Long Unknown soldiers Poems

PTSD

Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified 
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From sweat in which my body’s cloaked
My eyes...

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1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...

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At the foot of the unknown soldier
I heard them speak about the past
The generation born after the war
I heard them sing of warfare
Like children recite rhymes 
I heard their threats of war 
Even from lands...

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In similar kind the blood of violent dynasty's
remains distinct without conscience 
its empire of centuries
branded hot upon the slave born sweat 
and to dictatorship
bring the mind and soul of greed
for in the bestial mouth
ever shall...

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Oh Gettysburg, your battle flags lie charred
beneath the corps that stormed the blue abyss.
A fence of stone has marked the final yard
where vanquished legions vanished in the mist.

  As cannon fire consumed the summer...

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Sponsor: Rob Carmack

The liberation that resides within burning flames,
creates a disaster of unknown soldiers with no names.
Emancipation of nightmares turning into reality,
such trauma on the front line without any...

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Another day in paradise; where all the ladies sing;
With their honey tasting ruby lips; and their garments that do cling.
    And Jimmy sings of unknown soldiers; to the timed and the weak;
...

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Tales of heroes beyond, the normal despair of war’s plight,
Hearing of these stories, make us all quiver, in the night.
Each of them that go to fight, any battle, with all their might,

Universally, they are unknown...

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Once upon a time it was called the Great War 
Alright it wasn’t a great war said the dead
Not according to the unknown soldiers 
Blown away somewhere out there
That’s war they say  
According to...

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Do they still dig up bodies from
The killing Fields of Flanders,
Bones of those long ago 
Enticed and betrayed,
Lost generation, sold and
Slaughtered for no real cause.

Do they inter those bodies
Amongst the precise rows
Of immaculate graves,
Each topped...

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Canada

We all know you now
You have fallen at our feet
You have guarded them all with life and limb
Noble and brave
Only to fall at a cowards last call
You have...

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A nebula rises unfazed after fission:
after a fractured debate, greed crouching on
the wrinkled noses of rugged bouncers.
In remote history someone was burning itself out.

A black eye surges forward, sings an ode to
championship. Ankles swell up....

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Passchendaele 
Morning mist hung over the front line like a dirge,
as far as one could see the landscape was gray as 
a German infanterist´s uniform and the few trees 
left standing had been hit by...

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A nebula rises unfazed after fission:
after a fractured debate, greed crouching on
the wrinkled noses of rugged bouncers.
In remote history someone was burning itself out.

A black eye surges forward, sings an ode to
championship. Ankles swell up....

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by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

One Memorial Day made me consider
The many tombs to unknown soldiers,
In memoriam to the lost 
From wars then and now,
Unnamed ghosts.

Is memory of all without any names,
The memory of none?
Surely the...

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He Lay Where He Had Fallen.
Enemy Fire Had Brought Him Down.
He Knew His Life Was Over,
As He Lost All Sight and Sound.

He Knew a Peaceful Sleep,
Amidst the Raging Guns of War,
But for Him the Fight...

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In Arlington's tomb we tenderly keep,
Unknown soldiers in eternal sleep...

They fought and died for this great land,
Now God is holding them in his hand..

All Americans with precious faces,
Strong boys and men of different races..

They died...

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Struggling to put face and name together
You passed so long ago it is difficult to recall
Those bright hazel eyes that sparked of life
Dirty blonde hair as it shone in the daylight
Gone in the autumn you...

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