Journey Military Poems

Not an occasion for the
Queasy or fainthearted
But the start of a journey
Into waters uncharted
Not an element of skill
Just a game of luck and chance
To throw...

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He brushes his teeth 
To start each  day
Gets the minutiae
Out of the way
Puts on his uniform
Assumes his business face
Makes the short journey
To his workplace.
He’s...

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Day Dreams

I love to have daydreams, 
about the nighttime. 
I believe I can see it all 
clearer in the light. 
I am not afraid of...

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There is a violent war that’s not in movies.
These soldiers we lost are not seen on TVs.
Friendly fire is the biggest killer of our men.
Per...

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Mystic mystical seas
Wayward soldier
 it's not yet over
over yourself is just 
being gone over
 on the rising raging seas
 your voyages just begun
Binding me and...

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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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GLORY TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR Yeshua HaMeshiach

Thousands of miles away, my drums beat with America -
the ear drums as much as my...

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I must tell you of a yarn 
About the Prince’s barn 
It sits on a hill 
Overlooking an area where there was so much kill...

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Sometimes I wish I didn’t enlist
In the Navy at so young an age
Barely seventeen
Chin clueless of the razor’s sting
But it was submarines for me
I wanted...

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Bring them Home 

Fighting a war for their country, 
Giving the best years of their life
Walking beside all their brothers, 
Yearning to be with their...

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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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None of us live forever were the words I'd often hear.
Words softly spoken from a man I held so dear.

He taught me to be brave...

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Beginning a journey with unseen ends,
Saluting your old life behind, you walk on.
Encasing your love deep in your heart,
Grasping to a single portrait in your...

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shall I wake or lie down so that my enemies shall rejoice?
Shall I let them chants victory songs afar in their hiding places?
they mock me...

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We flew through the air on a refurbished plane,
the shakes and the rattles sure gave us some pain.
But we were the ones who fortune had...

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