Graveyard
...Graveyard
Everyday on the way to my way to my clinic, I cross a huge graveyard, supposed to be the biggest one in Long Island. A Christian graveyard.
Thousands are resting peacefully in these...
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Categories:
common soldier, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Wilson
...For Dennis Bruce Wilson of Thame
as a hobby poetry was hid game
Famed for his WWIi elegy
'A Common Soldier' for all to see...
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Categories:
common soldier, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Common Soldier
...The common soldier
Once motherland I remember well often with a patina
of unbecoming sentimentality. I was born there, once
birthplace is a magnet it never loses its charismatic power
even thou...
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Categories:
common soldier, abuse, allusion, anxiety, art,
Form: Blank verse
Defunct Soldier
...Defunct Soldier
When I met him he was an homeless old soldier, one who has fought
every war in the last hundred years, cannon, fodder for big business
and those who say that our society needs ...
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Categories:
common soldier, anger, war,
Form: Blank verse
The Old Soldier
...this was sent to me and i feel it should be shared.
The Old Soldier
He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past. ...
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Categories:
common soldier, war, war, old, old,
Form: Rhyme