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



Date written: 03/22/2020...

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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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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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When I was just a wee young thing 
I was taught life's lesson well    
Ere instead of childhood revelry 
mine would be...

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I am a daughter of an army soldier,
I am stronger and bolder than all other children.
I have seen fathers give their children goodbye kisses every...

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With a huge geometry of bones and ribs
my father stands amidst us,
like an age-old iron pillar,
high durable, tensile and unbrittle
he is, the lonesome cantilever.

Though I...

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Published by Poetry Explosion of PA
In Loving Memory of my Dad, Peter J. Mariotti
He left this world on May 9, 2011.  I miss him...

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It was a dry, dusty day when I saw the wheelbarrow, with long handles made of dark wood. 
The wheel is struggling as it carries...

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