Winter Military Poems

I awake from a distant dream....

Thinking of all I'd seen
Remembering what was in my mind's eye
Such sad, sad thoughts of a time gone by

I remember...

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Yamaguchi Seishi haiku translations

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt.
? Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Ceaseless chaos?
ice floes clash
in the Soya straits.
? Yamaguchi...

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"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 1)



Liberation
of a sort
head out the car window
hair blowin’ in the breeze
I can hear the Crickets...

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The snow falls red
Amidst Novembers smoking breeze
Memories pass as bleeding trees
Soldiers, heroes, all who fell
Amidst the broiling troubled shells
Their broken limbs
And punctured skins
Scream fear into...

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Winter weeps in shallow graves
                    ...

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He’s called the Eulogizer
He reluctantly accepts this moniker as our elder
A name for which he feels disdain 
Since it conjures memories of unspeakable pain
 
He's...

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False Warrior


Cold spear of winter’s harbinger
pierces the heart of summer
leaving her wounded beauty
bleeding out upon the landscape.

Autumn – cruel mercenary force
despoiling the scent of bounty
laying...

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Oh lord! Please answer to my questions

 Why is there sorrow everywhere?


Why men gain superiority


While women shiver sheathless in the utter winter?


They say children are...

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Living the dream with bouts of insomnia.                  ...

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A legion of soldiers right by my side,
 Ready for battle, we shall nor run nor hide;
 Courage and honor our vows we keep,
 Searching...

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Is there any possibility to remain alive?
I scrutinized around but they all appeared same
Young boys with an expression of terror
‘Is anybody there?!’ I The coldness...

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Vultures Feed  (Quatern, 1 May 2014)

The vultures fed upon the plains
As one tribe enslaved another
All they left were the dry remains
Husbands, fathers, sons and...

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