Beauty Military Poems

War drums beat with patriotic zeal, 
Heroic soldiers stand to defend and heal. 
International aid flows to the scene, 
As gruesome media images paint a...

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II.
Zack supposed the some safety had been found,
hopefully they could find fresh water here,
but even so, the place looked deserted,
he doubted that they’d find a...

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Long bayonet, blood channel 
Breaks suction to pull loose
After the thrust and twist so it is
Quickly ready for its next use.
Lovingly polished, honed and whet
Of...

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The morning sun’s oppressive; a nasty b*tch in heat on Rizal Avenue,
Where vendors hawk their cigarettes, baloot, and dog meat barbecue.
The jeepneys buzz the intersection...

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Loose Magic

Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose, 
and not your toes. 
Skipping rocks, 
and bubbles in the park. 

Eye contact from across the room, 
notes...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Listen up precious diamonds
Oh beautiful women of God
Like it or not we are in
God’s military force.
Things we fight for include righteousness, love,
Joy, peace, and true...

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What do you do
when you're a black cop
at a Back The Blue protest
with a Black Lives Matter
counter-protest
in front of you,
to left and right,
and possibly pursuing...

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Oh great Tavern!
Beautiful and wondrous inn
What countless prizes
Lie in wait inside!
Your vault keeps from us
Our treasured Mead, Wine, and Beer!

Oh great Mead!
Pour from the keg
Fill...

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Mirror Mirror

Do not lie. I know that you want to. 
I know that you may need to.  
I am broken, and soon…
You will be...

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There is a place I want to take you…
It is a place of quiet waters,
   In great ever-still, pools.

There are reflections in the...

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Call it my bad luck or his
But who has ever escaped the fate
And it's consequences that always endures 
"Duty calls my dear, I must obey
But...

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Ours was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical, 
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.

He was the presumably straight Vietnam veteran
southern...

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As I watch land fade in the distance
I realize what I have left
My love my wife
My son my life
She rises with me in the day...

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Since early childhood storybooks of armored knights
riding beautiful horses held my fascination,
had I lived in that era of adventurous delights 
I would have joined them...

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