War Crystalline Poems

Mist

White opaque curtains of air blocking my vision
Obscurity was the order of the that day...

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Brave young men, missions of laughter

          Returnees ~ wounded ever after...

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War's canvass: pockmarked earth, blood-stained sky
  
   Paint youths white as ghosts -- retch and die...

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Gates of hell flew open today
Now war and terror is here to stay





Picture Chosen Number 8.

Written 28th April 2019

For Crystal Clear Poetry Contest.

Sponsored by Joseph...

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When I go home damn
Its really quiet 
Never thought I'd find this amount of white noise
In the pitch black face silence 
As I flip scenarios...

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the picture hangs on the wall showing my fallen friends. its time for mess but I don't even want to get out of my cot...

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DAMNABLE DEATH OF A DAISY
Can the sky cry?
Can the sun have fun?
Can the stars have scars?
And can I have a heaviness in my heart lifted?
Because...

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Incognizant of kestrel’s war cry …
Deer mouse exhales a peaceful sigh...

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With his arms on knees steadies his lance
Searching for breath gives him a glance...

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Yellow jacket blows in the breeze
Boatswains mates guide with expertise



By Robb A. Kopp...

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Get up ! Get up! empty eyes met mine,
no more in him..the spark divine...

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Handshakes,kisses and fond farewell
with destiny's tears ,no thing could quell

Explosives  whistled all around
where red petals now colour the ground

Lives sacrificed for us,now free
lie quiet...

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Dear God, protect them and bring them back
Our brave men and women from Iraq...

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One chrysanthamum lay on his grave
Thus did fortune favour the brave!...

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Explosives whistled all around,
where red petals now colour the ground.

Crystalline 18...

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