War Daughter Poems

Yes or no
Right or wrong
She don't know
She hasn't lived that long
What's right who's wrong
Wheres the time gone
Day or night
Today or tomorrow 
Now or then 
The...

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For Claire Christine | 10.3.211 From Mommy



They say that I'm a monster-
A Hellish sort of thing.

They claim that I am evil- 
that pain's the only...

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In this river we drown in light
A doorway blocked from me
Yet open to dry eyes

I can only hear your hands
Clutching that splintered wood as water
Rushes...

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She was five when she was set down for a talk. Don't walk alone in the dark, keys between your knuckles, don't let them take...

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I am taking a trip to an antique store,                ...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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Butterfly

Butterfly flutter by,
and make my life more joyous.
You are a song,
with your own chorus.
You are beautiful to see,
and be near, to me.

I watch you from...

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Buried so long in rules and obligations
To the earth, the roots have worked. 

Every time a raindrop falls on a petal,
It finally finds the earth
But...

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"The Cost of War through Peace"

She had spent 
some elaborate 
time 
with snakes,

learning
their ways,
yet in the very 
back of her mind,

in her memories,
she remembered
the stories...

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* This is about a scene from Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" *

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Owakuhona-oru!
The name given to me by my father,
Meaning,"if at all I go through this!"
It was during the November famine,
Of the late 1999 that I was...

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"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like...

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Drifting off I close my eyes into slumber,
I hear the voices in my head,
Calling to me in the distance.
The static of the noise is deafening.
The...

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Queen Elizabeth the Second passed
leaving the World in a mournful state.
How can this be--one who's so steadfast.
She tempered Britain's every fate.

Barely a bride on her...

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A rainbow stallion
hailed, as if a cab.
I laid a hundred bucks
under his leather saddle.
I stepped into the stirrups,
then whipped onto
his primeval back.
I’d been expecting him.
An...

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