Long Firefight Poems

It’s a highway nightmare, or it should be,
but no one’s afraid (too much)
and the road just thunders and hummmms
on and on and on and on
under that greedy summer sun.

All of their guns are cocked and...

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Spontaneous and unannounced
They eschew the simmer
Only to emerge with the rage of a boil
These tempestuous thoughts
Dance brazen atop amber blue flames
They luxuriate inside the walls of my mind
Finding blossom in my impuissant fury
A tiresome firefight...

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When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran,
my shyness showed,
yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly
spoke the words, "The war never goes away."
All these humanity destroying wars never cease,
soldier's names, faces,...

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The Zombies got together with our Dragon on one fall Day.
They said that they wanted to come over for Halloween to play.
At least, that’s what, the Zombies, to Dragon, definitely, did say.
But ulterior motives were...

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I was born in the African horn,
In a village, that was always warn torn,
Tired of my life, on a gloomy morn,
I took that fateful decision alone.

Without telling my loving family,
I left them behind, sleeping happily,
I...

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Chaos:


One year in 1975 on 1136 cooper street, with its autumn breeze with greenish brown leaves blowing off the trees like feathers off a table and making crackling noises, plus the young children running up...

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Stuck inside of a nightmare
lookin' like I might just slight tear
myself from the light there right
barely a knife couldn't share me a slice of the right hare
even if I slice up the bright hair
this rave...

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Mommy I love you!
Mommy I really do!
I came to be on this earth to spend time with you.
Mommy, I can hear your voice and oh it's so sweet!
I move around in your womb to the...

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The Third Row
(A Medal of Honor Ceremony Held Nov 16, 2010)

There in the third row
Invited to see
The Medal of Honor
Presented to me
There sat the parents 
Of soldiers who died
Out in a far field
With me by...

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Blood was following his stumble
In the snow it was clear to see
The wound was deep and open
He must rest at one of next few trees

The pain was numbing his senses
He pushed cold snow onto the...

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You…my friend…my only friend
Broken, broken again
Torn to shreds by a different end
Cast away into a distant land
To meditate, to become strong willed
To pick up the scattered fragments of hope left behind
Headstrong, the voices call it
A...

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On a clear and bright Sunday

At the end of May

When the sky is so true

Like a beautiful painting in blue

The white fluffy clouds you rarely see

Forming shapes ethereal

The sun shines bright

Basking in its own limelight

Making...

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smeltering a soveriegnty sent forth from the center of 2 + 2
and branding beliefs with the benefits of interstellar iron,
smoke waving wakefully from flesh feeling fresh from a firefight with Freedom,
unlatching the lock of Liberty...

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Struggling parents skipping meals so their children
can eat,
good Samaritans pulling someone from a burning
vehicle by a highway or street.
Police, military, some fallen in a firefight saving
other's lives,
firefighters going into an inferno rescuing people
out of a...

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I'm a suspect, a suspect in this mystery
but this case is incomplete
This isn't how it's supposed to be
this: a foreign word but I need to know, need to know this
what is this
Is the stranger me...

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Fear

A dark night and all seems well 
When out of nowhere, the bright burst
This stirs so much to tell
People running to the berm
Rifles firing, mortars thumping and people screaming
  
I go my area and...

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temperature rising
fire storm raging inside
her soul skin is scalded 

blisters sizzle her mind
parsimony lost in translation
thoughts on autopilot and overdrive
emotions opposing each other
and her restless Self

seek and she will find
pot of gold 
charcoal incinerator
catatonic cauldron
roasted...

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When every woman that you meet,
every meal that you eat,
every forbidden sweet treat,
still reminds you of...her.
When moonlight at midnight,
is an oversight,
your feelings airtight,
in your body a firefight,
your thoughts still drift to...her.
When the air that you...

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War
Enlist list
Signed sheets
Quick and easy
It's all so cheesy

Come home soon, please
Chinook ride overseas
She sends a letter
I've felt better
Worthless

Mortars
Night raids
Humanitarian aid
A spade's a spade
All this just to get paid

Improvised Explosive Device
Repeating "love will suffice"
Injured soldier
Never colder
Scared

Firefight
White...

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I cried out to no reply
people need to realise
they only cared after
"always" is a lie

now their care is projected
it's clear to see, detected,
but when needed rejected,
shown now and respected

what good is a doctor when you...

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For the torn,
for the meek.
Toward the storm,
toward the beast.

For the scorned,
for the weak.
Wounded warriors,
for the free.

In the dirt,
make my bed.
Firefight,
overhead.

Live on hope,
consume hate.
Rusted spoon,
rusted plate.

On this stage,
in my role.
Home one day,
never whole.

For this goal,
in the...

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