doesn’t fit. I’m a guy that wore the green yes, but I don’t feel I did my bit. I’ve never faced the enemy, stared down the barrel of a gun.......

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...Cried out in pain, needed to heal, Nothing from God did I feel. Demobbed from the army, In a terrible state, Dumped in civvy street, Where I had no mates. Heart as cold as bayonet steel, Me, ......

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...Where are you now? Where have all the soldiers gone? Been a long time asking everyone. Troops and Groups of strong young men, All passed out as fighting troops and then? We went in as young ......

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...************* Having never studied poetry, but composed and wrote it most of my adult life, in the Army, commissions for lovesick, homesick mates. In civvy street, mainly f......

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...As the Soldiers marched past proudly Beneath the clear blue sky Arms locked out, Thumbs pressed down Arms swinging shoulder high A cheering crowd had lined the ro......

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...I was a Soldier I was a soldier many years ago, How time flies, where did it go. To many places I was deployed, Never too long before I was sent, To fix things electrical was my bent. I saw n......

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...There he stood alone and cold in the dark bare streets Dressed in rags from hand me downs, & carrier bags on his feet The hustle of the daily grind constantly passes by But still he stands & never......

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