Soldier Daughter Poems

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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He went to war each morn
Armed with thermos and lunch pail
Gearldine wasn’t his firstborn
As a girl – just a tomboy with a pigtail

He knew her...

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EPISTLE TO DAUGHTER OF A SOLDIER

When all hopes fade,

I alone carry my pain,

There may be so many colours,
 But I'm coloured in blood red stain

I'm...

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Welcome home the family has missed you                        Dad come down now    ...

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I can picture how perfect you'll be, even though I haven't seen your face. I know Through you God will show us Grace. You'll be...

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"Tell Me Something Beautiful"



You could write me 
something beautiful
to leave me 
when you are not here

Someone told me 
the dead don’t speak 
they just listen...

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Her face bathed in tears of mirth; her soldier father back from deployment. 



Date written: 03/22/2020...

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Our  house is abuzz
With Me, Bella and Jess 
And Mummy is all delight
“Dad’s coming home tonight! “

The Cake has been made
The table has been...

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The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,  
for tonight we revel...

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Immigrant of past he took to the soil like a neophyte soldier 
protecting each tomato and basil plant with his bare hands 
he showed no...

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WINNING THE WAR 

In tough action of war crawls the soldier
across the thorny ground riddled with mine,
charges with loaded gun on the shoulder,
revenge and rage...

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My darling daughter, where do I begin?
I missed so much of your growing up, 
Though that, I know is not my sin, 
Yet, you have...

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"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"




In Theta waves 
tumbling to 
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia...

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The Wall Of Lost Souls Of Vietnam
Have you ever seen the wall? That is the Vietnam Wall.
I have seen this wall, 
I have touched the...

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"SUPERSEDURE" 
(Part 2 - Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections")


In her heart there pounds a drum
it starts off faint, then buzzes to
crescendo, a...

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