Soldier Farewell Poems

It is a poet who sings
It's a writer who tells
His stories.

It is an author who expresses himself
He is a speaker of the highest esteems
Who review...

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Good Friday be with you all
A once in a year Friday
Christ has been crucified 
Every year for two thousand years
He doesn’t complain at all
Today is...

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The brave son goes off to war
     visions of victory in his eyes

   His father mouths a tender goodbye
...

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This isn’t the way it happened
But it really could have been. 
Through half closed eyes 
I can imagine the scene.
 
We’re sitting having a beer
The...

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Reserve 

When the dam breaks, 
there will be no flood. 
There will be no rushing water, 
to run from. 
It has all been drank, 
or...

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The Enlistment
David J Walker

 As if a brave character in
A sad play he marched
In heavy boots to the old bus station
Feigning courage in the face...

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I'll soon be home Mum,
The soldier said.
You be careful, son,
His mother said.
I'll be fine over there,
The soldier said.
Just you be watchful,
His mother said.
I have to...

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Squiggle a sketch of me
   Before the dawn appears 
And i move on with flocks

Salute me with the best salutation you can
 ...

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There goes the water where we find all the fish
There goes the earth where we grow all the food
There goes an ideological wish
Another tenet of...

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The hooting bird in the tree is singing a bountiful tune; the heat is spinning around in the air with a message that is clear,...

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It's time to depart 
from the clamorous harbor
as the crowd waves...
wearing faces of sorrow;
ah, dearest friend 
of my happiest years,
leaving the somber shore,
remember my affectioned...

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He was more invaluable to his country
than his own precious life,
how could a glorious and promising
youth with a gorgeous face
with a voice not made to...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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POEM " FAREWELL TO A KING " by martin gedge
( RIP NEIL PEART)

Sticks and stones and roll the bones
to the mystic rhythm of your soul
for...

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A soldier boy was calling me 
His faint whispers heard around
But sadly he was surrounded by many
Of other dying soldiers on the ground.

I stepped into...

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