Stress Memorial Poems

And so how can you forget
The time when your car sank like a stone
And when it felt like everything was gone
The void came back 
From...

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Just a quick notification that
A new resident was on his way
Giving  us enough time to get 
A room ready for him to stay
Not our...

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Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
The storms are raging on God’s deep—
God’s deep, not yours; be still and sleep.

Charles H. Spurgeon
(Streams in the Desert)

DAY...

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I, Too, Sing America (and did so in my diapers!)
by Michael R. Burch

I, too, served my country,
first as a tyke, then as a toddler, later...

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I travelled a distance,
The distance which is long and of miles.
I completed all the syllabus wide as sky.
I lived seven days like seven months.
I sacrificed...

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Today we close our eyes,
we stand, 
we sit
we get down on bended knee
to honor and to mourn the soldiers 
who gave their lives to keep...

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As I come to the end of the year
it's always good to take a look back
see the ups, the downs and their effects
learn from mistakes...

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PTSD

My nightmares are violent;
rifle jammed frustratingly dead,
broken stock useless as a club,
only a k-bar knife and free hand
reaching for those darting figures
leaping over my fighting...

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Shine, cats-

that which is to disdain for having life is no...

Gritted teeth,

grind'd mind,

hallowed speak,

hind benign...

She told too much about the little things,

dice-
mice-
china-
advice...

The creepy carry of...

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Today we honor those who paid our price of violence
to protect us from each other's monocultural excesses,
we remember deep respect for those who have done...

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Since time immemorial, or so I've heared,
   Mankind has struggled to tame his beard.
Was it Adam who imposed upon us this atrocious curse?
...

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It hurts very much,
When the one's you love,
Are ripped from your very life,
It makes you feel as if,
You are not up to being,
The person you...

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Oft' I have mused about what I would do should I win a ton of clams.
(Of course I'd take my wife's sage advice and avoid...

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Wading through flooded streets as hurricane rain poured
A man fell into the flow when sharp thunder roared
As a journalist reporting live from the scene
I saw...

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