Soldier Happy Birthday Poems

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

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How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated...

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Real Men

Bigger than life, 
the man I married, 
is/was everything and more, 
I thought before, 
I said I do. 

He took care of his family,...

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Numbers

Life is measured. 
How much can you do?
Whimsical ideas, 
dashed to the rocks...
in favor of older methods, sure of return.

Courage beyond position, 
ambition to prove...

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What Party Are You?

Huh?
Does it matter?
Who I voted for? 
I am alive, 
so it was legal. 
I have not been dead, 
for thirty years. 
Surely...

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Christmas Princess

I picked you up early, 
we went to your friends. 
I watched as they all…
watched you. 
You laugh lightly, 
and bring joy in your...

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Dreams of the Nutcracker

When I am older, 
I will sweep you off your feet. 
I will take you from here, 
2 a land far away....

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No Joke

Highway 99, 
goes no where… 
I tell you. 
I have been there 
and back. 

You have to go, 
but you can not find it....

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My Umbrella

It was the reason
for everything,
needed, 
that had any value. 

It started with rain, 
on a Sunday morning. 
It moved to the car,
that would not...

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The Song of Silent Rage

The car was not empty. 
There were women, 
there were children,… small children.
None, could hurt anyone…as they were soft and tore...

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Soldier

March off to war, 
protect the ones you love…
and even the ones you do not…
At what cost?

Sweet memories you will not have, 
of all the...

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Forgotten Soldier

Service to my family, 
those I love with my whole heart. 
Service to my country, 
the nation that I hold dear.
Service to my God,...

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Homemade Hero

A length of fabric, 
a skein of yarn, 
a piece of lace, 
a zipper,
a button,
a trace…

Two eyes, a nose, 
a simple happy face…

Here goes!

A...

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Happy Birthday Daddy 

 Well tomorrow is your birthday
 It's been a long, long time
 I was 21 when you left
 Your Canadian's age younger...

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Happy Birthday mom, another year older.
More wiser, you are my soldier.

All the years, along the way.
You continue to love me come what may.

I don't know...

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