Soldier Flower Poems

Safety, comfort, food and offspring
Is that all they need ? Could be!
Doggies bark, the birdies sing
Feeling happy, they can’t see
Anything that spreads disturbance
Evil species of...

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I remembered you
looking at the nose ring ---
of my dear darling...

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Solstice perennial deed
Vivid blush ingrain seed
Reverence of times past
Pledges for battles cast

Lulling heads, utmost grave
Reverence for services gave
Abloom on war-torn fields
Long ago sacrifice yields

Acclaimed soldier's...

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Flowers
bloom in sun
and in mauve shade
So, take heart brave soldiers
Truth lives!...

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Sunflower for a soldier

An old woman comes to a soldier 
They speak the same language
But now separated by a monster
‘You must have these sunflower seeds
Put...

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Like rivers of blood so flooding,
These poppies stay ever budding…
Stalks look like tired soldiers, nodding,
Stems stall like soldiers scaffolding!

Petals, like pleasing gun layers, peep,
Stamens like...

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sunflowers stand watch
like Pretorian Guards near
Westminster Castle
Queen admires royal gardens
on her morning stroll-about

written August 6, 2021

FIRST PLACE WINNER
Brian Strand 4 Line Poetry Contest
August 12, 2021...

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Four petals
Blood red
Saying goodbye
Honoring lost souls
Warriors killed 
Long before their time...

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field of red poppies
shrine-like aura of petals
salute the fallen













Composed: January 24, 2021...

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war there are
bomb, bomb, bomb blast
death texture in the hand of superpower

the soldier, the lover
none does not know of its result
at the state of dire

his...

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a prayer
for the fallen
~ poppies sway



AP: 2nd place 2020

Posted on June 24, 2019...

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Purple irises lapping up sunlight
No regard for tomorrow
Basking in the moment.

Standing in soldier-like rows, salute sun;
Violet blue uniforms
Lint less in summer’s breeze.
...

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In a muddy flanders field 
A lonely flower blooms red
Tears of falling rain for those,
Who were left as dead.

They came as boys ,died as men,
Heroes...

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Take me back to Paris,
but not for tea.
If only to get lost...
in Dimitri's 2nd Waltz.

It's the New Year,
and a time to come in-done,
we'll be dancin'...

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It was such a long time ago,
but I still remember the day
she came to live with us,
my aunt, a young widow.
Everybody called her Rosy,
maybe because...

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