Long Mortars Poems
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Angels of Mercy
Angles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
mortars, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
A Fire In the Heart of Our Darknes
we sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed
his voice was quiet still
passion and regret burned in his eyes
when he...
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Categories:
mortars, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Memories of the Sea
Ah the lovely seasdie
Ah the lovely seaside
Childhood scents
Salt air, Salty bitter memories
Jacques had turned just seven
He dreamed to walk along the seashore
He dreamed to see the seagulls sore overhead
He most of all dreamed to leave...
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Categories:
mortars, caregiving, confusion, death, sea, war,
Form:
Light Verse
France II
Let hope rely upon your Maginot
for swift retort has choked your Gallic might.
It crushed your will beneath its undertow
as diligence receded in the fight.
Your flailing forces teeter on defeat
and any hint of truce shall be...
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Categories:
mortars, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Defenses
These are poems about war and defenses.
Defenses
by Michael R. Burch
Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white picket fences.
Now whom they guard and how they guard,
the good Lord...
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Categories:
mortars, conflict, evil, fear, prejudice, race, violence, war,
Form:
Quatrain
Privilege
Privilege
by Michael R. Burch
This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who has written eloquently about the horror and absurdity of war in "Lessons for a Barren Population."
No, I will never know
what you saw...
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Categories:
mortars, courage, hero, patriotic, thank you, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
Free Cee Gum and Gunfire
GUM AND GUNFIRE
I SIT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE COMFORTABLY EATING A MANGO WITH OREO COOKIES
while a father fights off fearfulness fervently in a far off forest deep in Da Nang
Where even the trees have fangs
And...
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Categories:
mortars, angst, brother, brother,
Form:
Free verse
The Last March of the Piss Ants
Walking through the guarded gate and onto my children’s school grounds, the impact of the
80mm and 120mm mortars crashing to earth caused me to pause. When you couple this with
the repetitive thrumming of...
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Categories:
mortars, dedication, peace, sad, warschool, world, me, school,
Form:
Narrative
Medinah's Circle
A CFO chased cheaper resumes
into my severance of free days.
Safe in winter with my kids and Blue’s Clues,
til Spring brought out the perks of community dues.
Dawned smiles a first morning’s remark
nurtured those long talks into...
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Categories:
mortars, best friend, dedication, friendship, girlfriend, judgement, passion,
Form:
Narrative
Reflections of a Mortal Light
Peaceful are the water lilies in flower
The ripples of contentment belong to the fish
and quiet is the grass that has healed this scene.
Lone tree crater is a ghost from the past
and it is here where...
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Categories:
mortars, war, death, war, cry, death, earth, life,
Form:
Free verse
Traveling Soldier Got My Mind On the Lord
I'm just a wayward soldier, traveling
I'm just a wayward soldier, traveling
from fields and lands open meadows and farms
cities and towns country's and..
traveling soldier who's got your back up against the walls
Traveling soldier who's got...
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Categories:
mortars, appreciation, caregiving, devotion, god, humanity, jesus, military,
Form:
Free verse
An Awful Harvest
An Awful Harvest
I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The...
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Categories:
mortars, adventure, military, nature,
Form:
Verse
The Spider Arachnid
Covered in the jungles evergreen thickets, beneath
Stones and mortars refuge lays an old Mayan crypt,
And on it is written an ancient curse, dare not enter
Mortal men, or forsake thy living soul, as tributes
Offering at...
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Categories:
mortars, beauty, evil, fantasy, gothic, halloween, holiday, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
The Alamo
An earthen gray memorial stands alone against
A rugged desert landscape, built by the mortal
Hands of the faithful.
No bells do ring, in the churches steeple, but in the
Heart of Texas it's sounding message can never
Be silenced,...
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Categories:
mortars, america, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Sniper
SNIPER
A yell “ man down;” then zing, pock, pock,
pock, pock against the sandbag revetment.
Down on the plain is a man in a spider hole,
he is well hidden and armed well enough,
smokeless powder provides no clues.
Binoculars...
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Categories:
mortars, war,
Form:
Free verse
New Guinea Kokoda Campaign
New Guinea Kokoda Campaign
In 1942 the Japs appeared, took all the islands north.
Our troops were mainly school boys and for New Guinea bound.
13,000 Japs landed, climbed up Kokoda and came forth.
As Yanks, Macarthur's...
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Categories:
mortars, adventure, school, men, old, men, old, river,
Form:
Ballade
A Recipe For Peace
Peace is though difficult
Yet not impossible to uphold,
All the kings of the states
Must remain self-concerned,
Without poking noses
Into the affairs of others,
Curbing cupidity
To expand the territories,
Subjugate the nations of the world,
Enforce the...
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Categories:
mortars, peaceearth, men,
Form:
I do not know?
Home, Where Heart Finds Its Ease
O to have endless stretch ‘pon earth to roam,
Return to rest, to roost, to my sweet home.
Sweet home, forever a mighty magnet
To go back to an ever open gate,
Its awe and allure never once on...
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Categories:
mortars, home,
Form:
Ode
Little Brown Feet
On quiet days in mid autumn
When sun and clouds play ‘peek-a-boo’
Somber thoughts linger in crisp air
Of some other time and place where
Harmattan winds in December create
A hazy fog of dust and...
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Categories:
mortars, childhood, loss, warautumn, december, sun, time,
Form:
Free verse
Kokoda 1942 See-Saw Battle
Kokoda 1942 See-saw battle
Red blood was a running, emerald green saw it pour,
In the mountains of Kokoda, death on the see-saw,
400 fifteen to eighteen year old boys knew the score,
Just ole .303 rifles to stop...
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Categories:
mortars, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Pride
The old house stands still.
Rot has set in.
A flying termite caught in the webs of a dead spider, sway to the shrill of a ceiling fan.
All things sway.
Dreams rise and suffocate in the mouldering mortars
Falling...
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Categories:
mortars, allegory, corruption, culture, home, political, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
The Soldiers War
THE SOLDIERS’ WAR (A tribute)
The burning sand, the scorching sun
In the distance the sound of a gun.
Slow moving vehicles crawl at snails pace
Heading gingerly towards some safe place.
Far from home, in the blistering heat
They...
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Categories:
mortars, appreciation, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Force That Placed Us Here Cannot Be Trusted
At dinner, Zach asks
about our nation's history, wars.
I say We're taking on everyone, one at a time.
First Britain, then Britain again: "He was the surly English pluck, and
there is...
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Categories:
mortars, america, death, fire, history, time, trust, war,
Form:
Verse
Gods of War
Another day, another life,
Another victim to eternal strife.
To the altar of hate and vice,
Lay them down in sacrifice.
Ideals, dreams, wishes, hopes,
We teach our children of life’s ropes.
So one day they won’t think twice,
As we lay...
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Categories:
mortars, conflict, death, military, soldier, war,
Form:
Lyric
Lament For Ukraine
They suddenly barged in their tanks and trucks
Covered in various armaments of war.
Their vehicles droned, piercing the silence,
Cutting deep wounds in that fertile land,
And desecrating the once sacred ground.
Rockets flew like meteors across the skies;
Bullets...
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Categories:
mortars, 10th grade, death, grief, military, patriotic, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse